Day 12: Friday, September 15, 2006
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We are now on our way to Moab and to the KOA there. We spent most of today at Bryce Canyon, and it is a beautiful canyon but doesn’t compare to the Grand Canyon.
Saw lots of hoodoo’s as they are called, which are large spires of rock just standing up in the middle of no where. These hoodoos are not just limited to Bryce Canyon though but can be found elsewhere.
While driving out to some of the lookouts we saw an antelope, unfortunately we were unable to take a photo of him as our camera’s were not ready at that point, and he was not there when we came back through.
We drove all the way out to the farthest point in the Canyon and took a short hike. We were going to take a longer hike but it was/is extremely windy today and so me being the chicken that I am I didn’t want to risk being blown off a cliff ;-) The hiking trails that we saw looked really easy and some had rocks lining the way so you couldn’t go off the trail. A little different from what we were hiking in the Grand Canyon.
We are driving out to Moab on Scenic Byway 12; it is a nice drive through the mountains and sure beats driving along the interstate the entire way. We are just commenting on all the “mountains” out here and the colors that are there and then are not there. On one side of the road we have large red colored mountains and on the other side we have grayish/white mountains… It is really weird. And then there are the mountains only a few miles away that we can see that are covered with trees..
1800’ish
We have passed many cattle grids* on the road and I just thought that it was to keep the animals off the roads and out of certain areas. Well that might have been true in some areas, I saw cows grazing on the side of the road and Lana informs me that these are “open range cows”. Now in Australia we herd our cattle and sheep along the side of the roads but it is called droving and we always have to be with the animals. So it is strange to see just stray cows along the side of the roads ;-).
We are still on Scenic ByWay 12 and have gone through desert, mountains, valleys, grassy areas, aspens and pine trees. Quite the diversification of environments.
- Tanya
* Cattle guards
We arrived in Moab, UT where we will be spending a few days. We have plans to go to Arches National Park this weekend. A good friend of mine from Ohio, Jason Axt, is currently out here in Salt Lake City doing an internship. He was able to get this weekend off from the hospital and met us here for some fun hiking this weekend.
- Lana
We are now on our way to Moab and to the KOA there. We spent most of today at Bryce Canyon, and it is a beautiful canyon but doesn’t compare to the Grand Canyon.
Saw lots of hoodoo’s as they are called, which are large spires of rock just standing up in the middle of no where. These hoodoos are not just limited to Bryce Canyon though but can be found elsewhere.
While driving out to some of the lookouts we saw an antelope, unfortunately we were unable to take a photo of him as our camera’s were not ready at that point, and he was not there when we came back through.
We drove all the way out to the farthest point in the Canyon and took a short hike. We were going to take a longer hike but it was/is extremely windy today and so me being the chicken that I am I didn’t want to risk being blown off a cliff ;-) The hiking trails that we saw looked really easy and some had rocks lining the way so you couldn’t go off the trail. A little different from what we were hiking in the Grand Canyon.
We are driving out to Moab on Scenic Byway 12; it is a nice drive through the mountains and sure beats driving along the interstate the entire way. We are just commenting on all the “mountains” out here and the colors that are there and then are not there. On one side of the road we have large red colored mountains and on the other side we have grayish/white mountains… It is really weird. And then there are the mountains only a few miles away that we can see that are covered with trees..
1800’ish
We have passed many cattle grids* on the road and I just thought that it was to keep the animals off the roads and out of certain areas. Well that might have been true in some areas, I saw cows grazing on the side of the road and Lana informs me that these are “open range cows”. Now in Australia we herd our cattle and sheep along the side of the roads but it is called droving and we always have to be with the animals. So it is strange to see just stray cows along the side of the roads ;-).
We are still on Scenic ByWay 12 and have gone through desert, mountains, valleys, grassy areas, aspens and pine trees. Quite the diversification of environments.
- Tanya
* Cattle guards
We arrived in Moab, UT where we will be spending a few days. We have plans to go to Arches National Park this weekend. A good friend of mine from Ohio, Jason Axt, is currently out here in Salt Lake City doing an internship. He was able to get this weekend off from the hospital and met us here for some fun hiking this weekend.
- Lana
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