Today we're at Bryce Canyon National Park doing
the Mossy Cave Hike. It's an easy one mile out and back...
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're in Utah at Bryce Canyon
National Park. If you're new to the channel this is April and I'm Wayne. We do a video every Thursday.
So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey! Welcome to today's trail talk with April of Go Travel On The
Cheap. Today we are doing the Mossy Cave Trail and I'll tell you about it. It is at the north end of
the park about four miles east of highway 12. It is approximately a mile out and back trail. It is
a stream-side walk up to a mossy grotto that fills with spectacular icicles in winter and dripping
mosses in summer. Did you get some of the sound wind in the pines and the sound of moving water?
It's cathartic--means it's healing it's you know therapeutic it's good for you oh it does...
It has a waterfall but we'll see how much of the waterfall it actually has.
My sister loves it but let's see. We made it to the bottom of the lower waterfall super easy walk. Ohhh! Cool!
What do you think about the waterfall? I think it's water falling!
It is very pretty i wonder what causes the coloration.
It's really pretty with the water and the hoodoos i like it oh yeah.
To the left we'll go see the natural spring seeping from a rocky cliff
watering plants as it has for untold time to the right we saw water canyon that is
fed by the Tropic ditch oh it's an irrigation canal dug by Mormon pioneers in the late 1800s
historically this wash only flowed during periods of melting snow but today irrigation water flows
from May to October. A little hiking etiquette for you people on the way up have the right of way
and the people on the way down need to yield to the people on the way up.
This grotto form has an underground spring permeates the bedrock and water
slowly dissolves the calcite that bonds the silts and muds of the Claron Formation.
Mossy Cave Hike pretty easy got a little bit of an incline not too bad little baby windows
what if they're a hole like that it's not an arch it's a window. Well here
that one is more of an arch probably this is more of a window if i had the other
map i could read it to you but there there are specific formations that have specific
definitions right so a window is different than a than a arch which is different than a bridge
like we saw yesterday. Didn't know there was that many differences
the Mossy Cave and Waterfall Hike is a point eight mile hike out and back
super easy you did a mile with going to the upper park yeah there's some shoot-offs
that you can go hike around a lot of them are closed off but there's a lot of them still open.
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