{"id":234,"date":"2011-09-05T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=234"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:47:20","slug":"utah-quick-synopsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Utah &#8211; Quick Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK..my plans to post after each day here in Utah went awry.\u00a0 I was sans Internet for 2 days so I will try to piece together the last few days from memory&#8211;which doesn&#8217;t work as well as I like these days.\u00a0 First comment after 3 days in Utah and northern AZ&#8230;.wow!\u00a0 I admit\u00a0 a tendency to underestimate the US as a prime tourist destination and I know that it stems from the fact that the recorded history is insubstantial.\u00a0 However, from a sheer visual sensory perspective, the US has places that just dazzle.\u00a0 I met about 500 German tourists that would agree with me. \u00a0 900 miles in 3 days including trips to Zion NP, the Grand Canyon north rim and Bryce Canyon NP has left us exhausted.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t help that we decided to do the most strenuous hikes along the way.\u00a0\u00a0 This photo is from our 6 mile hike in Zion NP &#8211; The Narrows trail.\u00a0 The Narrows trail is a canyon hike where you spend most of the time trekking through the Virgin River&#8212;from ankle to neck deep.\u00a0 It is an incredible experience and I&#8217;ll post a few more pictures from The Narrows and other hikes as I sort through them all.<\/p>\n<p>DD<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_235\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"size-large wp-image-235\" title=\"IMG_1051\" src=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1051-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1051-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1051-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dinkel.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1051.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zion National Park - The Narrows Trail<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK..my plans to post after each day here in Utah went awry.\u00a0 I was sans Internet for 2 days so I will try to piece together the last few days from memory&#8211;which doesn&#8217;t work as well as I like these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/?p=234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,15,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-southwest","category-us","category-utah","category-zion-np"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinkel.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}