#06: Zion National Park: Hiking The Narrows

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Standing in waist-deep water while looking up at the towering canyon walls, the scene was breath-taking. Or, maybe it was the cold water splashing our midsections that was taking our breath away. Join us as we hike The Narrows, one of the most magnificent areas of Zion National Park. On today's episode, we talk about our experiences while hiking up the Virgin River through The Narrows, what to bring if you’re thinking of doing it yourself, and other how-to tips. In this episode we discuss: Why we’re wearing the same clothes in all of our National Park sign pictures The best time of year to hike The Narrows What to bring and what not to bring Why you might need a permit What we did for work before quitting our jobs to visit the National Parks Links: To see photos from our travels, visit our Instagram account, or TikTok account The Narrows NPS website Join the conversation on Facebook Our books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any day you don't, you don't drown and you can eat pizza off the dashboard of your cars,
0:05.8	it's gotta be a good day. This is the Dear Bob and Zoo Podcast,
0:24.7	Our Stories of Adventures and Misadventures as we travel to all the U.S. National Parks
0:29.9	and other public lands.
0:31.7	I'm Karen Smith. And I'm Matt Smith and we're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sue series of books.
0:37.5	Today we're waiting into a wonderful hike that we did in Zion National Park.
0:41.5	Yeah, the Zion Narrows is a beautiful slot canyon
0:45.3	where the trail is actually a river
0:47.6	that you have to wade through.
0:49.4	Or swim through in some sections
0:51.4	when the water can get up to chest deep at times.
0:54.0	Yeah but if you talk to a ranger and check the conditions out ahead of time this is a
0:59.6	magical and altogether safe hike for those who don't mind getting their shoes a little
1:03.4	wet or in our case completely soaking wet. And to kick things off we discuss why it
1:10.6	appears as though we're wearing the same clothes in many of our pictures
1:14.7	taken in front of the National Park entrance signs even though the pictures have
1:19.2	been taken years apart and at the end of the episode we'll answer a question from a listener in our mailbag segment.
1:27.0	You know what bothers me a little bit though?
1:35.0	Like a hundred thousand things.
1:39.0	No.
1:40.0	Name one. I looked at the pictures this morning of our hike when we did the narrows hike like 10 years ago
1:46.9	I'm wearing the same clothes I'm wearing like literally right now as we're recording this podcast at least the same shirt. I know you are.
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