As luck would have it, while driving on the 75mpg roads, a rock strikes my windshield leaving a crack. I observe the crack grow longer and longer. Finally, over a 2 hour period the crack settling at 8 inches right across the windshield. Crap, should have gotten the rental car insurance, but who ever does? O well, lunch stop at Carl’s Junior, we don’t have them on the East coast, made up for it. Yummalicious junior double bacon cheeseburger.
Cedar Break NP – 1 night of front country camping on my way to Bryce. This is a very small park (www.nps.gov/cebr) at 10,000 foot elevation. The major attraction is the amazing amphitheater with hundreds of hoodoos that have slowly formed from wind, rain and freeze/thaw. This is just a warm up for Bryce and its amphitheater.

At +10,000 foot elevation my 6 mile trail run was interesting. I ran from the parks camp ground to and around the Alpine Pond Loop Trail. Obviously due to the elevation, the air was very thin. I was fine on the flats and downhill, but the second I hit any sort of uphill bump or greater, I was done and had to walk that section and felt like I was sucking air through a straw.
Onward to Bryce – 76 miles east of Cedar Break. I go straight to the North Campground, do the self check-in for camp site #107 on loop D. It’s for tent campers only. Quiet and far from the generators that run on the gas guzzling houses on wheels (Winnebagos). The camp site was pretty empty and reservations are probably never needed. I can’t imagine this place ever filled up unless you show up on a Friday or Saturday evening around 6pm. But I got there early and had many sites to choose from. BTW, I generally don’t camp in campgrounds and prefer backcountry. However, at Bryce, most of the amazing scenery is viewed from the rim trail and just below. All backcountry camping is pretty far from their with limited supplies of water.


By complete luck, my timing at Bryce coincided with the annual Perseids Meteor shower. Once a year earth travels through bunch of space junk and you can observer about 80 shooting stars per hour. Bryce is known to have optimal conditions for star gazing since there are now citys anywhere close to artificially brighten the sky. Photographing the shower is particularly challenging however and I woke each morning around 4am to give it a try. Hiking into the canyon from the rim trail was spooky in the pitch black, it was a new moon.

6 comments:
What an adventure! Thanks for sharing it! (I'm just going to pretend that I didn't read about the collapsing part.)
LOLOL! Next time you can join us!
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