2020 Winter Camping Trip Day18, 2020/12/13
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Snowy Bryce
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At
the motel we stayed, we saw an RV in the parking lot. Actually the next
room to us was a couple who parked the RV. Why were they staying a motel
even though they had everything at RV? That was a huge RV (rental) with
kitchen, dining table, toilet, bed, heater, water, etc. Weird and waste
of money I guess. Anyway, at -10F, we headed back to Bryce Canyon
National Park to see hoodoos with snow. There are not many opportunities
to see such things.
View on a sunny day after snow storm was ah-may-zing. These are a couple of pictures we saw from several viewpoints. Although we had already been at all the viewpoints before snow, the scenery was very different. Hoodoos with white decoration on the white carpet. Wonderful, wonderful.
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Snowy Bryce
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Snowy Brice
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We had already hiked a lot of day hikes, but there was one left. We did that.
Hat Shop. I didn't know why it is called Hat shop, but when we reached it, we understood. Hat Shop hike is an out and back hike of 4 miles. The brochure says that it is a hike to see a cluster of balanced-rock hoodoos. I didn't get an idea of "balanced-rock" Well it is always easier to see than hear thousands words of description, especially if it is not your language.
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| "hat" on the top of hoodoos |
First I saw several hoodoos that have a rock on the top. I thought, "Oh wow interesting!" Then, I saw hundreds of that together lined up just below the cliff, and I got it that that is the hat shop! It was hard to decide which hat I should shop! This is again not the most popular hike in winter, so the entire 4 miles there was no one. Lucky!
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| Hat Shop |
In spring and falls, a popular backpacking route in Bryce is Under-the-Rim-Trail. Under-the-Rim-Trail is one way backpacking around 30 miles and people take a shuttle to go back to the starting point. In winter Park shuttle is not running, so nobody backpacks. During COVID, I don't know the shuttle was running in the summer 2020, though. I don't know either if the shuttle will run in 2021 summer. Since the Hat Shop is on the Under-the-Rim trail, it doesn't get much attention from day hikers, especially in winter. It was good for us since we love solitude.
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| coyote |
After the Hat Shop hike, we spotted a coyote. Native Americans in the area, it is sinawava in their language. In their story, if one does bad thing, sinawava change you to a hoodoo. They spent winter by story telling. Sinawava have magical powers in their stories. I wonder why. Because their voice at night is mysterious? In fact we heard sinawava's talking in the distance when we camp at night. It was cool to hear their voice by fire. They hunt solo, but I heard that they got together at night to talk and exchange information. Maybe they say, "Today I got a bunny." and another reply, "where?" and exchange information about hunting. ^ - ^
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