Hoodoo You Love?

Bryce Canyon, Utah
Friday, September 15, 2006

OK, Zion is cool, but Bryce Canyon is UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Everything seemed unbelievable today, including th that the temperature this morning registered 95 degrees and by nightfall it was just barely 50 degrees. When the elevation gets near 10,000 feet above sea level, 50 degrees seems sooo much colder! We didn't think it could get better than Zion, but we had a sneaking suspicion, based on all those who urged us to see Bryce, that Bryce just might be more fabulous.

The pièce de résistance of this 37-mile round-trip drive are the Hoodoos which are thousands of delicately carved spires that rise in brilliant color from the amphitheaters of Bryce. Millions of years of wind, water and geologic mayhem have shaped and etched the pink cliffs. Doesn't seem fair that when my face is exposed to the elements that it only gets craggier! The Hoodoos got their name because for hundred of years, the Blackfoot Indians believed that this amazing place was sacred and the home of spirits.