Zion Narrows - Part Two

Well, in the spirit of the trip as a two day trek, the blog post will also be a two part afair. The photos shown on the previous post were all from the first day. Now we have the photos from the second day.

Anni sets off in the morning. We carried all our water and our packs were noticably lighter.

We soon came to Big Spring which was, well big and a spring. It marked the point where the Narrows were their narrowest. After this there was a sustained period of inescapable narrow terrain where flash floods could prove disasterous. The trip was designed so we entered this section in the morning when the chance of thunderstorms were the lowest.

We obviously wanted to negociate this section fairly quickly, but not so fast that we couldn't take photos!

The canyon sides towered up and the water ran rapidly. From this point on most of the trekking was in the river. The rocks were loose and at points the current quite strong. But with care these didn't hinder us.

It was fairly cool and dark in the canyon despite the fact that it was clearly baking in the rest of the park. We spent most of the day wearing fleeces.

This view typifies what we saw. The sun shone tantilisingly close but rarely were we able to bask in its rays. The backdrops were illuminated spectacularly but the foreground remained dark, this made photography somewhat challenging.