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Virgin Morning

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If you’ve noticed your spirits lagging behind you lately, or perhaps they’ve simply gone AWOL, you’re due for a trip to Zion and the Virgin river. It doesn’t matter what time of year you decide to go, the important thing is that you do. Maybe you’ve been cooped up in a tiny little place that is filled with nothing but work, or you’ve been restricted to going from one boring but ugly place to another and haven’t lifted your head up lately because it’s just too depressing, if so don’t despair there is help nearby. Just jump in the car and go to Zion. Hitchhike if you have to. Call your crazy Uncle Skid and say “You up for a road trip?” He will be. But go. It’s for your own good.

This image was taken a little later in the morning, like nearly 11:00. The canyon here is so deep that it takes that long for the sun to climb high enough to light up the river. This is perfect if you OD’d on pizza the night before and could not get your big butt out of bed for anything short of maybe more pizza. The magic of Zion takes into account all the reasons you might have for not maintaining a proper schedule as it says “Look, it’s ok if you slept in. It’s ok that you feel like the ass-end of an ape. We’ve saved something really special just for you.Be happy.” and here it is.
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As an  extra bonus Zion will throw in the quiet murmuring of the river as it glides between its banks, the cool feeling of the boulders as you sit and listen to the songs of the birds, and the rich deep colors of the sun on the water. How you going to say no to that. Come on, you know you want to. See you there.

 

 

3 O’Clock

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Time passes differently in the desert. It conforms somewhat to our notion of how time should behave. It gets light in the morning and dark at night, and high noon is roughly what shows on the face of your Rolex when both hands point straight up, but it doesn’t feel the same. And as you know if you’ve ever spent time alone somewhere like this desert at Coral Pink Sands Dunes State Park, time is as much a feeling as it is the passage of seconds and minutes.

You can come here with your time if you want. The dunes don’t care. Have your schedules on your smart phone set to tell you how long you can stay, how long before you have  to go if you want to make it to Zion before the afternoon rush for rooms begins. But be careful when you step out onto the sands here. Watch out for the fact that the hands on your watch may move but the passage of time here on the dunes doesn’t always agree. Finding a place to sit where you can watch the winds sculpt the dunes into new shapes, erasing footprints, sharpening the edges of the dune tops until they look as is they could shear the wind in half, or slice little eddies off the breezes to form new ripples down the face of the sand. That’s when you notice that the 15 minutes you thought you were spending has actually been an hour and a half. The desert is showing you how time works here. It’s not your watch that’s at fault. It’ll work just fine when you get back to people places and that time takes over again.

Forget also about making it the 45 miles from here to Zion in time. You’ve been caught by desert time. Sitting there watching the sand change color from a yellowish-tan to a rich, deep coral as the sun moves across the shifting dunes, listening to the low moan of the winds as they scrub across the dune tops, feeling as much as hearing the low humming that comes from the movement of untold billions of sand crystals rubbing together, as the wind slowly but surely pushes the dunes along, moving these massive collections of sand some fifty feet a year. Sitting there you’ve been moved with them, not very far, a short journey actually, but as a new part of the desert you’ve been added to the structure and affected by it, unaware that your presence has been noted and taken into account. You’re on desert time now.

It’s time to put your smart phone away, pull your sleeves down over that watch and tune into desert time. Make other arrangements in your mind as schedules don’t work well here in the desert. But it’ll work just fine if you let it happen and don’t fight it. It will still get light in the morning and dark again the evening, noon will come and go just like always, it’ll just feel differently is all. Once you understand how that works you’ll find its a pretty good system. If you need to know things like hours and so on, the desert will tell you. As you can see by the image above it’s three o’clock. Now that you know that, does it make a difference?

The Narrows

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There are places you go to that are so beautiful that they etch themselves onto your brain so deeply that you can never forget them. The Narrows of the Virgin River in Zion National Park is one of those places. Hiking up the bank of the river you are treated at every turn to one stunning image after another.

The day was quiet, the river barely making any sound except for a soft murmuring as it ran over the rocky shoals, a Pinyon Jay was calling far up the river, the sound echoing back and forth along the cliff face, and you swore you could almost hear the sunlight hitting the stone above as it found its way into the canyon. Bright almost iridescent colors next to softly muted ones created a contrast that was dramatic yet right, with all the pieces fitting together exactly as they should. I could go on and on about how blue the sky was or how absolutely gorgeous the cliff face glowed in the sunlight but what I really remember was the sense of peace and serenity I felt standing there. At the risk of sounding way too New Age and Cosmic, which if you were to ask any of my friends I am definitely not, there was a sense of becoming one with nature that was unmistakable. This is how you’re supposed to feel when you experience nature on this level and this is what I miss when I’m homebound. If you’re not doing anything you should go there.