For our “rest day” today, we all rented canyoneering shoes (and awful neoprene socks!) and headed out to hike the Narrows up the Virgin river. I was a little worried about bringing my camera on such a wet hike, but I’m glad that I did. (and I managed to not drop it in the water!)
![Looking down at the river on the walk out to the start of the trail](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-2.jpg)
![Columbine flowers. We have these at high elevations in Washington as well!](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-1.jpg)
![Sand, water, and rock](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-3.jpg)
![Most of the hike was walking through knee high water. Totally worth it.](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-2-2.jpg)
![Small waterfall](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-1-2.jpg)
![Zion Adventure Company](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-4-2.jpg)
![Twisted trees](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-3-2.jpg)
![Detail of rock wall](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-4.jpg)
![Beautiful clear water](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-5.jpg)
![Interesting stripes on the rock](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-5-2.jpg)
![Bet the water really rips through here during floods...](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-6.jpg)
![The area between the rocks was apparently about 4' deep. I went around.](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-6-2.jpg)
![Waves in the canyon wall](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-18.jpg)
![Filtered sunlight](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-17.jpg)
![Interesting how much power water has to shape a landscape to its liking.](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-16.jpg)
![Lots of boulders](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-15.jpg)
![Tiger stripes!](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-14-2.jpg)
![Apparently the water can swirl rocks around in the same place and form these little indentations in the stone](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-14.jpg)
![The lighting got amazing as the sun came out overhead](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-13-2.jpg)
![Driftwood from some unlucky tres](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-13.jpg)
![I'd hate to be down there when one of those giant boulders fell...](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-12-2.jpg)
![Waterfall with hikers](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-12.jpg)
![Up through the canyon. This is why it's called The Narrows.](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-11-2.jpg)
![Different rock layers](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-11.jpg)
![Just beautiful](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-10-2.jpg)
![I'd like to come back and just shoot a "roll" of black and white.](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-10.jpg)
![We're definitely coming back here!](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-9-2.jpg)
![Almost reminds me of the British virgin islands. Ironic that this is the virgin river.](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-9.jpg)
![Light through the canyon](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-8-2.jpg)
![Giant boulders](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-7-2.jpg)
![I needed a tripod for this one](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-8.jpg)
![Light playing on the rocks](http://advinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bryceday5-7.jpg)
This hike was stellar! (Had to get my thesaurus out to find replacement words for “amazing” because I keep needing to use it!) Seriously, I think this was my favorite part of the whole trip. The biking was fun, but you don’t get a sense of the scale of this place without being right deep down inside of it. Jason kept telling me about all the other hikes in this area that he’d heard about and really really wanted to come back and do. (Angel’s landing looks super intense…) Zion is now on our list of places we HAVE to come back and visit.