Zion, not the first city of David, sorry to all you worship music nuts out there, but Zion National Park in South Western Utah. Don’t go. It’s too beautiful, and the buses make it too easy to see some of the cool stuff, and people die there! Instead, we went for you, so you can live through our pictures, and Ken’s adventures. Buckle up buttercup, here’s your dose of living vicariously through us for the day.
We rolled into Hurricane, pronounced Her-ick-in by the one local we talked to, and parked in the best RV park to date. It felt and looked so much like our neighborhood in Lakewood that it really made me homesick for my neighbors. A common trend we are seeing is that we are the youngest people rolling into these places. It was quiet, and everyone had a dog or two and was more than willing to stop so I could over cuddle their pet while they talked to me and I ignored them. Not trying to be mean or distant, it’s just… well,doggies!!! Hurricane is 10 minutes East of St George, a town that’s set up on the Tabernacle grid, and has great climbing, hiking and more. I was still in the boot so we did other stuff. We drove through Joshua Tree National Natural Landmark, crossed the border through Arizona and into Nevada to make a quick stop at a casino in Mesquite. We had to bail on that super-fast from the smoke in there, but no matter they got $20 from me in 10 minutes flat, and $5 from Ken in half an hour.
We took a day to ride the bus up the Zion canyon, go out at the top to “hike” 40 feet on a trail, then had lunch and headed back. I’m quite the adventure destroyer at this point in time.
So, Ken came back the next day to hike the Angles Landing.The pictures I’m assured do no justice to how amazing this climb was. And the pictures are amazing. He headed out super early and was one of the first few folks on the trail that day, which besides being extremely cold this time of year, is also not super busy until the afternoon. The route has chains and guard rails up the really steep sections, but Ken chose to go for a “chain free” ascent, very badass when you see how steep it is. At the top was some dumb shit tourist from maybe Germany throwing rocks off the top!! THROWING ROCKS OVER A CLIFF! Dude is just lucky it was Ken there who told his buddy to stop. If I’d been there… well some of you have seen my “I’m probably going to kill you now” face… There is simply no cure for Stupid.
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