Day 12: Zion National Park - The Narrows!

We wanted to have enough time to do the full trip and back to The Narrows, so we woke up early and for once didn't have to pack of our tents or anything. Somehow, we managed to take quite some time to get everything ready. The gear we had rented the night before, but we had to prepared the food and waterproof bags and whatnot. We finally got on the bus around 10 (no one had a cell phone and therefore we had no way of telling what time it was). After an initial hike of about 20 minutes along a paved road, we started trekking through the water, headed towards the spring which marks the end of the hike.

Nos levantamos pronto para poder hacer el camino The Narrows, se supone que se tarda unas ocho horas en hacerlo entero. Esta vez no teníamos que deshacer las tiendas, así que tuvimos tiempo para preparar la comida para la excursión. La primera parte del trayecto son unos 20 minutos de camino normal hasta que llegas al río. A partir de ahí, con la ayuda de un palo que nos dieron también en la tienda de alquiler, vas por el río, a veces, te cubre hasta el tobillo y otras hasta la cintura. 

Everything about the trip was awesome. The sights, trudging through the water, stopping for lunch. All a great time. We each fell at some point throughout the hike, myself being the first. John got in way too deep at some point, having to battle the current to come back. 












Todo el camino fue espectacular: las vistas, el andar por el agua, el parar para comer, etc. Los tres nos caímos en algún momento, Martín el primero...jeje... Una de las veces John, sin querer, se fue metiendo a una zona bastante profunda y tuvo que pelear a contracorriente, nada grave! 

The most interesting experience was had by Idoia. After we had made it to the spring, Idoia in her curiosity walked a bit further upstream to see what else was there. She waded to a sandbank in the middle of the river, and all of a sudden she looked startled. She called for help, at first not too seriously (at least that was my impression) but then she started to panic a bit. She was stuck in quicksand! I couldn't believe it, hearing about it from cartoon since you were little and finally seeing it! As I went towards here, I could actually see her slowly sinking. It was all pretty exciting I must say, although Idoia might not agree. I was able to pull her out after not too much trouble, so no one was (physically) harmed.

Ya al final del camino, decidí ir un poco más allá y me acabé metiendo en unas arenas movedizas, qué sensación más horrible! Por suerte, aunque le costó reaccionar, mi querido marido vino en mi ayuda. Parece que le apasionó el momento en que me iba hundiendo poco a poco. Estaba maravillado con la idea de ver a alguien hundiéndose en la arena como había visto en los dibujos cuando era pequeño...en fin... yo no lo encontré tan excitante la verdad. 

We decided to head back to the shuttle after a about 10 minutes or so at the spring. It took us 4 hours to get there, and we were supposed to return our equipment by 6 PM so we didn't have too much time to spare (it was about 2 at this point). We made it back much quicker, pretty exhausted, in just under 3 hours.

Después de este momento "apasionante" para algunos, nos fuimos para poder devolver las cosas antes de las 18 que cerraban la tienda, así que la vuelta la hicimos más rápido y en tres horas ya llegamos al inicio. 

                                     

After returning our stuff, we each had a well-needed shower and grabbed dinner at a nearby pub. The Sunday night football game was on (I had yet to watch a game since the season started), although it was rained out for most of the time we were there. It was great to have some hot food after a long day, and we had a good time at the pub, mostly due to our seemingly high busboy.

Tras devolver las cosas y darnos una ducha, fuimos a cenar a un pub donde ponían el partido del domingo de fútbol americano, nos reíamos un rato con un camarero bastante empanado del bar y a dormir!