Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures: Day 32

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Day 32 - Monday, April 2, 2007

Zion National Park, UT — Day 2

The park has a shuttle service that takes you to each of the significant points; this prevents the major traffic jams that they had in the past and protects the environment. The park shuttle drivers does a great job in explaining the different hikes available along the route– by difficulty level, type of terrain, and what you will see along the hike. So after we picked a hike (Emerald Pools – Upper, Middle and Lower) that we thought was at our difficulty level we set out to conquer the mountain. If you have every been to Maui, you know the road to Hana…well, it was the road to Hana on foot with steep drop offs…boulders in the middle of the path the size of Mini Coopers you had to navigate around …all of this while the path is going straight up. Who picked this hike?…it was supposed to be moderate …of course our egos got bruised even more as kids ran passed us like mountain goats. What are they doing up here anyway? It’s much to steep. Somewhere at about 7000 feet somebody stole all the oxygen.. seemed like we could hardly catch our breath!

Once of the good things about camping you meet some nice folks. Today we met the campers next to us David and Julie with little 18 mo old Jake. They were from northern Utah and they told us they camped as often as they could. They actually hiked with Jake in a piggy back like contraption. Folks in Utah are very healthy!! Later on in the evening while everyone was sitting around the camp fire…David offered us Bear sausage…yup ,you heard right. Bear sausage… Julie informed us that David and his uncles are all hunters…the sausage was actually very tasty…no it did not taste like chicken… more like pork. However, something in that sausage gave me nightmares. All night long I dreamed about a Bear looking for me. No more Bear sausage for me, thank you.