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Okay, so three and a half hours to Las Vegas. Let's go.
Good morning! Well, the sun beat us to the punch with the whole waking up this morning.
Which is okay, because I have been so jet-lagged and sleeping like, six hours a night.
But we got ten hours last night.
Now it's breakfast time.
Good morning.
So, protip, if you're not really good at planning, like me?
You want to come to a really popular park like Zion?
There is a camping ground at the Quality Inn, which is just near the south entrance, so
that's where we are camping.
And we have that awesome riverside campsite.
It's like 40 bucks a night but it's kind of standard.
So, it's not about option if all the campgrounds are fairly relative.
So, here we are at Stop 7, Weeping Rock, but we are going to Observation Point.
Angels Landing is the more popular hike in the park but, we did that ten years ago.
So, we decided we don't need to repeat that but, we're going to go to Observation
Point which actually looks down on Angels Landing.
So, it's less popular, it's supposed to be more spectacular, although, I think the hike
is a little bit harder so, I'll let you know.
Mum knows a thing or two about rocks.
Just a little.
This is a sedimentary rock, you've got all these layers but...
Yeah, so this area was all under water so there was shallow season this area.
And you can see the diagonal lines are water marks as water was flowing, and as the level
of the water was changing and sediments were being deposited.
You have an accumulation and accumulation and accumulation here in this area for about
six million years of the sediments.
And you can see how they build up over time.
Now I have them in my background."
It's okay.
Mum, you should be a tour guide.
Oh, thank you.
I would love to.
A rock tour guide.
So this trail has been beautiful so far.
This is way prettier than the Angels Landing trail.
So I'm really excited to see what's on top
There's someone playing a flute up there, and it's really pretty.
Now, definitely in the sun.
If you are doing it, bring a hat and sunscreen and lots of water.
About a mile from the end now and that's how it's looking.
It's pretty cool, really.
This is the moment.
We've made it to the end of the trail and so have few other people.
I'm excited to see the view.
So here we are.
Absolutely beautiful. I think that down there is Angel's Landing. I can actually see people on it.
So we're way above here actually.
I feel like I'm on the top of Zion but this is actually a way better view.
Pro tip, everybody is over there because that is like the viewpoint but this one is pretty
much the same.
And there's nobody here, so mum and I are going to have our lunch here, in relative silence.
Well, that was kind of sad.
Said goodbye to mom because she's got to back to school.
She's teaching, so I'm going to be doing the rest of this trip so, "Whoa," which is fine.
I travel solo all the time so, next stop is Brice, the grocery store and then I'm going
to Grand Escalante's staircase, Grand Escalante.
National monument, because I heard there's a really dope hike trail I want to try out.
So, at least you're with me. Let's go.