It's been a good week to go to Zion. Got some snow fall around mid week which made some interesting shooting.
On a side note the crowds seem to be growing, this is the first week I've noticed a big increase in the number of people in the park. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing but more a sign that the isolated feeling is ready to pass.
-Wednesday started out a snowy mess but with some patience the sun started to shine and some blue skies decided to show face.
1. This creek was dried up by today( Friday.)
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2. Spent a good hour or more at this fall.
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3. This has got to be one of my favorite spots of the Virgin in the park. Lots of boulders and rapids.
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-Thursday I was going to go back in the park and search for more waterfalls from the run off but my car decided to turn off on a side road to Grafton, I accepted and went with it. Pushed my little subaru as far as I felt comfortable up a muddy rutted hill and then gave it a park. Hiked up to a view point through the mud, scrambled up a boulder field, slip n slid through more mud all in a pair of low top chuck taylor's. Forgot my boots at home. Ooops! I'm definitely heading back to this area, too many comps too little time.
4. Overlooking Zion
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5. Eagle Crags
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-Friday I headed back out to the park to try and get some more of the falls from wednesday. Much much more visiters today compared to wednesday. When I got to the falls there was a peaceful couple and a family of 4 or so climbing around on the rocks, which was cool all except their little brat of a son( probably 12 yrs old or so.) He apparently was pissed to be there and was screaming about how he wanted to go home. Throwing a tissie fit like a little **** and chucking rocks as hard as he could at whatever he could hit. I was sure I was going to walk in front of one of his projectiles. All the while his parents didn't say a thing, whatever happened to the days when parents actually gave a damn about things like this? I would have gotten wooped or at least put in my place if I'd acted like that in public when I was a kid.
Anyway, I'm thinking I'll go back out to this spot tomorrow, if I can get to the top of the falls and find some pools I think they'll put off some good reflections of the peaks behind them at sunset as they really catch the fading light.
6. Pot of gold is in the pic below.
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7. The light really put off some gold reflections in the middle of the falls.
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8. That does it.
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