{"id":49,"date":"2021-08-28T11:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T11:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2021-08-28T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T17:58:38","slug":"day-four-zion-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Day four: Zion National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had a wonderful day today, 17,940 steps attest to our getting around Zion Canyon, at least a little. It was a hot day today (I think it topped out at 102), so we started early. We left the RV at 6:30, were in the park by 7 AM, then up at a trailhead via shuttle bus by 7:30. The plan was to get our hiking\/walking done before it got too hot. We were successful, back at the visitor\u2019s center by lunchtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navajo sandstone was the word today. We saw a lot of it! The landscape here is incredible, and it was a real blessing to take it all in. There were a lot of people in the park, but it never felt crowded. We shared things with more than a few deer and a flock of wild turkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We plan to go back into the park tomorrow for two more trails, and a drive through a one mile tunnel that dates back to about 1930. It should all be excellent. Tomorrow night is our first driver\u2019s meeting, then Sunday is a travel day. More about that tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The shuttle buses were great<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We started the day with a hike along the Virgin River. If you keep going, the river becomes the trail through \u201cThe Narrows\u201d. There the canyon is very narrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mountains of sandstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More views of the Virgin River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More astounding mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I wasn\u2019t kidding about turkeys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a wonderful day today, 17,940 steps attest to our getting around Zion Canyon, at least a little. It was a hot day today (I think it topped out at 102), so we started early. We left the RV at 6:30, were in the park by 7 AM, then up at a trailhead via […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-park-tour-2021"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}