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Zion National Park/Yankee Doodle Canyon - Day 2

I just love the colors! The intensity of the water that must have flooded through, polishing these walls and creating miles of masterpiece! I would both love and hate to be in the canyon when those waters came rushing through—flood waters have always intrigued me, rolling and swirling as they do like a cement mixer of debris and destruction. My mind sometimes wanders through cartoonish surf-board rides atop such a flood, but alas, I am only human and not protected by plot armor. As much as it would thrill me to see such flooding in person, I will be sticking to YouTube videos, I think.

Hiking, ClimbingShanna IrvingMarch 31, 2019Yankee Doodle CanyonUtah, Zion National Park, hiking, canyoneering, Yankee Doodle Canyon, Shanna Irving Comments

Mount Yonah/Unicoi Adventure

That is when the monsoon hit and turned the sloped granite of the approach trail to a slip ’n slide. We did our best to work together as a team to safely get down from our climbing camp perch with our gear, but it was slow going. As Shanna and I were in a rush to get to the wedding, we grabbed our gear and ran down the trail to get back to our cars, the lodge, the shower, and the wedding. On the way to the ceremony, it was a torrential downpour to the point where we had to drive incredibly slow because even with the windshield wipers raging it was impossible to see through it…

Climbing, HikingJoshua ForesterAugust 11, 2018Mount YonahGeorgia, Mount Yonah, Unicoi, Anna Ruby Falls, climbing, hiking Comments