National Parks of USA

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great Bryce show Ewelina !! 
Don't worry - you will go back.
I did after my first visit... not enough time ... so the second time we did the Navajo trail.. It amazed me just as much as you apparantly !
I consider it one of the most beautiful and impressive hikes we've ever made !
Good to see that the tree is still standing in Wall street 

Thanks again for posting !

[Ewelina Wajgert]

where are you off to next?

Let me keep it secret for the moment, Ragged

[Ragged Robin]

OK    

[Ewelina Wajgert]

After leaving Bryce Canyon, we go trough Red Canyon. We go under the bridge, they were two there in teh past, now remained only one.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

We eat evening the worst dinner on our trip in only cafeteria, that we meet on the route 89. We sleep in Mt Carmel Junction and morning set off to Zion, that you have mentioned earlier in this thread.

1. Park has other character. The walls are inclined, you can stroll on them. They are covered of regular cracks' grid.
2. Here you see people that are enough high in their climbing
3. 4. 5. We go to our first parking

[Ragged Robin]

What a contrast in form and colour in the next landscape Ewelina, but equally intriguing and beautiful.....

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Now I have for you some plants from Zion

1, 2. Heterotheca jonesii (identified by Lori)
3. Is this Ipomopsis spp.
4. Arenaria spp?

[Ewelina Wajgert]

We leave the car in front od tunnel and go to Canyon Overlook trail - one of the  best trails in Zion

1. Tunnel chiseled in the rock in year 1930 is 1,1 mile long
2. On the way we take photos of nature
3. Here under rock's shelf we meet row of Adianthum
4. From the trail
5. And at last in front of us appear one of the most stunning views. The way, that  leave the tunnel, fall with switchbacks down and lead to the heart of canyon

[Lori S.]

Thanks for more wonderful scenes, Ewelina!
18600 and 18603 are not saxifraga but possibly Heterotheca jonesii instead?
Yes, I think 18614 is Ipomopsis spp..
18615 - possibly Arenaria spp.?

The upper vertical rock face in 18595 is a great cross section of what are currently considered to be aeolian (wind-blown) dunes, migrating to the left.

[ranunculus]

Wonderful images of another of our favourite areas, Ewelina ... Zion is magnificent.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful pix Ewelina !!! 

I only had time for a brief visit to Zion back then... unfortunately no time (and maybe breath  ) to make it up the trail... Beautiful views I missed apparantly..    Thanks for filling in for me 

Look forward for more !!

[ranunculus]

I don't wish to veer anyone away from this magnificent thread Ewelina, I only wish to remind any newcomers or visitors to the forum (and especially anyone intending to follow in Ewelina's footsteps) that there are further images from Bryce, Zion, etc. on the following thread:-

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=611.0

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Cliff,
Thank you for the link to your thread. I looked and look at the threads in this section before journeys and often I draw inspiration from the photos of forumist to hiking but this beautiful thread I evidently overlooked.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

1, 2. Colourful walls of Zion
3. Parking at Zion Human History Museum
4. We may not go farther with our car. We leave it on parking and get on the shuttle bus
5. Three Patriarchs

[Ewelina Wajgert]

I don't wish to veer anyone away from this magnificent thread Ewelina, I only wish to remind any newcomers or visitors to the forum (and especially anyone intending to follow in Ewelina's footsteps) that there are further images from Bryce, Zion, etc. on the following thread:-

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=611.0

Cliff,

I have looked at your thread with bated breath. You were in some places, in that I wasn't.