Friday, 8th of June 2012 at 06:07:24 AMI would be only 1 day in Las Vegas but return later for another two days before my flight home. After the eventfull days in the Y.S.N.P. tour I needed some relax. In the morning I bought the obligatory Ice-chest for the car (Walmart 15.99) USD and bought the beveranges for the trip. Then I went back to the Hotel and its nice Pool. Its always relaxing drinking some beers (3) in the sun. Only two fotos shot today. The evening I prepared the backpack and the travel plan for the tour I would start the next day. It should bring me again back to South Utah. (I must admit I did also some shopping in the evening).
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Too tired to write much just to log my travel the major day events: 4.2o Check out in Las Vegas and 2h30 drive to Zion N.P. In Zion N.P. done two major hikes: Finally the Narrows Hike along the Vrigin River (tried it already last year but water too high) and after returning from Narrows Hike at 2 pm redone the Angel’s Landing hike, which I had done the first time in 2009 and liked very much. After retourning from the mountain, drive to Escalante, UT where my next basecamp would be for 4 nights. Arrived very tired at the Hotel at 10.30 pm.
Related Posts:Today I wanted to see the Golden Cathedral in the Neon Canyon of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. A famous spot for fotografers and Canyon lovers. The trailhead of this hike is on the Egypt branch road at mile 10 of the Hole in the Rock gravel road. On that road 16 further miles had to be driven to reach the trailhead. Whereas the Hole in the Road access road is quite good to drive, the Egypt road has many rocks and sand. Some points you must be very carefull not to damage the car. I also once touched rock with my Jeep despite the High clearance. All this means the drive time to the trailhead is long. Therefore I had to start early at 5.20 am and arrived at 7 am at the trailhead. The hike is very strenous. Althoug it’s only 13km (9 mile) roundtrip, you must first climb donwn into the canyon, cross the Escalante river and there are no marked trails, so you need good route finding skills or GPS. I had a GPS and the recorded track of this hike (Thanks Matthias R.) otherwise I would have been lost. I arrived 9.20 am at the Golden cathedral and stayed 2h there. 
Related Posts:The plan today was to visit the Zebra Slot Canyon 8 miles south on the Hole in the rock road. I had tried this already in 2011 but due to high waterpools the Slot canyon was not accessible last year. I hoped to be more lucky this time. I found the entrance of the Slot Canyon full blown with Sand thus it was no problem to enter and go though the Slot Canyon. Especially the back part is knowwn for its amazing patterns and the Moqui marbles in the walls. 
Related Posts:The highlight today was meeting Laurent Matres, whose book series Photographing the Southwest is my favourite Photo Guide book. We met at my hotel for coffee and had a 1h chat about my trip and previous trips and also about his current projects and activities. 
I had originally planed to visit the Coyote Gulch but felt tired and thus decided to visit another Nationalpark which was completly new to me, the Capitol Reef National Park near Torrey – around 70 miles east of Escalante. Driving on scenic byway 12 in eastern direction was furthermore very attractive and I knew this route only up to Boulder, UT. 
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