Zion & the Drive to Vegas

[fa:p:a=6-12-zion-and-i15,id=550195579,j=r,s=s,l=i]Kerry and I woke up this morning somewhat early (for vacation), packed up all our stuff, grabbed some of the continental breakfast that the hotel offered and headed into the park. We wanted to go do a couple of short hikes in the park before it got hot, and before we had to leave for Vegas. Charlie Linkhart had recommended to me to do the Narrows Hike, although we didn’t have the time to do the full hike (which requires using the river as part of the trail), we did at least go as far as we could up the canyon which provided some really awesome views of massive cliff sides. We also did the very short walk to Weeping Rock, which is a rock edge that leached water drips off of from the core of the rock.
 
[fa:p:a=6-12-zion-and-i15,id=550034436,j=l,s=s,l=i]After our short visit to Zion (a visit I would like to repeat someday, with cooler weather and more time). We headed to Vegas. We needed to get into Vegas before 5PM so we could pick up our show tickets. As most people know, any road to Vegas leads through a desert, and as with any desert there wasn’t much to see except the rising temperature gauge in the car. It peaked at 102 during our drive, and Vegas wasn’t much cooler, but I’ll leave posting about Vegas until tomorrow.