Thursday, August 18, 2011

August 9: Bryce Canyon NP

We listened to a geology talk from a park ranger (so the kids could earn their junior ranger badges) and learned that Bryce Canyon is not actually a canyon.  Someday it will be a canyon, but right now, it's the eroding edge of a plateau.  Princess Sparkley liked that and has been calling it Bryce Eroding Edge of a Plateau since then.


Little Guy was too young for the ranger program so his nice daddy bought him a Junior Ranger hat.





We hiked down into the "canyon."





These sort of pillars of rock are called hoodoos.  A few days later, Little Guy saw the red rocks near Grandma's cabin and said, "I see Bryce Canyon and the tutus."  :)




This was supposed to be a family picture (with B holding the camera).














At the bottom we stopped to rest and saw a woman pet a super fat chipmunk.








This is the hike we actually wanted to do, between to walls of rock, but it was closed due to what appears to be a rock slide.







At the bottom, heading back up.




Almost to the top.  B was trying to rest his back (35 extra pounds of Little Guy saying "I'm not tired!")  I thought it was funny when I came across Buddy resting the same way.