The Narrows Part Deux

Before I talk more about the Narrows I first would like to pay tribute to Ralphy who sacrificed his chair and his bum for us to have a good laugh.

"I'm having a little trouble here!" hahaha

Sooo on our second day of the hike... Woke up, had breakfast and headed out on Sunday morning. Switched to the fisheye lens so the rest of my pictures will be slightly rounded… Cool pictures but kind of took away from just how big some of these places were

Starting off bright and early and filling up on water at kolb creek.

Right before the piece where we got about chest deep in the water

Our first day hikers on that rock... or “gapers” as one of the backcountry rangers here calls them. Gapers are people that rent the special river canyoneering shoes, walking sticks, dry bags and sacks and pretty much all their gear from Springdale’s local gear outfitters. The gapers and dayhikers may have ruined the last chunk of the hike because there were so freaking many of them. Another deficit of the fisheye: made the water look yellow greenish but it was actually a beautiful blue green color. Lovely.

More narrow slot canyons and deep water… and gapers. Met up with JR and Addy again and went for a little swim. Was quite nice. Pretty much just booking it at the end.

Did some more self shuttling and headed back into springdale for dinner then more free camping on BLM land.

Monday morning woke up early again to go be shuttled around. Kind of a ridiculous photo of everybody haha I think we were all pretty tired and out of it at this point.

Hit up Angel’s landing. Probably the sketchiest hike in Zion. That’s it on the left. Scary looking right?) Several spots where you have to use chains attached to the rockfaces to climb up.

Very proud of myself for beasting it despite the sheer drops and intense heights. Beautiful though J