I realized I don't much talk about specific hikes around here.
Recently, I mentioned
Spooky and Peek-a-Boo slot canyons, and those are super cool hikes not to be missed. (As long as you are neither claustrophobic nor well-nourished, as noted.)
Last year, I posted pics and raves about how gorgeous
Lost Lake, up on the Boulder, is. (This post also somehow morphs into Hillary Clinton, the Milky Way, and lightning. Don't ask. You'll have to read it, heh.) Then there's the
anti-ATV (well, anti-piss-poor users of ATVs) rant that happened because of another horseback ride up to Lost Lake.
Hmm, then there was the one about
seeing bighorn sheep along Pleasant Creek Canyon in the Park. No pics, as I'd forgotten my camera that day...but I often see sheep in that canyon. And it is sooo gorgeous there.
Ooh,
Natural Bridges National Monument, just down the road from Torrey out in
Cedar Mesa. Total wow out there.
There are so, so many hikes I can mention. I'll have to start doing that, and posting pics along with them, of course.
i just wrote a "travel tip" for a nicely-organized travel site called
Travel Dudes. My tip was, oddly enough (lol) about
Best Hikes in Southern Utah's National Parks. All of the parks down here are, pure & simple, AMAZING. And each is so in its own way. Am I partial to Capitol Reef because that's where I live? Of course. But each park has its own breath-taking delights. Visit 'em all. (Check out this really crisp photo of
Bryce Canyon. If you're a camera fiend, that park will keep you occupied for days. For all hours of all the days you spend there, in fact.)
And here are some blog posts on
NileGuide I wrote about
road tripping and
gettin' your beer on in Zion. (Too bad I can't write a similar one about Torrey, ha. Not quite as many drinking establishment choices here, I'm afraid!)
What else. Well, there are my most favorite hikes around Torrey...but I'll have to think about exposing those, so to speak. Not like this is a rabid tourist mecca yet, but it's always been my goal to
not encourage the over-visitation of wild places that often means eventual, rather traumatic change. We'll stick with just mentioning Lost Lake for now, hmm? :)
More pics for your viewing pleasure. Then it's off to dreamland for this adventurer...
Blind Lake in the fall, up on the Boulder
Zion...aahhh.
hiking in my southern utah stomping grounds
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