Weeping Rock Waterfall - Their first quest for the day
Emerald Waterfall - Second Quest and Almost a Waterfall
Everything in Zion is UP
Marsha on the Virgin River
Zion is Spectacular
Date: Tuesday, June 8th
Day: 25
RV Miles: 2,719
Location: Glendale, UT
Elevation: 5,974 ft
Today was pretty much a non-event. Larry got the oil changed in the RV and we drove to Glendale, UT which is about 15 miles East of Zion National Park. Larry wanted to go to Springdale, UT which is on the West side of Zion but the temperature there was 104. I talked him into Glendale after explaining to him the benefits of a high elevation relative to temperature.
This is a sleepy little town and a sleepy little RV park run by Ma and Pa. Actually it looks like Ma does all the work and Pa sits back in the corner on the couch and provides color commentary on what’s going on. After dinner Larry and I went into the campground office to see if they had a current newspaper we could purchase. Larry asked, “Do you carry newspapers?”
“Naw, we outlawed news around here about 20 years ago,” replied Pa.
“Well, George I can’t remember the last time we saw a newspaper. My gosh it must have been . . . over a year ago when we went into the Junction,” commented Ma.
”Don ‘t watch no TV neither,” added Pa.
Larry paused to count the negatives in Pa’s reply so he could figure out if they did, or did not watch TV and then replied, “Well I was just wondering if they ever got the oil leak in the Gulf plugged yet.”
“What leak?” they asked in unison.
“Doesn’t matter and it would be illegal here abouts if it were,” replied Larry as he walked back out the door letting the wood screen door slam behind him.
Honest, that conversation happened. I’ve been telling you humans are none to smart.
Anyway, I would say we were in a backwater town except there ain’t that much water in Utah.
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Zion National Park
Date: Wednesday, June 9th
Day: 26
RV Miles: 2,719
Location: Glendale, UT
Elevation: 5,974 ft
Hi this is Sasha. This was an awesome day, for sure. Like Larry and Marsha took Max and I to this cool doggy dude ranch so they could go to Zion National Park. The doggy dude ranch was totally the bomb – like there were bunches of other dogs I got to play with and the lady there fawned all over me all day long. She even washed my paws because they were like all grey and groady from all of the desert dust.
Like now Max wants the keyboard. Gross! Here whatever.
Told you Sasha was going to be trouble, the little twit!
Yesterday I left off talking about water. Well Larry and Marsha have discovered something they forgot about – cold water. With all the desert camping we have been doing they haven’t even seen cool water since they left home. On the RV the water comes in via a 25 foot hose that lays coiled up outside the RV and the sun beats down on it all day or the air heats up the water. Sorta like a solar hot water heater. At one place we stopped, can’t remember which one, they forgot to turn on the hot water heater and no one noticed. Well here in Glendale they got a real rude reminder about cold water since the water here is from a natural spring. It is not cool; it is COLD. Should’a heard Marsha scream when she went to get in the shower.
Anyway, as Sasha indicated we had a great day. While Sasha got to go play with the “little dogs” I got to go run with the big boys in this huge pen about 200 feet on a side. We ran and played all day. I haven’t had this much fun since Sasha had to go to the vet for the whole day.
Larry told me about their trip into Zion and it seems that they walked their legs off looking for a waterfall in Zion. Now, let me remind you that Zion is still considered a desert and if you remember the last time they went looking for a waterfall in the desert you would have guessed they learned their lesson. They had a little more luck this time though.
On their first hike to Weeping Rock (their first waterfall quest for the day) they were on a trail described as steep with moderate drop-offs. Larry described the trail as about 3 feet wide cut into the side of a mountain / cliff. The moderate drop-off was somewhere between 100 to 200 feet. Marsha didn’t like the steep part or the moderate drop-off part and it got her quite excited. Larry indicated that her excitement was something only a guy would notice.
On that hike they learned the hard way that the low humidity, the altitude and the exertion takes its toll and dehydrates a person in a very short while. To combat this they went back to the Lodge and bought a camel pack for Larry to wear. A camel pack is a backpack that has a bladder to hold water and a hose that clips to the front of the pack. Whenever you want a drink of water, you just take a sip of the hose. Larry told me he wanted to get one for Marsha but she said she didn’t want one so as Larry put it, Marsha was sucking on his hose the rest of the day.
Larry also commented that at Bryce Canyon everything was down. At Zion everything was up. The bottom of the Zion canyon is not very wide and the cliffs rise 2 to 3 thousand feet almost straight up so it is hard to get a good picture because you can’t get far enough back get something that has perspective. Non-the-less, they took over 180 pictures of mostly rocks. You would think that after Bryce Canyon they would have enough rock photos.
Tomorrow we set off for California via Las Vegas. We will be on the road for three days to get to our next National Park. Larry said I would like it because it has lots of big trees.
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