well, we're incredibly ambitious today. I don't know what we were thinking
Right now we are heading into Bryce Canyon national park
I am very excited for today because this is our first time visiting Bryce Canyon we have been to
zion a few times we've recently visited the other parks in Utah and this is the last one on the
list. so I am really looking forward to today and every time we come to Utah we're always just blown
away by the scenery like just this drive-in has been gorgeous like the minute you enter the state
it's just around every corner is an amazing view so I am just so
looking forward to today getting out doing some hiking in this beautiful park. So we're actually
not even in the park yet we just stopped off at the dixie national forest and we've already
got some pretty awesome views we had to just stop and take a look at take it in for a minute
I'm just getting more excited to get inside the park and get out there.
Okay so we just got out of the car getting ready to do some hiking here in Bryce Canyon National
Park so our plan today is to do a decent amount of hiking we actually want to do two trails and do
the Navajo Queens Garden Loop and uh the Fairyland loop that's a little bit longer so we're gonna see
it's a lot yeah 11 miles total of hiking so we'll see how
the day ends up for us but that is the plan as of right now just entering the park.
so first impressions of bryce canyon national park is I love how it slopes down so you kind of
start on top of it and then you got this view all the way down and it's just absolutely incredible
how it's different from any other canyon I've ever been to most canyons you stand on the rim
and you look down into it or you go down on the floor and here you start looking up at the top
it's really not another side that's why they kind of call it an amphitheater makes sense.
We walked down into the Queen's Garden and it's been really very scenic walks so far. loving it so
far. absolutely gorgeous yeah it's really beautiful the nice part is we walked down that was
easy we know we got to go back up yeah so could be more difficult but we got this whole place
to ourselves right now and I love it when that happens because nice and quiet and just gets you
in the space yeah enjoy this place without other people around it's really peaceful it doesn't
always happen so that's pretty special so big big thumbs up for Bryce Canyon National Park so far.
So when you're at Bryce Canyon National Park one of the words you're going to familiarize yourself
with is hoodoo and essentially what a hoodoo is there's a rock wall and over time that rock wall
breaks down and so you'll see different points you'll see the rock wall you'll see a rock wall
that has windows in it and then the hoodoo is kind of that towering rock structure that
doesn't have the window so it's kind of eroded on either side leaving that side of the spigot
so they're pretty cool um I wasn't really familiar with the term until I got to Utah maybe it's a
common term I don't know but uh the hoodoos are the big thing here at Bryce Canyon National Park.
So, Madalyn and I are currently walking on the Navajo Trail we're down in the bottom of
the Bryce Canyon National Park. it's different we just you know passed through an underpass
and now we're kind of in one more forest yeah it really becomes close to just the rock formations
it really becomes a forest so that's pretty cool um a little bit cooler too we're in the shade it
is it's a really nice day it's like 70 degrees so I got really lucky apparently snowed last night
it was calling for snow in this area last night which is kind of funny yeah I've seen pictures
of this place with snow oh yeah it's gorgeous but we live in the snowy area so I'd rather come out
here where there's some sun a bit of heat today that's right we're about to head up to the Bryce
Canyon Rim Trail we're down the floor we've really enjoyed being down on the floor and uh we're we're
kind of stalling for our hike back up because we know it's going to be a little strenuous.
We're heading up. We were too ambitious today
yeah there's no way we're gonna hike another eight miles after this so this was awesome.
ugh
That's the view right there
Well we were incredibly ambitious today I don't know what we were thinking when we said we were
going to do two hikes 11 miles that was well we should have known divided by four but we did the
uh the Queen's Loop and the Navajo Loop trail and that was more than enough for us our legs are
shot this place is a hiker's dream because there's so many other trails to do and we just scratched
the surface today and Bryce Canyon taught us a little bit of a lesson today which was don't
look at photos and just assume that a two-mile hike is yeah that's true something you can
just do true yeah it was it was kind of like our eyes are bigger than our stomach sort of thing.
So Bryce Canyon is has a 15 mile drive to the south so once you get into the park
the area where we hiked is pretty much just right
after the visitor center right next to the lodge so they have a beautiful drive
so we're going to do that drive right now and um we're gonna stop at a couple of viewpoints
well we thoroughly enjoyed our day at Bryce Canyon National Park. The park was absolutely beautiful
the weather was perfect and we really enjoyed our hike. We were only here for a day
so we only got to do the one hike so please let us know in the comments
below your favorite hikes that we have to do next time we're in Bryce Canyon
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