Rain.

You guessed it.

Rain.

downpour.

all day.

headed over to the visitor's center to plug in the electronics and get things charged ... turns out that the town is close enough for free WiFi! score!

headed back to the tents and tarp ... and the river flowing through the camp. and the soggy chairs that were supposed to be covered by the tarp. apparently when there is driving rain, it can get around a slanted tarp. approximately a 1 ft by 4 ft dry area.

the next four hours were spent finding ways of arranging the tarp so that it would dump as much water as possible on me. three changes of clothes later - and I had a full gortex jacket - we were ready to head into town.

an hour later. when we finally got out of the trench that seperates our campsite from the main road. and is exactly the width and depth of on SUV tire. yep. awesome. not at clean spot left. big Shout out thank you goes to John K----- who gave us enough boards to pile up to finally get out of the trench! see you at the balloon festival!

bought three bundles of firewood - had the smokiest fire we've had yet - with supposedly dry wood under a four foot tarp - tied off to the SUV - with a box of wine - and more food for dinner than we could have realistically eaten ...

The womenfolk left with wine and vodka and came back two hours later with "lyle, lyle, virgin" written on Meg's hand ... apparently they had quite the trip on the shuttle ... shuttle doesn't get much night travelers ... I made six pounds of chicken, two boxes of parmesian noodles, used two bundles and the air mattress pump to make a furnace ... to dry off enough towels to have something dry for the morning ... furnace. at least we didn't lose too many towels.

that's the second night in Zion. perpetual damp. needless to say, didn't go on the hike. took some pictures of the rain.

word of the day : MOIST.