Some of those conga lines were longer than the lines at theme parks. Thanks for showing me why I shouldn't make plans to head to Zion until I've seen everything else.
You’re very welcome Karl. The scary part of this video is the scenes you see that I shot on this hike were with the least amount of people in them the entire way. Literally hordes of humans everywhere. Once we all get accustomed to the remote wilderness it’s very tough to deal with crowds anymore…
I hate how crowded but always so gorgeous. Last time I went I lucked out and got a cold miserable rainy day in late winter and it was wonderful. As always, thanks for sharing 😊
Beautiful Zion! It's hard to be around so many people. We went in late April one year and it wasn't too bad. Just the nature of a popular National Park. Looks like you're having a great road trip!😁
"Wayyy too many people!" Yeah, that's a crazy number of people and so crowded. But that's also a beautiful place and the facilities are kind of on a Disneyland scale. The bathrooms, buses, even the trails are set up to deliver the views of a park setting. I've only been to two National Parks, Yellowstone and Crater Lake, and Zion appears even more urbanized than Yellowstone. But i guess it's better to concentrate most visitors into specific spaces than have them destroying pristine areas that disrupt the natural ecosystem, at least the wildlife are somewhat separated and protected.
It’s exactly like Disneyland only prettier. People on top of people. Believe it or not the way I filmed this whole video is with the least amount of people in the clips as possible but it was impossible. The amount of people you saw at the end was how it was the entire trail I just had to be patient and wait for mini windows of not very many people. I wanted to hike the Narrows the next day but absolutely couldn’t imagine going back in that park, dealing with the lines for the bus then being wall to wall in the river on that trail with other humans. Every park drove me right out of there… couldn’t handle it
@@MarmaladeOutdoors I guess that's the purpose of National Parks, give most people an experience that's a verisimilitude of the original wilderness without the original difficulties of actual travel or daily existence. Quite fairly, it's the opposite of backpacking an area, which is also quite different than the daily indigenous experience of the area (recognizing that the indigenous experience has mostly disappeared, with all the associated positives and negatives). I suppose that's the best experience one could expect in such a small space, it's only ~250 square miles. The park cannot possibly support hundreds of visitors a day without a bunch of compromise. Even the limited backcountry trails where most visitors would not tread are just a handful of miles from the surrounding properties. But it is a beautiful and fascinating landscape.
Beautiful vid ! Zion / Bryce in the winter is spectacular as well. 😍☮️
Some of those conga lines were longer than the lines at theme parks. Thanks for showing me why I shouldn't make plans to head to Zion until I've seen everything else.
You’re very welcome Karl. The scary part of this video is the scenes you see that I shot on this hike were with the least amount of people in them the entire way. Literally hordes of humans everywhere. Once we all get accustomed to the remote wilderness it’s very tough to deal with crowds anymore…
Such a gorgeous place! Crowded for sure.
Very nice.
I hate how crowded but always so gorgeous. Last time I went I lucked out and got a cold miserable rainy day in late winter and it was wonderful. As always, thanks for sharing 😊
Beautiful Zion! It's hard to be around so many people. We went in late April one year and it wasn't too bad. Just the nature of a popular National Park. Looks like you're having a great road trip!😁
Wow! Zion is so gorgeous! Great video. Too bad there was so many people.
Cool place, I’ll have to go there someday. Pismo Paul.
Once again beautiful! I wonder how the first week of October might be.
"Wayyy too many people!" Yeah, that's a crazy number of people and so crowded. But that's also a beautiful place and the facilities are kind of on a Disneyland scale. The bathrooms, buses, even the trails are set up to deliver the views of a park setting. I've only been to two National Parks, Yellowstone and Crater Lake, and Zion appears even more urbanized than Yellowstone. But i guess it's better to concentrate most visitors into specific spaces than have them destroying pristine areas that disrupt the natural ecosystem, at least the wildlife are somewhat separated and protected.
It’s exactly like Disneyland only prettier. People on top of people. Believe it or not the way I filmed this whole video is with the least amount of people in the clips as possible but it was impossible. The amount of people you saw at the end was how it was the entire trail I just had to be patient and wait for mini windows of not very many people. I wanted to hike the Narrows the next day but absolutely couldn’t imagine going back in that park, dealing with the lines for the bus then being wall to wall in the river on that trail with other humans. Every park drove me right out of there… couldn’t handle it
@@MarmaladeOutdoors I guess that's the purpose of National Parks, give most people an experience that's a verisimilitude of the original wilderness without the original difficulties of actual travel or daily existence. Quite fairly, it's the opposite of backpacking an area, which is also quite different than the daily indigenous experience of the area (recognizing that the indigenous experience has mostly disappeared, with all the associated positives and negatives). I suppose that's the best experience one could expect in such a small space, it's only ~250 square miles. The park cannot possibly support hundreds of visitors a day without a bunch of compromise. Even the limited backcountry trails where most visitors would not tread are just a handful of miles from the surrounding properties. But it is a beautiful and fascinating landscape.