The Light at the End of the Tunnel

Here we go tour guide, here we go.  What's up KW?  We are ready to go hiking in Zion National Park. Ok, we are packed and ready to head out.  I hear we are doing the Narrows today.  Who did you hear that from?  Heck I don't remember.  Well, we  will not be doing the Narrows today.  We don't have any dry weather hiking gear.  We will be doing the Riverside walking trail.  It goes out to the beginning of the Narrows.  Hey tour guide, why do we need dry weather gear?  It's not raining.  The Narrows is a 13.6 mile hike through the canyon in the Virgin River.  You need the gear for hiking in the river.  Okie dokie then I'll pass because I can't swim.








Hey tour guide, that water looks cold, can you get me off this ledge?








Just around the corner starts the 13.6 mile hike through the Narrows.  No Mrs. tour guide, we are not hiking the Narrows today.










Hey tour guide, look, it's Big Ben.  KW, it's Big Bend.  Oh yeah, Big Ben is the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.  He sure made a bone head call that cost them the game Sunday against the Cheatriots.  Kick the field goal and go into overtime.


The Great White Throne.


Zion Mt. Carmel Highway Switchbacks.


Zion Mt. Carmel Tunnel.


Hey tour guide, look, it's the light at the end of the tunnel.


The Checkerboard Mesa.


Southwest Sunsets never get old.


Another view of the same sunset.


TTFN:

PS:

The geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area includes nine known exposed formations all visible in Zion National Park in Utah.  Together these formations represent about 150 million years of mostly Mesozoic aged sedimentation in that part of North America.  Part of a super-sequence of rock units called the Grand Staircase, the formations exposed in the Zion and Kolob area were deposited in several different environments that range from the warm shallow seas of the Kaibab and Moenkopi formations, streams and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations to the large deserts of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations and dry near shore environments of the Carmel Formation.