Hiking the Subway Top-Down Trail Description – The Left Fork of North Creek in Zion National Park, also known as the Subway, is one of the park’s more popular and iconic hikes, taking you along (and through) the river to a tube-like, undercut...
Since it would be our second time, we wanted to hike it in a different route – A route that requires rappelling, small down-climbs, and swimming through cold, ball-shrinking pools.
“The Indians call the canyon through which it runs “Mu-koon’-tu-weap” or Straight Canyon. Entering this, we have to wade upstream; often the water fills the entire channel, and although we travel many miles, we find no flood plain, talus, or...
But there was something about the notorious last half mile of the Angel’s Landing hike that really intimidated me – I don’t think I’ve ever hiked with more trepidation and vigilance before.
The Left Fork of North Creek in Zion National Park, also known as the Subway, is one of the park’s more popular and iconic hikes, taking you along the river to a tube-like, undercut slot canyon resembling an urban subway tunnel.
I am definitely late to the game on this posting since it’s now mid-February, but it’s still something I want to try to do each year. I put it off because I was still vigorously processing pictures from Asia and I knew some would make the cut, especially...
The Best of 2012 – My favorite 12 pictures I snapped this year. (In no particular order.) 1. Up in Grand Teton National Park in August, I decided to hike up Cascade Canyon “for a bit,” and ended up hiking nearly 10 miles round-trip. Luckily I got...