So you still get a lot of tour buss thru in the spring,summer and fall? I am looking at looking for work in the summer of 2012. I still am down here in...
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amccullen@...
amccullen...
Feb 10, 2011 5:03 pm
Hello all! I'm planning a trip to Zion with a friend for the middle of March. We are both experienced backpackers and are looking for a 4-day, 3-night hike in...
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TomJones
ratagonia
Feb 10, 2011 5:10 pm
There is not much available, but I did notice it is on the 1941 map/brochure. see: http://canyoneeringusa.com/rave/0812zion/index.htm and is on a 1948 map I...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 10, 2011 5:16 pm
The National Parks service has selected Maryland sculptor David Purcell as the new artist-in-residence at Utah's Zion National Park. more ...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 10, 2011 5:20 pm
I love that site!...
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TomJones
ratagonia
Feb 10, 2011 5:25 pm
Did you say September?? March is not a very good time to come to Zion, especially to go backpacking. Zion is not much of a Backpacking park, and even in the...
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Clay Palmer
cpatflgaz
Feb 10, 2011 8:58 pm
A woman fell to her death at the Grand Canyon early Wednesday evening. According to information from the National Park Service, the woman's husband had exited...
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Joe Braun
bodhijoe
Feb 10, 2011 9:19 pm
Tom - Do you have the 1926 Union Pacific Railroad hardbound brochure for Zion? I got a copy off eBay a few years back and it has the exact same map (or...
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jeff
kpig751
Feb 10, 2011 11:37 pm
You could park at the east entrance and then hike west on rt 9 to the drainage/passage between Checkerboard/Crazy Quilt. Hike thru that passage until you...
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TomJones
ratagonia
Feb 11, 2011 6:44 pm
I probably have that one - busy day to today getting out of town for two weeks! I have been trying to find when it went out of fashion. That trails brochure...
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Cliff
kol84b
Feb 12, 2011 2:09 am
I think it would have been a few years later than that. I don't remember the year I hiked it, but I'm sure it would have been 1969 or later because my friend...
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Cliff
kol84b
Feb 12, 2011 3:03 am
Google Streetview has come to Zion. Check it out... Cliff...
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Clay Palmer
cpatflgaz
Feb 12, 2011 4:10 am
I am trying to find out what the word Kaiparowits means? I am guessing it is a indian word? Is the other name for the same plateau, the Straight Cliffs, them...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 12, 2011 6:27 am
There is no privacy left. [:D]...
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Joe Braun
bodhijoe
Feb 12, 2011 2:38 pm
Cliff - I think you are correct. Do you happen to have any surviving photos? I asked my father last night if he remembered anything else about Lady Mountain....
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Clay Palmer
cpatflgaz
Feb 12, 2011 4:16 pm
Eventually it will become video and not just stills, then when you tell someone you are hiking up the narrows there will be someone watching you from a...
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Joe Braun
bodhijoe
Feb 12, 2011 6:32 pm
I had seen Google Streetview for Springdale about a year ago. Yes, it's creepy, but kinda cool. I don't recall Route 9 through the park being available before....
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Clay Palmer
cpatflgaz
Feb 12, 2011 7:35 pm
It must take a lot of images compiled together to make street views. I have seen them here in my neighborhood and starting at the cross streets by our house,...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 12, 2011 8:22 pm
"The Kaiparowits was the name for a point near the north end of the plateau so we decided to call the whole mountain by that name," wrote A....
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 12, 2011 8:31 pm
http://www.uintahbasintah.org/papers/utahplacesnames.pdf Check this out. Try to Google things like: Kaiparowits "Big Mountain’s Little Brother." or other...
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Clay Palmer
cpatflgaz
Feb 13, 2011 12:35 am
Thank you very much Tanya for the information. I like the name Big Mountains Little Brother. The indians names are so great! The Kaiparowits Plateau is my...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 13, 2011 5:45 am
What do you think? Should I leave the trail description with directions to it? Is it best to delete the trailhead description and gps coordinates as I did or...
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hwstockman
Feb 13, 2011 1:44 pm
Then is there any legal way to get to Kinesava from that side?...
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Joe Braun
bodhijoe
Feb 13, 2011 2:35 pm
Boy Tanya -- Situations like this make me very sad. Wonderful locations around Zion, from Camp Creek to Beartrap Canyon, Battle Creek/Oak Creek/Eye of the...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 13, 2011 3:41 pm
Awesome thoughts on the subject Joe. This bugged me all last night. So few go and attempt this hike and a few control freaks have to stop them. Does it...
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jeff
kpig751
Feb 13, 2011 4:33 pm
The homeowners assoc. demands removal of the trail description. Since most of the trail is within the park, that demand is surely dismissable. As to the...
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Clay Palmer
cpatflgaz
Feb 13, 2011 4:57 pm
So is it that the new land owner do not want hikers coming thru their property to access the trails and routes? I remember down in Sabino Canyon in the...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 13, 2011 5:46 pm
A hiker can still do this one I assume by parking outside of Kinesava Ranch and walk a bit farther. It's not undo-able, its just longer and this one already...
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tanya
thunderbirdmail
Feb 13, 2011 5:49 pm
Yes, homeowners and home owners ass. Why do people build on the edge of a National Park then stop people from accessing that park? [#-o] ... property to...
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southerner15@...
jacqueline.c...
Feb 13, 2011 6:41 pm
Clay, my understanding is that these pics are not updated daily. Thus, when they came through and say someone was in their front yard, it will remain that way...
