Saturday morning, June 7, Les, Kat, and I got up at our regular 5AM so we could go hiking with Robert in Zion Canyon. We did the Observation Point hike. It’s 8 miles round trip, with a rise of 2150 feet from the floor of the canyon to the overlook, where we could overlook Angel’s Landing (which is 1500 feet above the floor of the canyon.) I was feeling about 90% well, with just a bit of my cough left, so I wanted to test my mettle and see if I could actually do a good long hike (we’re trying to get in shape to hike to Havasupai at the end of this month.) I did OK, just huffing and puffing, chugging along at the back of our little group (Kat took the lead spot.) But my arthritic knees had me going slow enough on the downhill half of the hike that Mom, Kat, and Robert did another side hike to Hidden Canyon without me (probably another mile or so each way.) We were early enough in our departure time that it was nice and shady as we hiked up the hill and we didn’t pass any other hikers until we were on our way down – then we passed hikers going up all the way down. I got to the bottom first, having bypassed the Hidden Canyon side trip, and waited about an hour for them before they arrived. I’m attaching a photo from our hike, taken up at Observation Point – Angel’s Landing is down just over Kat’s right shoulder.
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