2020 Winter Camping Trip Day14, 2020/12/9
The third day in Bryce, we hiked Figure-8 hike. The hike is called Figure-8, because the shape of the hike is like 8: two small loops are combined. The hike can be only one loop. 7.2 mile +/-1500 feet elevation change. First we started Queen's Garden trail, then did Peekaboo Loop trail, then came back via Navajo Loop trail. This was another amazing hike! Because this is a main park area and each loop is only 4 miles, there were more hikers, compared to 8 mile Fairyland loop hike, but still not crowded since it was December and social distancing was well done.
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| Wow! |
From the beginning, it was non-stopping wowing hike. First the countless hoodoos were reflecting morning sun and the color was wonderful. Orange, white, brown hoodoos are all over in the entire visible scene in my eyes.  |
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You can feel walking in the hodoos. Hoodoos are on my right, left, ahead, behind, above and sometimes crossing the hoodoos. Since there are so many hoodoos, sometimes National Park Service made a hole in the hoodoos for the trail (right picture).
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| Windows |
It was tough to pick a lunch spot, because everywhere was great, but we got the best of best spot. The great spot to see windows! (left picture). 2 different hikers passed said to us, "The best lunch spot." There are a lot of windows in Bryce, but this particular window is the iconic window. These windows are used to explain about windows on the Bryce Canyon National Park brochure. These windows are really big and maybe near future it might be no longer window due to fall of the upper portion of the window. Indeed because of possible rock falls, the part of Navajo trail and Wall street trail is closed every winter, although I saw a quite few people violated and walking Wall street trail. I actually took pictures of those violators. Did you hike Wall street trail on 2020/12/9? I have a proof. In National Park, it is not allowed to hike with a dog either. I saw handful people on a trail with dogs. I have a proof of those, too. Be careful.
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| More hoodoos |
Since hoodoos are everywhere and really wonderful, I took a lot of pictures. I can't post all of them, so one more for this hike. In the right picture, there are different layers of colors. Upper is more white and then lower is orange. I had seen a picture of hoodoos, but it was totally a different experience seeing hoodoos in person. Hoodoos blew my mind!
At the half way point of Peekaboo Loop trail, there is a restroom (of course not a flush one), but open only in summer. It is probably because there are tours with horse in summer. Yup, they don't walk. Mr.N and I were talking, those type of people are probably shocked the toilet is not a flush one. Also we imagined that the tour guide has to mention in advance that the restroom would be not a flush one. I was glad it was in winter: no tour/no horse.
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| Mossy Cave |
After Figure-8 hike, we did a mini hike. Mossy Cave Trail, which is only 0.8 mile. As the name indicates, the trail goes to the mossy grotto (left). There are a lot of icicles in the cave, which was interesting. This trail is isolated from other area: actually this trail can be accessed without going to the entrance booth, meaning free.
On this day we completed 2 weeks of trip, meaning we accumulated laundry. So we went to laundromat and did laundry. It was nice to get soap smelled clean clothes again! Then we again went to Subway and saw 4 cats! 4!!! Black, tabby, Siamese, and a small tuxedo!
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