Monday, October 20, 2008

Bryce Canyon in the fall


Mandy and I drove down to Bryce Canyon National Park this past Friday. The weather was absolutely wonderful. We hiked around and took pictures. Friday evening we checked into the lodge which is just a few hundred feet from the rim and inside the park. We enjoyed an astronomy lecture from a park ranger and then got to look through three large telescopes in the visitor center parking lot. My favorite thing to see was the Ring Nebula. We also saw the moons of Jupiter, the Milky Way, and the Andromeda Galaxy.
My favorite hike started at Sunset Point. It looked like a Marble Works setup with lots of switch backs and a steep decent. On Saturday I ran to the top of this trail in 6 and 1/2 minutes.

2 comments:

Meli said...

I want to go there!! hehe

Unknown said...

That is utiful. My mom worked there one summer when she was in college years ago.