Navajo Loop is part of Navajo Trail and comes back up on Wall Street
The morning sun really made the hoodoos and spires look like they were ablaze!
When you are on top of the cliffs looking down into these canyons the formation look small. As you can see from these full grown trees the formations are quite enormous.
It's amazing how the forest grows among the rock, very beautiful!
There are many trails that weave in and out of the rock formations. I definitely want to come back to Bryce Canyon and hike more of the trails!
Everything in this canyon was so cool I just couldn't stop taking pictures. I'm glad I did this hike in the morning because the light reflection shots were fantastic!
This small tunnel was unexpected but it's really cool!
This part of the trail is Wall Street aptly named because of the retaining walls built in order to create the switchbacks to get back out of the canyon.
I love it when I get shots of the sun just peeking over the cliffs. It feels like God is saying "Good Morning"!
Birth of a HooDoo
HooDoo formation- HooDoos don’t grow like trees but are eroded out of the cliffs where rows of narrow walls form. These thin walls of rock are called fins.
Frost-wedging enlarges cracks in the fins, creating holes or windows. As the windows grow, their tops eventually collapse, leaving a column. Rain further dissolves and sculpts these limestone pillars into bulbous spires called HooDoos. The balance between snow and rain keeps the process going so that new hoodoos emerge while others are reduced to lumps of clay.
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