What a night…. What a day! First the night: had several bad dreams waking up screaming! Not fun! At 5.50 am I heard someone else scream from a tent… not fun either! Luckily the sun was now soon to get up and that calmed me a little bit – except for the two things that hit my tent and made it shake. I finally unzipped and looked outside if anything was happening, but all seemed quiet. Went back to sleep a bit!
At 8.00 am I got out of the tent and had a shower to wake up. Felt like someone new. Got all my stuff together for a day in the park… I thought! The biggest surprise came from the National Park Service: they start a controlled fire at Sunset Campground and west of it. I wanted to take pictures of the prairie dogs, but that place was almost burning! I bicycled to the visitor center and took the shuttle to Bryce Point.
A new hike: the Peek-a-boo! I found it a bit scary to hike all by myself into this vast canyon, but soon I picked up a Dutch family and tagged along. This hike is superb! A great down walk into the canyon among all those hoodoo’s. Formidastic! Lovely!!! Good for more nightmares of walking stones, since the Native people here believed all those hoodoo’s are bad people turned to stone!
Walked all the way down, got across the dry river and then back up along the Navajo loop trail (side that was closed just two weeks ago).
That was also new for me. As I was getting up to the rim at Sunset Point, smoke of the fire came into my lungs. This cannot be healthy!
It got really smoky at the rim and my plan of staying there in the afternoon was gone. As I headed to the lodge to take the shuttle a buck deer showed up about 10 meters away.
Awesome! Waiting for the bus was in the smoke, so I really was happy to get out and I thought I was lucky I had seen it yesterday! Also, had I been in Escalante, there would have been smoke, ‘cause the whole area is now polluted. Too bad, because this area is normally crystal clear of exhaust! What to do tomorrow? I’ll sleep on it (peacefully, I hope!).
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