Day two in Bryce Canyon

Monday, 8/27

After making sure that our solar panel was in the full sun (we have been having mystifying battery difficulties lately and needed all the solar power we can get), we left for our walk around the Peek-a-Boo trail.  It sounds cutesy and benign, but it was neither.  Again, a series of switchbacks down and then up with jaw-dropping scenery and quite the cardio workout.  It was listed as a 3-4 hour hike, and we did it in 2 hours and 20 mins (we are Rock Stars!!!) even though we took many time-outs along the way for gawking and photographing (and catching our collective breath). 

Amazing vista through a natural archway

See the little window, way up high behind Nils?

The Wall of Windows

This reminds me of an army of Egyptian statues...the so-called Hoodoos

The paths were just plowed into the mountain side and of clay-sand…...I figured out that is what added to the ancient feel of the whole thing.   Everywhere you look are trees which have twisted into spiral patterns...no one is really sure why.   I took many pictures of them (yes,I'm obsessed.  It's a vortex thing), but this is the only one that really turned out:

A twisty tree

We came home to the RV and recovered from our exertions.  Nils also had to do some diagnosing of our current battery problems which have been perplexing and vexing and, well, a pain.  Turns out our neighbor, Tom,  a few sites over has a bunch of solar panels on his RV and is an expert on power issues.  He spent hours this afternoon helping Nils to fix our wiring issues, (including getting UNDER the RV to look at the wiring)....we are so grateful, and will be stopping in Flagstaff, AZ to get an additional solar panel and newer, better batteries, etc.   Then maybe we will have finally solved our power issues.   Tom and his wife Bonnie are going to join us on our hike tomorrow morning.

Time for bed---more tomorrow!