Come to Zion, Come to Zion

Zion National Park is the COOLEST place in southern Utah and we Becks saw it all! We all prepped the kids that this was going to be a hiking trip. Yellowstone was a walking/ driving, seeing animals trip, and Zion was a get out and hike trip. And so we did. We drove into the park and camped at the Watchman campground which was great. And there is a shuttle bus that takes you up the canyon so we never had to drive!! We just planned out where we wanted to hike, got on the shuttle and went off. Some of the local wildlife that Sierra couldn't stop taking pictures of. We even saw wild turkeys.

Our first hike was to the temple of Sinawava and up the Narrows. Most of the hikes/trails were paved or a good dirt trail. Hardly any rocks which was super!

We started out in the water just over our ankles, and then it got a bit deeper. The water felt great on our 95 degree day. And my hiking poles came in very handy maneuvering over all the rocks. We were hiking upstream which was a bit harder. The Narrows hike is a 16 mile hike one way so we just wanted to see what it was all about. That's for another trip.

Next, we hike up Angel's Landing. That is one of the more adventurous hikes our family did.

This is going up the Walter's wiggles. 21 Switchbacks that lead up to Scout lookout. That's were lots of people chicken out...not the Becks. We didn't really think about that you get to climb a trail that is only 3 ft. wide in places and you have a 800ft. drop off on either side of you. Shawn was in charge of Samuel and I had Hyrum. Shawn had the death grip of Samuel to encourage the listening factor and I made sure Hyrum held onto the chains. Really, if you were in freakout mode, then you'd have a problem, otherwise, just hike and look at the great view at the top! This was a 5 mile hike and our family did a great job.

Some of our other adventures

were Weeping rock, where the water seeps out over a rock, and the Emerald Pools hike, and Hidden canyon. I think we hiked out the kids.

With our last hike up Hidden Canyon, we needed a bit of encouragement with some gummy octopuses. We also had our daily baths in the river after all that wonderful hiking. The water was spectacular!