Leaving the extreme heat of Death Valley behind us, we spent a night in Cedar City UT and enjoyed dinner at the local classic Milt's Steak House. Next morning, the last day of March, we journeyed east toward Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef NP, Goblin Valley State Park, Natural Bridges NP, Cedar Mesa, Grand Gulch, and eventually, home.
Bryce Canyon
"Hell of a place to lose a cow." That's how one pioneer rancher summed up the topography of these tens of thousands of hoodoos.
According to the Paiute people, what we today call the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon were once the Legend People, and they were of many kinds -- birds, animals, lizards and such -- but they had the power to make themselves look like people. For some reason, the Legend People were bad, and eventually Coyote turned them all to stone, just as we see them today, standing in rows, sitting, holding on to each other.
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| Quite the Crowd of Legend People |
As awesome as the views are from the top, hiking down among the hoodoos is more awe-inspiring yet.
Two nights at Brrrryce was enough. Next, on toward southeast Utah.
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