Wow! I don't even think there's words to describe this park. Amazing! When you enter Bryce Canyon National Park you don't think it's much because you enter on the rim and all you see is pine forests. The scenery is actually below the rim.
Scott and I opted to hike a 6.5 mile loop right through the amphitheater, or where all of the rock "hoodoo" formations are located (The Figure 8 - Queens Garden/Peekaboo/Navajo Conbination Trails). It was beautiful! It seems like Bryce is a canyon, but is actually a sinking basin. The scenery consisted of red rock hoodoos, pink and white rocks, and rock formations all layered on each other with pine and pinyon trees mixed throughout to create some of the most amazing scenery I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the pictures we took do not depict the beauty.
Our hike consisted of hiking through, around, and over these amazing rock formations. At the very end of the hike we went up steep switchbacks for about a half mile through a gulch to get back to the rim. It was breathtaking. By far this was the most strenuous hike of the trip, and it doesn't help that we had just spend five glutenous days in Vegas!
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When we got back to our camp we hung two hammocks and had a relaxing evening in the hammocks and by the campfire.
I will post pictures in the next few days, we don't have a great Internet connection.
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