Scout’s Lookout and Angel’s Landing

Today we put the twins to the hiking test and hiked up to Scout’s Lookout. The roughly two-mile (one-way) hike over a paved trail switch-backs up a cliff-face, ambles through Refrigerator Canyon, and then climbs 21 short, steep switch-backs up Walter’s Wiggles. In short, they handled it as well as the rest of us.

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Kolob Terrace

Kolob Terrace can be reached by hiking from the bottom of Zion Canyon to the West Rim, but there’s an easier way. We drove up the Kolob Terrace Road out of Virgin. We stopped to find a few geocaches since some of the road is outside the national park. Just beyond the Hop Valley trailhead […]

Zion Canyon

Today we headed to Zion Canyon, planning to do some easy hikes to see how well Carolyn and Elizabeth (5 year-old twins) would do. We arrived at the visitor center a little before 10:30 am. Signs were already posted that the parking lot was full, but we drove in anyway. We had no luck, so […]