Day 2 of our trip was FANTASTIC!!! We stopped at lots of the scenic views off of Scenic Byway 12--Voted the 2nd most beautiful drive in the world. And it was gorgeous! These pictures don't do it justice at all. It was amazing too, because you went through soaring red rock canyons of Capitol Reef to forests of bristlecone pine and then turn another corner and the landscape would completely change again, till you hit the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon. It's my favorite drive I've ever been on (the second being Going-to-the-Sun Highway in Glacier). But I LOVE Hell's Backbone. It's a part of the road where both sides just drop off in sheer cliffs and you can see for miles and it's just nothing but desert. I love the height and desolation. I know I'm weird. Anasazi State Park kind of broke up the trip a bit. I don't know that I'd bother ever stopping again. And we spent the afternoon hiking the Lower Calf Creek Falls (that's part 2) before camping the night at the Petrified Forest State Park--which is pretty, but really what makes it really nice is the reservoir to swim in. Anyway, here was our itinerary for that day:
- Visit Anazasi State Park
- Camp at Petrified Forest State Park (Lakeview Site C #2-35494205)
- Hike Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail
- Swim at Petrified Forest
- Breakfast: Omelets in a bag
- Dinner: Campfire pizza log & watermelon & berry crisp
So I may not have burnt the tinfoil dinners the night before but I scorched our pizza roll. Luckily just scooping out the middle gave us more than enough food and worked fine. The Berry Crisp was divine. Seriously, it's my favorite camping dessert I make (we had it camping in Texas too where I was told confidentially by a ward member/friend that it beat everyone else's dutch oven cobblers hands down.)
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