Archive for May 11th, 2007

2007 05 11 – Big Trip – Day 11 – Bryce Canyon National Park

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Ruby’s Inn RV Park, 2 miles from Bryce, Utah. Tachometer – 1322 miles

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Overlook from bryce Point

Today we explored Bryce Canyon, named after a Mormon settler who 150 years ago tried to live in this area and gave up after 5 years because it was too harsh. He had a famous saying “It’s a hell of a place to lose a cow”. The sights are spectacular as you can imagine. If you can’t take a look at the picture gallery. The problem for us is that there are no trails that we can hike with the kids. They all lead down from the rim to the canyon, so it’s too dangerous to do with our threesome. Similar to the situation we had in Grand Canyon last month. Zion was ideal because everything was happening at the canyon bottom. Here it is at the top. (more…)