Temples and Towers of the Virgin River

A few years ago I took my Arizona/Utah Workshop group to Zion National National Park, an unplanned detour for the group. We had been in Page, Arizona for several days working in and around the Southern end of Lake Powell. However it had started raining, and this wasn't any ordinary rain storm. This was a genuine "toad strangler" rain storm. If you were outdoors in any lower lying area, you were going swimming! Some of the participants had begun grumbling about not being able to get out. I then called a hotel in Springdale, Utah about rooms, they had enough so we packed up and moved there. As we came out of the tunnel on the east end of the Park - it's about a mile long tunnel - the whole of the valley was undercast in a thick cloud layer, so there wasn't much improvement. But as we descended to the valley floor the heavy over cast began breaking off and the conditions improved dramatically. We quickly moved to a spot I was familiar with, and things got very good, very quickly.