Bryce Canyon! 


Spent a day in Bryce Canyon - one of the strangest places I have ever been 

My last canyon visit was Bryce - one of the best canyon parks in Utah. Bryce is well known for it's "hoodoos" - brown, red, orange, yellow, and white pinnacles of limestone, sandstone, and mudstone.




Bryce Canyon



I wanted to do some serious hiking and did Fairyland loop. The loop goes in to Fairyland and Campbell canyons for close look at the hoodoos. The hike is about 13 kilometers and has some 700m descending and climbing in altitudes between 2200m and 2500m.



Hoodoos in Fairyland canyon



After I had recovered from Fairyland hike I took shorter (2.2Km) but very interesting "Navajo Loop" which descends 167m in the middle of giant hoodoos.



Wall Street



The day had been mostly cloudy but there was a small chance for a sunset so I went to sunset point and waited what would happen. The western sky cleared out just for the sunset but unfortunately the canyons open to the east so the setting sun could not reach the canyons anymore. The light show was still pretty nice.



Bryce Canyon in dusk colors

Enough red rocks for now - time to move on to arrive to California in time. 

Posted: La - Marraskuu 12, 2005 at 08:07 ap.          

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