After hiking the .7 mile (1.12 km) downhill winding through the fins and hoodoos…
…we found a place a little off trail and across a dry wash to have lunch and enjoy the views looking up.
First part of the return hike was easy and took us past many awesome sights.
Then we came upon the start of “Wall Street,” a narrow crack between the fins to begin our assent.
And this our warning.
Yet I felt surrounded by an ancient serenity.
As the elders looked down upon us, the small.
And many of us walked this trail (some dressed for a casual walk along the NY Wall Street)…
…under arches…
…below more of the stone people.
I pause so often to take photos…
…I barely notice the climb as strenuous.
Maybe the ancients give me strength.
We neared the top and joined the heads of stone.
Mike said he had a stiff neck from all the looking up.
Now we looked back down.
Such a magical and captivating landscape that I want to return and immerse myself amongst these Ancients again.
The Navajo Loop trail is only 1.3 miles (2 km) long with a 550 foot (167 m) drop in elevation but it took us four hours to hike and over 1000 photos between us.
12 comments:
Wow, you took a lot of photos, but you got some great ones. Love the comparison with Wall Street. I'd much rather visit the Bryce walls.
Over 1000 photos!!! That is going to take some going through. I can though understand it as the scenery and the colour there is magnificent. Diane
Wow!! What amazing beauty! I want to be right there with you on that trail. What an amazing loop. When I visited Bryce with my parents, we didn't do any of the trails down into the canyon. I will have to do that one of these days!
It sounds like a great four hours. I can imagine the strain on Mike's neck, though. Those structures are so massive!
I should have just taken video, then we could have gotten way more pics off movie maker...
I have seen so much beauty this summer it boggles my mind...
Thanks love!
Absolutely amazing. I can depend on you to take me away!
Absolutely spectacular and the colours unmatched. What a wonderful world we live in and we get to see some of it with you as our tour guide. Thank you so much for taking me to places i have longed to see for myself and am now no longer able to visit.
Live . . . Arija
This place looks like its truly a place of myth, legend and magic. The contrasts are stunning and the formation fantastic. If you had to only discribe it without photos I would never have been able to imagine what it actually looks like.
So gorgeous...I really have to post one photo of a place here in Serbia that is reminiscent of one of your photos here....gotta remember....
Gaelyn: That sign was enough for me to turn back. what great views you got because you went on.
What stunning views! I can see why the Paiutes talked about the Legend People. It makes you understand how very insignificant people really are.
I think you were here just a week before me..
Wall St. was closed from a rock slide last time I was there 2 years ago, and we didn't try to go down that trail this time, but it seems back to normal...
I notice in your following post that you were enjoying the same stormy weather we had last week while staying up on Cedar Mountain.. I guess the storm that clobbered Flagstaff didn't make it up your way or was tempered before it got there.. I could picture your camper swirling up and away like Dorothy in Kansas. I saw pictures huge RVs just ripped to shreds... glad it missed you.
Can't seem to ever make it down to the north Rim when I'm up that way, but we will one of these days.
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