Day 8 - Bryce National Park

With an amount of rest and a sunny day we left our lake campsite and headed east in the pull car for another day of touring a national park.  This time our one hour drive east took us to Bryce National Park.  Wow, crowded and parking at a minimum.  The park shuttle lot was full and the lines to get on the free shuttle were huge.  We decided to drive to the end of the park road and see what the status was.  It was as good decision as there were spots to park at each of the lookouts.  The views of the hoodoos (sandstone columns) were outstanding, albeit the drop-offs from the trail edges worked on the nerves and fear of heights.

 The park has a really nice system of bike paths, paved, and lined, and not too busy.  We parked the car and unloaded the bikes.  At 8500' pedalling was a bit taxing and we ended up doing just a short ride.  Halfway through the ride it started to rain and that ended our cycling for the day.

We headed back to camp for our last night at the lake.  It rained the rest of the day and well into the night.  Looks like summer on this equinox eve is coming to an end.