Hey you guys!
Join me on my journey through Bryce Canyon National Park
The beauty of coming to Bryce Canyon on the off season is you just pull right on up to the top
Right to the entrance no lines no waiting
Hey, how you doing today, I got a national parks pass I
Love it
How much does that saving me today
Love it saving $30
Um yeah, I definitely need a map
Yes, ma'am you have a wonderful day
As you heard we saved 30 dollars by buying the national parks Pass
What's nice about national parks pass is that you can go to any of the national parks national forests
Anywhere in the United States for an entire year for 80 bucks
Just this trip would have been 30 alone
a couple weeks ago. I was over at the Grand Canyon that saved me another 30
I've almost paid for my pass in just two parks
And I am made to be free {music}
Guys I want you to see we're putting ice cleats on the reason being is we need to make sure that we have enough safe
Way to get down
This horse trail that we're technically not supposed to be on but
It's not it's winter, but we haven't got the snow that you normally get
So we don't have a lot of patchy spots, but we do have
Enough to make us fall down, so it's a good idea to put these on
This thing is so beautiful
You don't want to stop walking. I'm dreading
The walk back this whole thing has been completely downhill
With ice snow mud
It's all of it everything
But I can't stop walking because of the beauty it's ABsolutely amazing
The only way to see a national park
We are literally have Bryce Canyon to ourselves. We're on some horse trail
Technically we're not even supposed to be on it, but since it's offseason. We figure. It's perfectly safe
We haven't seen another person on this trail and we've been on it for over an hour and a half
It gives you a totally new perspective of seeing our great national parks
When you have it all to yourself unlike Disneyland when it's in the summertime
There's millions of people from all over the world you can't enjoy the nature to yourself
This is the way to do it come in the offseason. Yeah, it's cold
Yeah, there might be ice might be mud, but you're out here. Enjoying the elements
Trekking uphill now. It's a heck of a climb. But the beauty again. It's absolutely amazing so
Just check this out guys
Every turn is just magnificent
Absolutely magnificent Tell us a
Little bit about hoodoos i've always been fascinated with them
Yeah
So it's all limestone at each layer with little layers of sandstone and mudstone in between so those are weaker layers
So that's why you see when you look over down at the Hoodoo. Why there's a layer that looks like?
Yeah, yeah, so that's where that's been eroded away, so this is the clairon formation that we're looking at so this
limestone was formed in Lake Clairon about sixty to forty million years ago, and so that Lake was at sea level and
It was a shallow lake. It was about 15 feet deep which is like crazy shallow for a lake
So it was just during that time. It was really susceptible to different climate change so you get different
Environments, which you can see in the rock layers, so there's two members of the clairon formation
There's the pink member which was formed at a time when the lake was really iron rich, so that's why it's that pink color
It's that iron oxidizing in the rock so you can think of a rusty nail. We have our our white layer
Which is a time when there was no iron in that lake and then on the top you can of our hoodoos?
You can see there's like these beige-y color rock and that's a special type of limestone called dolostone
So dolostone is different because it has magnesium in it instead of calcium and magnesium
Makes it more resistant to erosion
So it's a stronger rock and we call those our hoodoo helmets
Yeah, so
During our monsoon season in August in September we just get huge torrential downpour of rain you
Probably can't even hike out here when it starts raining. Yeah, it's just too dangerous
Yeah, I imagine to have like lots of slides as well right yeah. Oh, yeah, so it's it's always changing
I mean, this is still pretty brittle right yeah, I mean it's almost like a sand right. It's not yeah. It's oh yeah
It's very very
loose very
yeah our maintenance crews
Stay busy. Yeah, they stay busy. I'm sure yeah, but yeah, they say when it pours get indoors a
Safety tip from our Ranger here Ranger Emily when it pours get indoors
Tomorrow is next day planning you know i don't plan that far in advance oh my god
We gotta find a place to stay then oh
We did I thought we're gonna go check it out
Well if we're gonna save money
We're gonna go check out some cheap hotels
Yeah, that's what I was gonna look at which ones we were gonna check out. Okay. Go ahead booking.com. Yeah, I'm on it okay and
Give it a look at so we can go back to the Bryce Canyon Resort remember that we said looks
Yeah, that looks decent from the outside
How much was out of it there's Ruby's Inn but that's for
$30 more total tonight. yeah i'm not paying that
Um
There's Bryce Canyon pines
All I care about is it being clean. I'm not about the fancy
I want to be able to do trips all the time okay
So let's go ask him if we can see a room, then that's us do it. That's what I'm saying
We just go over there. Yeah, like we did last night. I mean that guy let us look at the room
Hey, you know yeah, I think he took a little bit offense to it, but you know
Once but he took some coaxing or like some
Right well the thing is is keep in mind is
it's a
$39 including tax room at night. You know I want to know that it's clean exactly you know I mean absolutely
I don't care that it's an old motel all I care about is. It's clean
I
Want to show you what you get in offseason
At Bryce Canyon if you go a little out of the way
To Panguitch it's a little town inside Utah just about 17 miles outside the park
it's an older motel, but have your
Check this out
It's a modern looking older building with lots of little character nice. Cushy bed
You can't beat it look at the shower. I mean they've done a really good job for an odor hole
older hotel I
Quite think it's quite amazing for the money. You know I am sure that
I
Will definitely put their website on
The link below so guys I'm here at penguin. It's a little tiny town
Outside of Bryce Canyon National Park, it's got lots of character to it
it's obviously the offseason so almost everything's closed, but the cool thing is you can get a hotel really inexpensive here and
Do this journey relatively cheap you can fly into Salt Lake City rent a car I rented a car for
$71 for four days. I don't need it for the four days, but at least I have it
you can also fly into Las Vegas and
you can always get trips to Vegas really cheap and take full advantage of
the close parks that are near Vegas whether at Zion National Park or Bryce Canyon National Park, so
Don't forget to get out there and enjoy life
Travel more and start living
This is why you always get a rental car. You never use your own vehicle
i got a rental car for
$71 for four days
i got it off priceline
Obviously you want to do this incognito mode because if you start researching
early
It will start raising your prices
Yeah, we got to do it, it's it's about a mud bog, but this is really a mud bog Nissan
Yeah this might not be a good idea well hell with it. That's why we got a rental car
We're not gonna dig it out
But we're gonna we're gonna mud bog through this
Bring me back to my roots when I was a kid during my Volkswagen bug
Down the dirt roads on the way to school every morning
But this is what makes it a real adventure mud bogging in a Nissan Versa
That keeps locking me in here hey, you know we got to show you let's see what the outside
The little mud bogging Nissan Versa as you can tell
It's slick as snot
But it's doing good our little Enterprise rental car is done good
some of this mud off the windshield
yeah because with the sun reflecting on it
Okay, we're gonna walk through this real quick and hope we make it
Yeah, it's gonna make it. Oh my god. Yeah, this is mud-bogging Versa
All right, so we're going to give everybody a pro tip when coming to the Bryce Canyon
the one thing I would suggest is stopping in the small town outside of
Bryce Canyon called Panguitch it's a little bitty small town
But they have a grocery store there the prices are pretty close to normal if you wait until you get to
the Bryce Canyon City
The grocery store, that's inside Ruby's Inn is
Outrageous, I mean I was looking at a thing if Crystal Light was like seven dollars, so
You obviously want to try to save as much money as possible
You know get to a grocery store before
You come to this town
Of Canyon City because once you get out here. You're in a desolate wasteland. There's nothing here it That's it
It's just a tourist place. That's it at that point
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