Whiteoaks Photo Album » 2011-01-15-zion » 2011-01-15 Saturday

Our first day was spent driving the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive and attempting to negotiate the icy Riverside Walk. We also drove Highway 9 through the park and long tunnel to the Canyon Overlook Trail and Checkerboard Mesa.

Zion has a beautiful extensive visitor center, one of the...	Relief model of Zion park and the Virgin River Canyon...	Jane and David look over books.	The bookstore has a section of night sky materials.
Wendy checks out merchandise.	Karen, Jane, and Jane making purchases at the visitor's...	Outside is another relief model of the canyon.	Canyon wall from the visitor's center.
Looking over the visitor center roof at the canyon wall.	Information desk at the visitor's center.	Canyon wall near the visitor center.	The Virgin River.
Canyon wall in Zion National Park.	At the Riverside Walk trail head they warn of icy...	Riverside Walk trail near the trail head.	Indeed most of the trail was very icy.
Canyon walls along the Riverside Walk trail.	Canyon walls along the Riverside Walk trail.	Canyon walls along the Riverside Walk trail.	Kristen poses along the Riverside Walk.
Looking back at the canyon walls in Zion.	Canyon walls along the Riverside Walk trail.	Mojo with Jane on the icy Riverside Walk trail on our...	Icicle formations along the canyon walls.
Along the Riverside Walk trail in Zion.	Along the Riverside Walk trail in Zion.	Spires in Zion, possibly at Big Bend.	River access on the Riverside Walk trail.
A thin waterfall on the canyon wall.	River access on the Riverside Walk trail.	David and Jane tested the water temperature.	David Hartley and Jane Benson have an anniversary soon.
Wendy, Mark, Kristen.	Wendy, Mark, and Kristen.	Kristen by the Virgin River in Zion.	Kristen poses in the chilly sunshine.
Kristen by the Virgin River in Zion.	Kristen stomps on the snow.	Kristen in Zion on the Riverside Walk trail.	Snow and ice on the Riverside Walk trail.
Canyon walls from the Riverside Walk trail.	Wendy and David walking carefully on the icy trail.	The Virgin River in Zion National Park.	Wendy admiring the canyon walls.
Wendy, Mark, and Kristen.	Wendy, Mark, and Kristen.	The Virgin River in Zion National Park.	Along the Riverside Walk trail in Zion.
Along the Riverside Walk trail in Zion.	Rocks and snow in Zion National Park.	The icy Riverside Walk trail in Zion.	The icy Riverside Walk trail.
Canyon walls along the Riverside Walk trail.	Nice patterns of tree shadow and footprints in the snow,...	Rock pillar at the Temple of Sinawava, Zion National Park.	Jane and David.
Jane Benson and David Hartley.	Icicles dangle over the canyon wall edge.	Canyon wall with icicles at Zion National Park.	Interesting arch relief "cave" formation in Zion.
Along the Zion scenic drive.	Canyon walls along the drive in Zion.	Stopping to look up at our eventual climb on highway 9,...	Ice flow in a canyon wall crevace.
Jane and Jane	Reading about the 1.1 mile tunnel on Highway 9 in Zion...	One of the gallery openings giving light and ventilation...	The gallery opening seen in context, on highway 9.
Canyon wall along highway 9.	Canyon walls along highway 9.	Canyon walls along highway 9.	Canyon walls along highway 9.
Canyon walls near the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion.	Fascinating stratification in the sandstone walls near...	The sandstone layers show ancient wind patterns of old...	Parking at the Canyon Overlook trailhead.
Sun silhouettes a peak in Zion National Park.	On the way to the Canyon Overlook trail.	Informational marker for the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Warning of the icy trail conditions.
Climbing icy staircases carved into the canyon wall.	Icy conditions on the trail.	Climbing the Canyon Overlook Trail, most of us opted not...	Railings helped climbed the Canyon Overlook Trail.
Looking back at the west side of the highway 9 tunnel.	Wendy and kristen along the Canyon Overlook Trail.	View from the Canyon Overlook Trail.	View from the Canyon Overlook Trail.
Kristen makes her way along the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Kristen at an overlook on the Canyon Overlook Trail.	In a rock crevice, Kristen asks mom to take a picture.	The Canyon Overlook Trail.
Along the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Vertical faults cross the horizontal strata.	A water flow paints the red rock black along the Canyon...	Along the Canyon Overlook Trail.
Wendy along the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Wendy and Kristen.	The trail passes under a very large overhang.	Looking out at the canyon from under the overhang rock.
Wendy and Kristen making their way along a provided...	Along the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Along the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Icy conditions finally forced us to turn back before...
On the left you can see the large overhang rock, along...	Looking back at the overhang rock and catwalk.	The Canyon Overlook Trail.	The large cantilevered rock was raining down on the trail...
The catwalk on the Canyon Overlook Trail.	Looking down the cliff.	Interesting tree barely hangs on.	Tree with canyon walls on the Canyon Overlook Trail.
Wendy and Kristen make their way along the Canyon...	Canyon wall patterns at Checkerboard Mesa overlook.	Canyon walls at Checkerboard Mesa.	Canyon walls at Checkerboard Mesa, though these don't...
Icicles along the roadside.	Icicles on the road cuts, Checkerboard Mesa.	Icicles along the road cuts at Checkerboard Mesa.	Canyon walls along highway 9, returning to Springdale.
Highway 9 returning to Springdale.	Canyon walls along highway 9.	Canyon walls and peaks along highway 9.	Great stratification near the Canyon Overlook Trail.
Ancient sand dunes show old wind patterns, near Canyon...	Canyon walls along highway 9.	Cactus at Zion National Park.	The gibbous moon rising through a dormant tree at Zion...
Everyone gathered for dinner at the Canyon Ranch Motel,...	Mojo winning at poker with the family.

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