Rainbow Bridge Hike (May 2008)

In a last minute, I was able to join Mike on his three day backpack trip around Navajo Mountain, through a maze of canyons and slickrock, to one of the last discovered natural wonders of the world--Rainbow Bridge. After obtaining a permit from Effie Yazzie in Page, we went on a long road up to Navajo Mountain. The last five miles were very rough, but we finally found the trailhead, and hiked 6+ miles to our campsite at the bottom of Nasjah Canyon. The second day we dayhiked to the bridge and back to our original campsite--over 16 miles of up and down through beautiful slickrock canyons.




Almost to our campsite.














These colorful sandstone peaks were surrounding us in Nasjah Canyon.











Me up above our campite, where we spent two nights.













If you look close I am almost near the bottom of the bridge, which is 300 some odd feet high and 200 some odd feet wide.







There were no other tourists at the bridge while we spent an hour or two eating lunch, so we enjoyed it to ourselves. Lake Powell is so low that it is a two mile hike for most boat tourists to come see the bridge.