The Wave! Part of the Nation’s newest National
Monument: Post June 16 2014:
Waking up on the side of road isn’t the best place for
making breakfast. So we headed down into
the town of Kanab which also welcomed cell phone service!
Hooray! We could once again connect with the outside
world. While downloading the current
news via internet we learned that if we hurried to the visitors center we could
enter into a daily lottery for a permit to visit the very exclusive “Wave”
feature in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. So exclusive in fact that only 20 permits are
given per day. 10 via months in advance
reservation and 10 via a lottery system the previous day. Alright!
Well, when we showed up the visitor’s center was completely
full of half asleep and hopeful travellers not unlike ourselves. Hmm… This is going to be harder than I
though.
Within in 2 minutes of us walking in the door we were all
ushered into a large meeting room where there were about 40 chairs (all were
filled) and a large bingo ball roller cage at the front of the room. This was quite the event.
We all filled out permit information and were assigned
numbers corresponding to our group. Kate and I received the number 11.
Things were looking good.
11 is my favorite number.
Dun dun duhhhhh….
And it did work out for us! We were the 3rd group
called and snagged a permit to the Wave!
Since we had to wait until the next day to use our permit,
we explored around the area for the day and found a great campground to call
our own. Check out these pictures from
buckskin gulch – The longest slot canyon in the world. 26 miles in all.
I’ll let the pictures describe the next day. It was A-MAZING!
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