Craig's blog

This morning we went on the Riverside Walk at the end of Zion canyon. We rode the shuttle to the last stop and then hiked along the cement trail. It’s a beautiful, easy hike that ends at the beginning of the Narrows. We played there at the end for awhile throwing rocks and then headed back. It was surprisingly cool there compared to everywhere else in Zion.

Next time we come to Zion (today we were talking about coming back in 3 years) we want to take more significant hikes. The two I wish we had taken are the Angel’s Landing (Kelly wanted to do it) and up the Narrows. Next time I want to be sure we do them.

We had lunch under the big tree at the Zion Lodge (like we did 3 years ago). Then we came back to the motorhome, rested for a little while and went down to the river. We saw lots of people jumping into tubes and asked about it. We found they could be rented just up the opposite bank. We rented 5 tubes and set out at 4:20 for a 2 hour tube ride. I held on to Jessie’s tube and she and I floated down together. Unfortunately, she really didn’t enjoy it. I don’t think she was particularly scared, but she said she didn’t like getting splashed (we hope she enjoys white water rafting in a couple days more). However, after about 25 minutes, some folks along the river told everyone that was floating down that there was a flash flood watch for Zion Canyon. We decided to play it safe and get out. 2 hours was going to be pretty long anyway, so I think it worked out pretty well. Kelly and Kate really loved floating down.

Here are some pictures from the Zion portion of our trip.