Profilers
Sometimes you don’t stop to think that while the daytime temperatures in the central Arizona Valleys are reaching into the high nineties that there are other places just a few hundred miles away where the snow is continuing to fall.
Our hardy group of campers set off in shorts and tee shirts for Bryce Canyon Utah. Some arrived the day before the planned camp and were greeted with snow flurries and an overnight temperature in the low twenties! The attire changed rapidly.
Be advised that the weather warmed up a bit every
day and afternoons were in the pleasant seventies.
Our destination campground was at Ruby’s Inn, just outside the main gate to the National Park. Not only did this full hookup park provide the usual amenities, but the main Inn housed a very nice buffet.
With the snow of the previous week, there was
enough moisture in the area to allow us to have a campfire each
night. As frequently happens, there
was sufficient food left over
from the first pot-luck to enjoy instant replays the next evening.
Daytime hours everyone toured the colorful canyons of Bryce and returned with plenty of pictures to remember the trip by.
Close to the campground is an impressive wildlife museum with lots of displays of animals found in the general area of the canyon.
A highlight of the trip was an evening wagon ride
through an elk and buffalo farm.
What a nice opportunity to see some
of these huge animals up close and personal.
We noticed that some of the non-Hi-Lo campers failed to "read all the words" and were seen in the outdoor bathrooms running water on their frozen water hoses trying to thaw them out.