ESCAPING WINTER

We went for a hike in the Red Cliffs Desert Preserve  up above St. George.
These people were learning to rappel on the cliff just inside the park.

Can you see the face?  

Look for the little grass plant in the middle of the rocks.

This is it - brave little plant.

Grandpa took my picture ......

and I took his.

And some people from California offered to take one together.

At Zion N.P. - Lower Emerald Pool.

Upper Emerald Pool - taken by an Australian.
It was windy by the falls.

I loved the way the water caught the light.

End of the day at Zion.

We hiked to the end of the canyon, where you would enter the narrows if it weren't so full of water.  
People had built cairns out of smooth river rocks.  

There were hundreds of them and people were building more.

No food for the squirrel.

St. George temple - gorgeous!