Winding Down in Page – September 13, 2021 |

With only one day left to try to see all that Page has to offer, we started out early and found several “photo spots” around town on our own, including Lone Rock Beach, Greenhaven Overlook, and Horseshoe Bend all on Lake Powell.

Over the past few days, we have heard really interesting stories about Page and the slot canyons. One that really struck me as memorable is why guides are so careful about any rain in the area before continuing with scheduled tours. Norman, our Navajo guide, told us that the Navajo people measure rain storms as male and female with male being heavy. The rain water from all mountains and mesa funnels down and even a female rain can move large boulders and debris miles down the stream, many moving at 40 mph. This is why our tour scheduled on Friday afternoon was cancelled for a small sporadic rain early on. Actually, about 5 years ago a tour for people from France was cancelled, but 12 people from the group decided to proceed on their own because they could jump the fence. When the water from probably 30 miles away reached them, it was too late to run or get out of the way. Most of the bodies were never found. How’s that for evidence that following the rules and instructions are important.

In the afternoon we had our cancelled tour from Friday of Alstrom Point with a private guide, Tyler, that would last 6 hours and include the Grand Staircase of Escalante and a sunset stop at the point. Tyler was born and raised in Page and moved to Phoenix for 10 years after college graduation but eventually came to his senses and came back to start this tour company. Tyler’s knowledge of the area was fantastic and interesting. You know there were lots of questions, and he had the answer to all of them (unless he was using Frances’ philosophy of just say anything because they don’t know).