From Bryce to Canyonlands

In the morning just after finishing the sunrise photo session at Sunrise Point we left amazing Bryce Canyon. We decide to take road 12 through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef NP. This is very scenic road going through an interesting part of Utah. We saw some fields watered by machines that generated ice instead of water - quite surprising picture! I'm still wondering for what they do this kind of field icing? Maybe you know the answer?
In the Grand Staircase-Escalante there's very interesting waterfall on the Calf Creek - or even two waterfalls - upper and lower. We decided to take a trip to lower one, because seemed to be easier. Going there is worth every minute and every bead of sweat. What you see at the end of the trails is really wonderful! We took many pictures of the waterfall from different angles - after filling all memory cards decided to get back to the car and finally go to the Dead Horse Point State Park where we had reservation at campground. It took us almost the whole day, but we arrived just in time for sunset photo session at Dead Horse Point Overlook.
In the dark we set up our tent on pad number 4. Of course nobody is working here so late, so we had to do everything ourselves: pay entrance fee, register at campground, set up tent, etc. After quick supper we reviewed our plans for the next day and it turned out that we don't have enough fuel - unfortunately nearest gas is in Moab - 32 miles away. We decide to go there to buy some gas and some food for next few days. We returned to the campground really late and on our way back almost hit the black cow on the black road in the pitch black night - cows are everywhere here, because there's open range.
We sleep in the tent - it is whorishly cold and I have to sleep in all what I have - night temperatures were for sure below 32F. We somehow survived the night and almost 2 hours before dawn we headed to famous Mesa Arch for morning photo session.

Bryce Canyon

Today we came to Bryce Canyon NP. It's icy cold and very windy here. Yesterday when we fallen into the Hatch hotel in shorts, outside was snowing. Fortunately room had very good heater and it got warm pretty fast. In Bryce, besides very low temperatures (sometimes even less than 28F), cold wind is still blowing. But let's be honest - it's about 3000m over the sea level. I'm not ready for such weather and even though I've t-shirt, two fleece jackets and regular jacket, I feel cold. This is probably because I don't have hat. Luckily there's a very good gift shop/trading post where you can buy everything, starting with groceries, through gifts to clothes. They've everything except... winter hats that I heavily need. They of course have a bunch of summer hats against sun - these guys probably mixed up seasons. I quickly figured out that the only solution is to buy hooded jacket and use it instead of hat against wind and cold.
Equipped in hoods we go photographing Bryce Canyon. First the Rainbow and Yovimpa points. Here we found snow, because it's the coldest point in the whole Bryce Canyon - temperatures are about 20F. We can't stand here for a long time, so we get back to Bryce Point, Inspiration Point and Sunset Point for sunset pictures. It's getting late and light is changing for the worse. We are completly frozen.
Fortunately we reserved a cabin for a night - this is a kind of wooden house in the campground. Luckily we discover that there's power and heater in the cabin, but we have to use our own bedding - sleeping bags act well. The decision is to prepare some kind of supper very quickly and eat something hot, so we fire up our MSR burner (thanks Michael!) and cook some instant food. By chance we just checked if we can see any wireless networks in our cabin, and... BINGO! - our laptop found 4 wireless networks! In the campground located in the wilderness - it's just America. Tomorrow we are going to sleep in a tent in Canyonlands NP - if there'll be Internet, I'll make sure that Poland is backward country...

Some more details

Today I decided to show you something more. I mean more about our planned trip (less than 40 days left to departure!!!). So here's the map of our planned route. As you can see, after departing Page we'll head to Toroweap - probably the most deserted point in the Grand Canyon Area, but as I heard, still accessible by car. We plan to spend at least one night there sleeping in a tent. Later we have plans for more common places like Zion NP, Bryce NP, Canyonlands NP, Arches NP - but we plan to visit some less known nooks of these famous locations. I can only say, that we also have permits for Subway in Zion NP. It seems to be very interesting place, although requiring some effort to get in.
Later we dream of seeing Monument Valley, Grand Canyon South Rim and famous Havasu Falls. In the last mentioned we have ambitious plans to get to Beaver Falls and also use alternative route to take some pictures of Mooney Falls from the top of upper canyon rim - it's the route that forks near cemetery - only that is mysterious enough to try this less known part of Havasupai reservation.
Hope you enjoy reading my scribbles? If not, then don't worry - as I promised in first blog entry, I'm doing it more for me myself than for others to read. I'm just practicing my english before the trip :) Hasta luego seniores i senioras...