Zion National Park

We finally arrived to some warmer lands, without snow, there were even some palm trees at our inn. We drove to the canyon to start our hike at Angels Landing. We had to get a permit to enter the trail, a ranger rigorously controled my ID and then we were free to go on the ridge to the end of the cliff. It was a beautiful hike with some stairs and chains over the canyon.
Amazing colours everywhere, sandstone cliffs, polished completely smooth by the wind. We saw many chipmunks on the trail, who were not afraid at all, one even crawled in our backpack. Then we went to the emerald pools, which were supposed reflect the mountains on their green surface, unfortunately they were quite empty. At the end we walked deeper in the canyon untill the trail went into the water. Some people had waterproof pants and shoes and walked even further in the canyon. It must be very cool in the summer, when you can walk in there barefoot. We drove through the park on the way out, it was already kind of dark, but it was very scenic, and at the end we had a clear sky with hundreds of stars.
It was a truly amazing day.Read more