Zion National Park! The coolest park/natural landscape I saw

While in Vegas we stopped by this store
because it said "Organic Produce" on it
or something like that. Anyways, it's totally
a front for a marijuana store. Also it's got a bar
in the back.

Day 1: Watchman trail hike
Arrived to Zion midday, the town, Springdale, that leads into the park is just so cute and quaint and cool! Everything is just so nifty. 
Did the Watchman trail hike, very easy, but very beautiful.

Day 2: Woke up to ice covering the tent/car/table/everything.
Didn't do much this day but wait for the sun to come out from hiding behind Watchman peak. Bought 2 things of firewood and had ourselves a nice campfire from 8am - 12pm.
Cooked oatmeal on the fire, man legit fire cooking is so inefficient.

View from Watchman Trail

Katniss wannabe

Went down to the visitors center to read more about Zion and ended up fighting with blow up punching gloves and shields that I bought from the dollar store in the vistor center parking lot. Also shot our crossbows and slingshots.

We killed time until about 8pm by exploring the very nifty town of Springdale until the person we were couchsurfing with, Kirstan, came home. We spent this night and the next at her house.
Man, she's a seriously awesome person.
We are so incredibly thankful for her hospitality, warm bed and showers. (When we reached her, neither of us had showered for about 5 days).
She has a goal of visiting all of the national parks in America. Cause, you know, there's only like over 400 of them.

Just cause we're living out of a car, doesn't
mean we won't eat healthy :D

Anyways she was definitely a superb addition to our roadtripping adventures and I loved listening to her crazy stories about her various travels (like when EVERYTHING was stolen from her car on her last day in New Zealand. Passport, camera, everything.)

I highly recommend couch surfing, it's a great way to meet some really amazing people.
Or rapists disguising themselves as amazing people...
oh well, it's a risk you should take.
Just bring a leatherman :P

If I ever had the opportunity to do so, I will definitely lend out any extra rooms/couches to some couch surfers.

Kirstan recommended  Observation Point and Hidden Valley for tomorrow, so that's what we did.

View from Observation Point

En route to Observation Point

Part of the trail to Hidden Valley

Literally had to use this 'snow jug' to rock climb over
a wall

Day 3:
Started the morning with Observation Point hike, which was definitely very cool. The mesas and plateaus of Zion are awesome. We hiked up about 2, 200 feet or so and then completely leveled out to flat ground and walked to Observation Point. On top of the plateau is a whole 'nother world, completely different ecosystem and a trippy combo of sand and snow.

The path to Hidden Valley has some really
steep cliffs, so they provide you with a chain
to hold on it. VERY handy. Probably would
be dead right now if that chain wasn't there

After Observation Point we hiked to Hidden Canyon which was the most fun hike I've been on during this entire trip. A close tie with Dragonback Ridge in Malaysia in terms of most fun hike ever.
Some very serious scrambling is required to continue on with the trail (definitely for the athletically inclined because there are some very sketchy and slippery rocks that you have to propel yourself over).

Essentially completely vertical drop.

But honestly it just makes it more fun, so if you're not physically decrepit, at least try it.