Crystal Inn Cedar City

Travel Blogs from Cedar City

Day 10 - The Day the Angel's Landed!

A travel blog entry by cusan

... Basically Angel’s Landing is a thin flake of rock that sticks out of the canyon wall into the middle of the main Zion valley. It has spectacular views, up and down the canyon and also from its knife edge top, with drops of 1500 feet one side and 900 feet the other, straight down. It a very severe hike, in both high gains, exposure and narrow slippery ledges. The top has chains to help the hiker, but they are not continuous There are areas you are expected to walk ...

Zion - just another day in paradise

A travel blog entry by loupsvoyagent

... les cam�ras sont un peu � la limite du ridicule, car c'est le concours de qui a la plus gros appareil photo et tr�pied (car tous se prom�nent avec un tr�pied sur l'�paule et le gros sac � dos pour le kit de lentilles et de filtres; et les pauvres, �a a l'air tellement lourds leurs appareils...et les sentier ne sont pas toujours faciles). Au coucher du soleil, le petit pont et plein de photographes...on dirait un match de tennis de Nadal...ou de boxe avec Bute.

...

Zion for the day

A travel blog entry by argieuk

This is a top pick!

... we were walking along side the stream most of the time. There were 2 old cabins along the way, used in the 30's, which are protected exhibits, although they are in pretty bad repair! Anyway, we eventually got to the double arches, to discovere that its a double arch cavern, very similar to the cave dwellings I've already told you about, but without any houses in it. Double arch, because there are two layers of protective rock above. A bit disappointing I ...

The day before the move.

A travel blog entry by compils

... time to say goodbye to South Pasadena.

We moved into the suite at Ramona at about 5:00 and were amazingly tired by the day. It must be the stress of major change that takes all our energy. But the real exhaustion is yet to come. Haley is prowling all over her new digs. I told her not to bother to rub and mark the furniture, since we will be moving on. So she decided to rub and mark Kathleen’s foot. Most appropriate, I ...

I found new road signs in Utah

A travel blog entry by babybluetrip

... so other bikers, one couple from Germany and another couple from Texas. All of us were having a great time.
Well, we got the to top of the road, took photos, oohed and awed on the sights, then headed down the mountain. The top of the road the elevation was 9115'. By that time I had remembered that I had a sweatshirt in my top box so I had that on and my heated gloves, with no heat, and it was warmer up there than it had been at the Ranger ...