Zion Trip - Day 3

The third day at Zion we just wanted to hike the whole day. We got up, had a breakfast of oatmeal, got water from the spring and headed down the trail towards Cable Mountain. The Cable Mountain trail was about 2 miles long and very interesting.

There had been a burn there several years ago and most of the large trees were burned but it made for some very interesting pictures. It was hot that day and we were pretty tired by the end of the day. We also hiked the Deer Trap Trail. We hiked a total of 10 miles.



















Cable Mountain was pretty awesome because it was at the top of a very high cliff in the middle of Zion. If you're brave enough, you can get close to the edge and take pictures of the canyon below which is actually the main part of Zion Canyon and an incredible view. We could see Angels Landing, the west rim trail, the Observation Trail and Weeping Rock. We had no idea what the view was going to be like when we started out, but we were so glad we did this hike first. It put the whole rest of the week in the canyon in perspective. The cable was built in the early 1900s to lower lumber to the bottom of the canyon. By wagon it would take several days to get there, but by cable it only took an hour or so.
Angel's Landing is a hike we did later in the week. Yes, we hiked all the way to the top of the mountain.... even me, the scared-of-heights weenie. Pictures from that hike coming later. We also did The Narrows and I'll have pictures of that later, too. You can see the buses in the canyon in this picture. Nobody is allowed to drive their cars into the canyon because there is pretty much no parking so they have a very efficient bus service taking folks into the canyon.