Three weeks spent hiking through some of the best national parks in south western USA is a nice way to spend your time and discover things that can't be seen from the road. With hiking the more you put in the more you get out. Slow touring at it's very best.
A suggestion from our friends to buy an annual pass for the parks worked very well, good shoes and hiking poles made it a lot more comfortable and made the climbs and descents easier. Coming from sea level it took a few days for us to adjust but the last few hikes at over 10,000ft. weren't a problem.
I want to mention the software we used for all of the hikes, it is an Android app. called Locus, I am not connected with them in any way but want to spread the word. I have upgraded to their pro version, the $9 cost is money well spent. Buying the vector maps from them for the areas we hiked for about 25c. per state and downloading the GPX files for each trail made it easy to see where we were. Many of the trails are well marked but on some of them signs had been vandalised or turned in the wrong direction by that sub species that exists in every country. www.modernhiker.com/ is a good source of GPX files.
Photos were taken using an iPhone 5 and a Sony a6000 with the kit lenses. My shoes are Oboz Firebrand 2 well worth the money.
Wallace Lake loop, Prescott AZ.
Brins Mesa Soldiers Pass trail Sedona AZ.
Brins Mesa trail Sedona AZ.
Devils Bridge trail Sedona AZ.
Devils Bridge Sedona AZ.
Sedona
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Boynton Canyon trail Sedona AZ.
Boynton Canyon trail.
Petrified Forest N.P. AZ.
Blue Mesa AZ.
Canyon de Chelley AZ.
Cohab Canyon trail Capitol Reef N.P. UT.
Cohab Canyon trail.
Bryce Canyon Navajo trail switchbacks UT.
Bryce Canyon Navajo Loop trail.
Steep and very muddy.
Sticky stuff.
Great Basin N.P. NV. Bristlecone trail.
Great Basin N.P. Terese Lake.
Sabrina Basin trail. CA.
Sabrina Basin trail, I still can't believe that view.
Convict Lake walk, very easy. CA.
Convict Lake.
Convict Lake.
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