She pauses briefly and then says, none of us have been down there for a while, so, we’re not really sure, you should just carry lots of water. Just to be sure, because I tend to think that way when it comes to water, I close with ‘so I really don’t need to carry much water down there at all, because i’ll be camping at Yellow Creek tonight, which should have reliable water, right?’, to which she says ‘no, you should carry lots down there’, to which I reply ‘in case I get thirsty on the way there, or in case there’s no water at Yellow Creek when I get there?’, to which she says ‘yes’. I select my 2nd night’s campsite and we get the paperwork thing done and permit issued. ‘Great!’ I reply, ‘that’s where I’ll camp tonight then’. I asked her if any of the water sources in the park were likely to be reliable for the next few days, to which she offered the helpful response that I may or may not find water anywhere ‘down there’, but that Yellow Creek should be okay. The third, water, was just: ‘you should carry lots of water’. I hang my food from a tree in camp, which is sufficient and was the reason for my decline. The second, the offer of the bear canister, I simply said ‘no’, to which I was expecting a range of questions about bear preparedness, but got none. In response to the first of these, camp site selection, I asked if she had any recommendations to which she said, ‘they’re all pretty much the same’. Usually it’s a helpful dialog where I too get to size them up for helpful info like what water sources are likely to be reliable, which camping locations are optimal for proximity to water, good views or a warm night’s sleep. Today I got three questions: where am I camping, do I need them to give me a bear canister and how much water will I be carrying? I always feel like they’re sizing me up for my suitability to venture into the backcountry on my own, because to get a backcountry permit you usually have to tell them where you plan to camp and answer other questions they deem pertinent. I always enjoy talking to the park ranger, it’s either incredibly helpful or comically odd. I’d never been here before, so the excitement factor was high.įirst stop inside the park was the Visitor’s Center to visit the ranger’s desk and purchase a $5 backcountry permit. I jumped on the next shuttle into Bryce Canyon National Park. I drove down from Salt Lake City on Friday morning and arrived at the town of Bryce about 1 p.m.
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