{"id":1238,"date":"2009-06-23T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T23:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/impressions\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2009-06-23T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T23:11:28","slug":"a-trip-through-pastel-canyon-to-east-rim-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softblog.com\/impressions\/2009\/06\/23\/a-trip-through-pastel-canyon-to-east-rim-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip through Pastel canyon to East Rim Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian led us, a bunch of locals, again to some interesting hike. It was the beginning of June, wonderful weather! By wonderful I mean – not hot, light cloudy skies, best for hiking. One could never wish for more in this desert…<\/p>\n

We started in the upper part of our park and went up the Pastel canyon:<\/p>\n

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Crows saw us off:<\/p>\n

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And desert flowers met us on the way:<\/p>\n

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The canyon got thinner and narrower:<\/p>\n

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We needed to use ropes twice:<\/p>\n

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We had to sneak through thick bushes and climb slippery sandy slopes:<\/p>\n

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But we reached the top where the canyon joins East Rim Trail:<\/p>\n

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Some of the last hard climb on the top:<\/p>\n

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And there we had lunch. From that point there was no climbing any more, mostly descending, very lightly, very nicely, at first on a nice forest path:<\/p>\n

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With abundance of flowers here and there:<\/p>\n

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Then the forest opened up and disappeared in the back… but the flowers were still there:<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t it look like a path to Eden?<\/p>\n

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From there we could see our end point in the distance in the bottom of this canyon. But to reach that point – oh, it was a rather long walk – around and around the edges of canyons of which there is no lack in this country:<\/p>\n

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Thanks God there were different interesting flowers on the way:<\/p>\n

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Adrian says we walked totally 5 miles, but to me it seems we walked very long miles. Here is the finish line, with a cold bottle of beer (thanks to one of our fellow hikers):<\/p>\n

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…………the end……….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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