south fork of taylor creek.

This Sunday's hike was in the Kolob Canyon part of Zion National Park. It was about 2ish miles long and not maintained by the park. Was told that this trail is for the people who go mountain climbing. The trail wasn't all that wide and basically, if you ever wanted to take a machete and just thrash through you would have a blast here. The plants and trees were overgrown. It's in between two fingers of the Kolobs and it was a nice morning.

This was taken right at the starting point, sun wasn't even fully up and thankfully... neither were the bugs.

There were a lot or trees and just walls and walls of mountain. Some pretty cool formations here and there.

I'm pretty sure there was even a face or two in one of the walls... Can you see it? 

Trees provided some nice shade, the sand was pink and tired you out a lot faster than you would expect. Getting up some of the hills with just how deep some of the sand was, I was kicking myself I did "legs day" the day before...

It was a nice hike to get out and go but I'm pretty sure I got spoiled by all the creeks and whatnot. Oh well, another hike down and I believe there's about 3 more to go inside the Kolob portion of Zion. 

double arch alcove. (taylor creek)

This is a short (kinda bad) 360° view of the Double Arch Alcove at the end of the Taylor Creek hike.

timber creek overlook.

Did this quick little not even a mile long hike because the trail I wanted to do was already packed (got off to a late start). I guess it was nice to see a closer view of what I can see looking out the backyard and just to kill about an hour.

taylor creek.

Taylor Creek is inside the Kolob Canyon part of Zion National Park. A fairly easy almost 5 mile hike roundtrip, the worst part about it was at the very end when you need to climb these stairs made for giants. It was a nice hike, could hear the birds chirping, see lizards doing their pushups, weren't many bugs just yet.

I had to cross the creek a few times. Beautiful scenery, cool perfect about ankle deep creek water and there weren't many people there. (Made the mistake of going on Memorial Day Weekend)

At the end of the trail was the Double Arch Alcove. Wow, that thing was amazing. And it echoes. If you ever visit, make sure to sit on a log or a rock... because the sand gets everywhere.  

This was the view from inside the alcove. A couple groups, nothing too bad. 

One thing I wish I did was take a panoramic of the place. Maybe take a video or two... But since it's pretty close to where I am, I think I'll have to go back and do that.