Yay!

I still can't believe I went up there!! There was one bit where you had to climb along part of a dead tree lodged in a crack and even with the chain it was absolutely terrifying. I have a huge poster of Angel's Landing and Walter's Wiggles on my office wall

Angel's Landing is in Zion National Park in Utah, Trev. I did it in December 2005 on a hiking holiday organised by Trek America's Footloose subsidiary (Trek America do 18-30s type camping holidays, Footloose do slightly more serious hiking holidays for slightly older people). There were about 12 clients on the trip from all over the world, and I booked cos I was on sabbatical and decided I'd have a real holiday. The holiday covered Zion, Bryce, Arches, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon and was a brilliant way to get back into the walking I'd stopped when I'd gone to university, though now I'd find the walks too short and unchallenging! That trip changed my life, cos shortly afterwards I found OM .

I read somewhere that Angel's Landing was considered to be one of the best half-day hikes in the world and was determined to do it no matter how scared I was. I still consider it to be the best short walk, and the most exhilarating walk, that I've ever done - by a very long way.

Trevor.

Just to elaborate on what Kate has said  the actual walk is about 2.5 miles from the bottom of the canyon to the top with about 1500ft of ascent.

Starts off level by the river and then climbs steeply up some zig zags to a path that runs between the Angels Landing rock and the canyon wall.

Then comes Kates Walters Wiggles. These are a series of VERY steep zig zags carved out of the rock which lead up to Scout Outlook which is pretty much where I took the photo . (apparently the path was built by an organisation called the CCC. This was the Civilian Conservation Corps and was set up by the US government in the depression in the 30s to get young people working.  Seems they did quite a bit of work in various US National Parks building paths etc. Certainly without this path this would be a serious rock climb, not a walk and a scramble)

Some people stop here, the views are great and if you are atall not good with heights the going gets very exposed from here.  I have done Crib Cogh and Striding Edge a few times but I reckon they are a picnic compared to this.  As Kate says it is scary even with the chains, but not to be missed.