After three fine days at Zion NP and facing an 11am appointment on Saturday back in San Francisco, I decided to skip out on Great Basin NP in eastern Nevada. In any event, I will be back to the Zion/Escalante region again at some point in the future, so it will slip into that itinerary. There's certainly more to Zion than there is to nearby Bryce. I didn't even visit the eastern or Kolob Canyon part of the park, so I will probably want to be back in the future. On the other hand, Bryce is one park you can check off in a day and a half, really.
Zion was nice, though I think I'm suffering from a bit of scenic overload since I wasn't as awestruck as I would expect to be. Too many fine places in rapid succession, I guess. Anyway, I did the "famous" hikes there: Angel's Landing, The Narrows, and Observation Point. All quite nice. There won't be too many pictures thought since I forgot to put the SD card back in for the first day and a half; since Zion runs a mandatory tour bus system, once you're gone from your car at the start of the day it's a 60-90 min excursion to go back and get something.
So instead, here I am perched in Ely, Nevada... The regional hub for the middle of nowhere. Heading up US93 from Panaca to Ely, there is absolutely nothing for 120 miles. At around the mid-point, the "SCAN" feature of the radio found nothing on either the AM or FM dials, merrily spinning through the frequencies in an endless loop. So I listened to one of the CDs I bought in Moab. Again. I'm starting to get tired of them too.
So my next post will probably me late Saturday or even later on Sunday or Monday, once Thomas and Alyssa have joined me. I'm pretty sure the place we booked in Sequoia advertised "wifi".
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