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Continuing our Zion National Park weekend, one of our days we decided that we’d challenge Angels Landing - a hike which takes a lot of guts to complete. Angels Landing is a 5 mile hike which presents gorgeous views and dizzying drop-offs as you gain about 1488 feet of elevation and walk some portions along a 1200 foot sheer cliff.
Pictured here is another view of Zion Canyon - imagine this area all underwater, and then millions of years later, this green area below a lake bed. After the lake drained out, the Virgin River carved out the canyon which we see now. As part of the Grand Staircase of sedimentary rock, the oldest layer of Zion Canyon is the newest layer of rock in the Grand Canyon. Wow! What a progression!
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Angels Landing
Continuing the Angels Landing hike, after Refrigerator Canyon, and Walter’s Wiggles, you come to a sandy, broad high point about 1500ft (457m) above the canyon floor called Scout Lookout. From here, you can see the trail which follows perilously along a sandstone backbone to the Angels Landing peak.
We actually stopped here and called our hike good - although the trail extends further, as you can see in the photo. The views were glorious, and getting close to the trail edges at Scout Lookout gave all of us an appreciation for how Zion’s Canyon was carved out over time.
Check out more on Zion National Park by reading the 2010 Fall Map & Guide Newspaper, taken from the Zion National Park website.
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Big Bend
From Angel’s Landing lies Big Bend below where the Virgin River and Zion National Park road curves around the tall scalable walls. It was incredible to see rock climbers making their way up to the top of these faces in 2-3 day segments.
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