The hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park cast a memorable spell and drew us in for days of hiking, birding, nature study, and exploration. The exquisite detail and melding colors of the hoodoos along the trail kept us walking: what would be around the next bend?
And around the next bend: more hoodoos, colors anew, birds (including a peregrine falcon swooshing by), vistas, and wildflowers. Yeh, a lot of tourists on the main trails but a bit off the beaten path we found our own world.
Bryce is certainly a mecca for international tourists. In fact, in a first for us, we had a National Park Volunteer from Germany giving the Geology Talk! (He also gives the talk in German.) At the Visitor Center, 2 of the 3 rangers/volunteers were speaking German to tourists!!
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| Bryce Canyon. Based on the Geology -- maybe it should be Bryce Eroding Cliff Edge National Park! |
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| Looking East |
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| The Paiutes think of the hoodoos as Legend People: Turned to stone by the coyote trickster! |
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| Rocks and Sky and Trail |
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| One of many blooms on a 4 foot stalk |
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| A variety of Indian Paintbrush found only in Bryce -- lovely muave to contrast the sandstone. |
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| Tiny flowers struggle to gain a root hold in the rocky soil |
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| More hoodoos -- we were treated to watching a full moon come up over hoodoo country. |
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| Look UP to see the rocks |
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| Look out to see the rocks. Look at the rocks! |
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