Wednesday, October 08, 2008

SW Trip '08 Day 7 - Hike Bryce Canyon

We hiked the Queens Garden Trail, to the Peekaboo Loop, then up Wall Street to the Rim Trail. This is early on the Queens Garden Trail.

A short ways down from Sunrise Point.

10/08/08 Wednesday

We spent the day hiking the more scenic sections of Bryce Canyon.

Hiking on the Queens Garden Trail.

Hiking on the Queens Garden Trail.

We hiked the Queens Garden Trail to Peekaboo Loop, and then up Wall Street to the Rim Trail.

Hiking on the Queens Garden Trail.

Don’t push too hard.

The Queens Garden Trail is distinguished by large individual features.

Hiking on the Queens Garden Trail.

Descending.

It was great weather for hiking, clear skies and not too warm.

Hiking on the Queens Garden Trail.

Still descending.

As you drop down the single hoodoos turn into ridges and curtains of hoodoos.

The Wall of Windows on the Peekaboo Loop trail.

Nancy is down there somewhere.

After the Queens Garden Trail we continued onto the Peekaboo Loop trail.

The Wall of Windows on the Peekaboo Loop trail.

The Wall of Windows.

The Peekaboo Loop trail gets its name from the number of openings in the ridges.

The Wall of Windows on the Peekaboo Loop trail.

Nancy digging the view.

The Wall of Windows is one of the most spectacular sections of Bryce Canyon.

The Peekaboo part of the Peekaboo Trail.

Peekaboo!

After hiking the loop, we headed back up to the rim on the Navajo Loop through Wall Street.

Hiking up Wall Street to Sunset Point.

Hiking up Wall Street.

Wall Street was closed the last time we were here due to a flash flood, but they’ve repaired the erosion and re-opened the trail.

The entire hike was about six miles.

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