Zion: Pine Creek and the wall came down
Yesterday my wife and I just needed to do a quick hike, you know a leg stretcher. I chose Pine Creek on the North side of the the hiway just outside the tunnel.
A large section of the wall broke off and has done a pretty good job of blocking Pine Creek. This looked really recent and dust had not even washed away. Wonder if the heavy rains of July/Aug will clear it? Or will we have Pine Lake?
Win
Where it broke from:
http://www.fototime.com/8EB18AE73389F1B/standard.jpg
My wife navigating the rubble:
http://www.fototime.com/D401BAF9BBA7DF9/standard.jpg
It must have been a huge section:
http://www.fototime.com/66728935E7292CB/standard.jpg
Re: Zion: Pine Creek and the wall came down
[quote="Win"]Yesterday my wife and I just needed to do a quick hike, you know a leg stretcher. I chose Pine Creek on the North side of the the hiway just outside the tunnel.
A large section of the wall broke off and has done a pretty good job of blocking Pine Creek. This looked really recent and dust had not even washed away. Wonder if the heavy rains of July/Aug will clear it? Or will we have Pine Lake?
Win
That's a pretty section ...... If I am thinking of what you are thinking of.... It's called Clear Creek. It changes near that toliet from Pine Creek to Clear Creek and it runs along the highway toward the East Entrance. I am glad no one was in that section when it fell. How far did you hike through there? I took my younger son and we just made a short hike out of it when we did it, but I would like to hike the whole of Clear Creek one of these days.
http://www.zionnational-park.com/zio...lear-creek.htm
Or are you talking Upper Pine Creek when you enter into Spry Canyon?
http://www.zionnational-park.com/zio...pry-canyon.htm (hike)
http://www.zionnational-park.com/zion-spry-canyon.htm (canyon)
http://www.zionnational-park.com/ima...hike-7_jpg.jpg
Clear Creek
http://www.zionnational-park.com/ima...mple-n_jpg.jpg
Upper Pine Creek