Time to introduce ourselves!
We are starting with Coby, because he has an interesting story and pictures to share.
Early Sunday morning, Coby packed the Aztec and drove down to southern Utah to go play in Zion's National Park. The last time he was there was 2004 and we had gone camping with my family over our first anniversary. My family hiked Angel's Landing way back then and Coby chose not to go because I wasn't interested in going on a 5 mile, 5+ hour, 1488 feet elevation gain hike in the middle of July. He has regretted his decision to stay behind every day since. Recently, he has begun hiking a lot more and loves it, so when a random 4 day weekend in the spring popped up he jumped at the chance!
Here are a few pictures to highlight his trip and hike.
The tail goes up this pinnacle. I don't know if I would have been able to make it past this point. But Coby did. He is amazing!
Panoramic from the top of Angel's Landing. So so so pretty! Maybe that hike might be worth it after all! Wish I could make this photo even larger for you to see. It's so pretty!!
Of course, Coby wasn't alone up on the top. He was joined by his Buddy Bison and a cute chipmunk! The latter beat Coby up to the top (pretty sure he stayed the night up there) and then proceeded to beg for a good share of Coby's trail mix.
And later got this fun view when the switchbacks passed directly over top of the waterfall. It was so cool to have the switchbacks camouflaged well enough to not know they would travel over top of that waterfall.
View of the canyon with the river down below.
Clouds sitting on top of the cliffs.
Another breathtaking view of the canyon taken at the top of Angel's Landing. It was definitely worth the lonely drive down and dealing with all the rain to have this experience.
P.S. Coby may take the pictures, but if it were up to him, he would just list them and that's it. I'm the story teller. So if you wonder why I'm putting so many words in his mouth, it's because if I don't, he wont. I sure love my quite husband. He knew what he was doing when he married me!
We are starting with Coby, because he has an interesting story and pictures to share.
Early Sunday morning, Coby packed the Aztec and drove down to southern Utah to go play in Zion's National Park. The last time he was there was 2004 and we had gone camping with my family over our first anniversary. My family hiked Angel's Landing way back then and Coby chose not to go because I wasn't interested in going on a 5 mile, 5+ hour, 1488 feet elevation gain hike in the middle of July. He has regretted his decision to stay behind every day since. Recently, he has begun hiking a lot more and loves it, so when a random 4 day weekend in the spring popped up he jumped at the chance!
Here are a few pictures to highlight his trip and hike.
Can you see all the switch backs in this picture? All those switch backs. That is one of the reasons I didn't want to make this hike 14 years ago, not to mention that I was in no shape to do any kind of hiking and it was HOT it was July after all.
Look at all that green! You can tell it's been a wet winter and rainy spring, even in the heart of Utah's dessert country. Coby said it looked better with all the clouds and rain and green then it did with all the sun. I love the contrast of the green flora and red cliffs.
The tail goes up this pinnacle. I don't know if I would have been able to make it past this point. But Coby did. He is amazing!
This is a little bit different view on the same picture as above. You can see the same tree in both, the big one on the right of the trail. And that chain railing to help you climb. Yeah, that's a nope from me, but look at how beautiful!!
Panoramic from the top of Angel's Landing. So so so pretty! Maybe that hike might be worth it after all! Wish I could make this photo even larger for you to see. It's so pretty!!
Of course, Coby wasn't alone up on the top. He was joined by his Buddy Bison and a cute chipmunk! The latter beat Coby up to the top (pretty sure he stayed the night up there) and then proceeded to beg for a good share of Coby's trail mix.
Can you see that waterfall? Coby decided to catch this view of that trickle of a waterfall.
And later got this fun view when the switchbacks passed directly over top of the waterfall. It was so cool to have the switchbacks camouflaged well enough to not know they would travel over top of that waterfall.
View of the canyon with the river down below.
Clouds sitting on top of the cliffs.
Another breathtaking view of the canyon taken at the top of Angel's Landing. It was definitely worth the lonely drive down and dealing with all the rain to have this experience.
P.S. Coby may take the pictures, but if it were up to him, he would just list them and that's it. I'm the story teller. So if you wonder why I'm putting so many words in his mouth, it's because if I don't, he wont. I sure love my quite husband. He knew what he was doing when he married me!
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