1. A group of hikers takes a rest break at
"Walter's Wiggles," one of the park's man-made wonders on the trail
up to Angel's Landing.
During the first week of July, 1996, twenty-three participants, mostly from the Austin chapter, flew to Las Vegas, rented vans and camped and hiked across the southern part of Utah. We visited Zion and Bryce National Parks and hiked Snow Canyon and Pine Valley State parks.
1. A group of hikers takes a rest break at
"Walter's Wiggles," one of the park's man-made wonders on the trail
up to Angel's Landing.
2. The first of two backpacking groups prepares to begin the two-day
hike downriver through the Virgin River Narrows
in Zion National Park.
3. Dayhikers rest on the hike upriver through
the Virgin River Narrows. The hike starts at the Temple of Sinawava
and ends at Orderville Canyon in the Narrows.
4. Steve cools off in the cascading stream just before entering the
Narrows.
5. Kati checks to make sure we are properly bunched up on the
Sand Bench trail in Zion.
6. View of Hidden Canyon, Zion.
7. Steve, Kati, Kathy and Paul at the
East Zion Canyon Overlook.
8. Petroglyphs on a side canyon wall,
East Zion.
9. Group shot at Checkerboard Mesa, Zion.
10. Natural Bridge in Bryce National Park.
11. View from Navajo Trail, Bryce.
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