angels landing

dawson has a very granola side to him that not many people know about.  he has been dying for months to go hike in zion and was very distraught when we couldn't go as planned in september because of that government shut down thing.  

now national parks are up and running again, so dawson made sure he put zion on the schedule for the weekend so that i had no choice but to go along with it (but i'm a little granola too so i was pretty ok with it).

we (but really dawson) decided to do the angel's landing hike.  as you can see we were very excited at the beginning of it all.  it might not look that high from the picture, but looks can be deceiving.

the fact that the path was so narrow at the top that they had to put chains on the mountain to hold onto wasn't that comforting.  neither was the fact that the chains looked about 100 years old.

this was the last part of the hike to get to the top of the peak.  again, it doesn't really look that narrow and i wish it did so everyone could be more impressed with our daringness. 

but when you are climbing on chains with a 1000+ ft drop on either side of you, your hands are bound to get sweaty and thoughts of falling to your death are very real (at least they were for me).

it was an amazing view from the top.  i really felt like an angel because i was so close to the heavens (joking).  i'm not really afraid of heights but dawson is so i was very proud of him for being one with his fear and making it to the top without any cursing.

it was also really windy and there were 3 or 4 different groups up there that were all foreign and were speaking in their own language.  after a few minutes i felt like they were looking at us funny and i started getting anxiety.  i told dawson i thought they were talking about pushing me off the edge, so we headed back down.

dang it.  our after pictures still don't do the height any justice.  but just know that my mom, who won't go on the ferris wheel at lagoon because of her fear of heights, wouldn't have made it even halfway up.

big thanks to dawson for making us be adventurous!!!