The Narrows

Getting so bad at posting! My apologies. The Robertson’s are here… Rolled in last night after a few transportation episodes. Very nice to see such familiar faces so far away from home.

Anyway…hiked the Narrows in Zion national park last weekend. Started at the top near Chamberlain Ranch and walked down (about 16 miles from top to bottom at the temple of Sinawava). Drove up Friday night with Jesse, Addy and JR. Rolled into the BLM campground around 10 and stayed the night (fo free.. always a plus).

Headed to the visitors center bright and early to pick up our permits and poopie bags (Leave no trace is kind of a big deal here…especially near water sources ha)

First part of the hike was pretty nice. Not too much water crossing…and not too canyoney yet either but very pretty.

Got a little further and went exploring into a little side canyon. Picture of Jesse, Me and JR... Temperature got about 15 degrees cooler in about 3 ft.

Lunch break in pretty sweet cave wall alcove. Twas pretty big…hiking companions for scale. JR reading the map, Jesse in the middle and Addy on the far right.

Parts like this photo were probably my favorite…walking in the slot canyons with sheer cliffs on either side and river flowing through. Addy and JR creeping in the shadows of one of those narrow spots. Very cool

Picture on right of the waterfall we had to go around…didn’t see the path at first and thought we had to go over….twas probably about 15 feet tall, I got a little nervous. Ended up stopping there and swimming under the falls with about 12 other narrows hikers. Most of them were middle-aged folk from San Diego that work together. Something about people hiking and stopping to play under a waterfall is pretty magical... We were all like a bunch of kids laughing and smiling and fooling around. Pretty funny

Felt compelled to post a picture of jesse swimming…mostly because he looks so great haha.

River got much more challenging when it joined with Deep Creek… About twice as wide, fast, deep and the rocks become much larger and more slippery. Definitly would have busted ass about 18 times if I didn’t have trekking poles.

Arrived at our campsite around 7 in the evening. Ate dinner, hung out, and all passed out pretty early from a long challenging day. Right photo (taken by Jesse!) is the fisheyes view of me, Addy and JR at our campsite (number 6, quite a nice one)

Enough blogging for now.... more to come on the Narrows hike soon!