Great story, Mark - Glad you found your way back "here" :) Hiking at Bryce back in the 80's, we decided to hike into the Peekaboo trail from the more or less flat trail that enters/exits near the town of Tropic.. about an 8 mile round trip. IT was apparent pretty quickly that a lot of the trail markers were going to be hard to find so when they were hard to see one of us would hang back until the other found the next marker.
Once we actually got close to the hoodoos and such, it was easy, but the wooded area could be confusing. So I stuck brightly colored signal dots that I carried to mark and number film rolls along the way - dayglow colors. I've never gone hiking without them since. on the return, we removed them as we went. The were especially helpful when it was getting dusky and we were quite tired. I don't think we saw another soul on that trail back then - everone else was descending from the rim and making a more taxing circle back up to the rim. annsan
