Wednesday, June 2, 2010


We made it to Walter's Wiggles! This set of switch backs takes you straight up a cliff face. This picture does not do it justice! I'm starting to wonder just how high we are getting....

We were almost to the top of the Wiggles, now I don't really want to know how high we are getting....

A few minutes later we were on top of Scouts Lookout!!

Another view from the Lookout. There was one single railing right here where we were looking off, the rest of the lookout had nothing, this is when I decided my kids will not have the option to climb up here until they are at least 16, or maybe never....

We thought this little Sandstone hill was all that was between us and the Landing, there was a sign that said, "Angel's Landing 0.5 miles!! We thought we were almost there!! We could not have been more wrong! What you can't see in this pic is the part of the hill where you have to scale around the side of the hill on nothing but slick Sandstone that is all but straight up and down, with nothing to hold on to except a chain. If you look on the internet of pictures of the climb you will notice there are no pics of this part of the trail. The reason for that is, you can't do anything but hold on for dear life all the way around it!!

We defied death and conquered the big Sandstone hill, just to round the corner and see this! The spine of Angel's Landing, can you see the tiny people climbing up it? A guy that was standing by us called this little flat spot we were resting on before the spine, "Decision Point," we had to decided whether we were going to continue or turn back!!

We made it!! We walked out to the very tippy point and sat down to enjoy the views for a minute!! The very nice German guy that was taking our pictures for us was scaring the crap out of us, I had to turn my head while he walked around to get different shots then he would bring us the camera and say, "Have a luk, Have a luk," I thought I was going to throw up just watching him walk around up there like we were not 6,000 feet off the ground on slick sandstone with drop offs all around us!!

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