Canyonlands
Jan.27.07 Filed in: life
My legs are just starting to calm themselves down and
stop aching now that I have had a chance to set up
camp and eat some dinner. I went on a long 12ish mile
hike today which was wonderful and as I mentioned
before, this place is simply amazing to hike through.
The fact that it was covered in snow in a lot of
places was the icing on the cake (kind of almost
literally if you think about it...). Although some of
the passes between canyons were a little more
difficult to traverse while covered in slippery snow
or some of the straight ways sticky with thick mud, I
still found the hike to be wonderful. My only wish
was that I could have set up came and stayed the
night out there. I was jealous of another hiker that
I came across a few times in the past couple days
which turns out was also from NC. He was on a three
day stay out in the canyons. For years it seems I
have dreamed of coming out here during the winter
when the crowds were gone and I always hoped that I
would see these beautiful canyons covered in a
blanket of snow. I always imagined it to be such a
contradictory thing , snow in the desert that is. Now
that I am here and living that dream it is nearly
exactly as I thought it might be. Although I am here
a couple weeks after the snow fall there was still an
ample amount of snow covering the more shadowy areas
of the canyon. The white mixing in with the red and
the browns was just as great as I always daydreamed
about.
Tomorrow will be the last morning spent in this area, after this I will be heading north to the northern part of Canyonlands National Park, The Island In The Sky. Which is named all to well. The towering view of the whole of the area is nothing short of stunning and I can't wait to get up there. So with that, I am going to get some sleep and I will talk to you again sometime soon.
(I will post this entry and the one previous in the morning on my way through Moab but I am afraid you will have to wait another day or so for photos because I want to get a move on, my trip is drawing to its last few days which is both exciting and really depressing but I will get to that another day...)
Tomorrow will be the last morning spent in this area, after this I will be heading north to the northern part of Canyonlands National Park, The Island In The Sky. Which is named all to well. The towering view of the whole of the area is nothing short of stunning and I can't wait to get up there. So with that, I am going to get some sleep and I will talk to you again sometime soon.
(I will post this entry and the one previous in the morning on my way through Moab but I am afraid you will have to wait another day or so for photos because I want to get a move on, my trip is drawing to its last few days which is both exciting and really depressing but I will get to that another day...)
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