Saturday we did something out of the ordinary; we went for a hike in Zion National Park. The Park is close to home, but it's also one of the busiest national parks so we usually avoid it. We were pleasantly surprised not once, but twice during the hike; first we didn't see any other hikers and secondly we saw Big Horn Sheep!
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| Starting out for Many Pools . . . there are no signs or an actual trail |
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| Fall colors in Zion National Park |
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| Mountain Maple leaves covered this section of the trail |
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| We are hoping to see some Big Horn Sheep today |
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| There they are! Can you see where Kent is pointing? |
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| Believe it or not, this is our first Big Horn Sheep sighting in Zion |
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| They stopped to munch on the bushes |
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| One of the many potholes etched into the sandstone that make up Many Pools |
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| We continued up along the slickrock |
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| It was a beautiful day for a hike |
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| Colorful Paintbrush growing in the sandstone |
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| Kent is watching for Big Horn Sheep, can you see him? |
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| I stayed down in the ravine and had fun watching these two |
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| We ended up seeing three different groups of Big Horn Sheep |
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| Zion is an amazing place |
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| Kent spotted this Ram . . . wow! |
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| What an impressive Ram! |
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| Seeing him made this hike more memorable |
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| Tee-shirt weather in November . . . gotta love it! |
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| I'd love to return in the Spring to see the water cascading through the Pools |
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| We're on our way up to check out this hoodoo |
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| It was fun hiking around the hoodoos, they are bigger than they appear from the canyon below |
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| No matter where you look, you'll see many different colorful rock formations |
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| One of the many unique rocks we came across |
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| Kent . . . doing his best Kokopelli pose |
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| Looking south we could see the highway |
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| The afternoon sun made this tree really stand out |
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| This tunnel means our hike is coming to an end |
