Next destination after Zion was Bryce Canyon, but on the way we took a short detour to see the Cedar Breaks National Monument.
The Pontiac climbed to 10,000 feet and the temperature dropped from 18 to 3 C within 30 minutes. Cedar Breaks monument is a landform resulting from the erosion of an ancient lake bed. The erosion has revealed a spectacular display of differently coloured sediment layers, and pillars, caves and arches. Nearby is a stand of ancient bristle cone trees. This species is the longest living thing on earth, with some bristle cones living to over 3,000 years! The area around Cedar Breaks is a snow-skiing area in winter, and we passed many ski cabins, but currently there is no snow – the fields are all late autumn gold.
We continued on to Bryce Canyon and booked into a motel just out of the park, ready to make an early start tomorrow.
