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    <tr><td class="DateDiv">September 8, 2007</td></tr>
    <tr><td class="TitleDiv">Finding some hoodoos</td></tr>
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<p>Nothing like a long drive in the night, haunted by the thought that if you don't make it to Provo by 2 am there won't be anybody to give you the hotel room key... Especially after you realize that Utah is not in the Pacific, but Mountain time zone, so you lose one hour just by crossing the state border. But we made it a little bit after 1 am and we even got a few hours of sleep. </p>

<p>We still had a few hours of boring drive to Bryce Canyon. Boring with one exception: a few miles before Bryce, the Red Canyon offers a short and amazing preview. We drove all the way to Rainbow Point, which is the end of the park. We hiked (or better said walked) the Bristlecone Loop Trail, which took us close to Yovimpa Point. For the rest of the day we did mostly what regular tourists do: get in the car, drive to the next view point, get out of the car, look, take pictures, then repeat. Below there is at least one picture from every viewpoint we stopped at, so I will not make a list here. Suffice to say that we liked Bryce point the most.</p>

<p>After seeing almost all the viewpoints, we decided it was the time to hike down in the canyon. We left the car at the Sunset point and took the shuttle to the Sunrise point. While hiking to the Queens Garden, we realized how impressively big those hoodoos really are. It is a feeling you get only if you get close to one. We continued on the Navajo trail and climbed out of the canyon at Sunset point along the Wall Street. After admiring the sunset, we drove all the way to Cedar City to our next hotel.</p>

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This is part of our trip to several canyons:
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<LI>Bryce Canyon</LI>
<LI><a href = "0909.html">Zion Canyon</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0910.html">Grand Canyon - South Rim</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0911.html">Grand Canyon - North Rim</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0912.html">Lake Powell</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0913.html">Needles District in Canyonlands</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0914.html">Arches</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0915.html">Bridges and Capitol Reef</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "0916.html">Salt Lake City</a></LI>
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