10.15 Angels Landing #6, a revisit in the dark for sunrise.
First Light at Angels . A small part of the formal trail prior to the free-climbing slab, up in the dark, down in the light Jenni greets the sun: "How ya'll doing? We've been waiting, Big Fella"—sunrise and sunset proved to be disappointing at Angels (you can't have it all in one place) We sat in the car , in the dark at the trailhead at 5:45am on Sunday morning while the wind howled, chasing the temperatures down further. We are enjoying wonderful weather in Zion but not at 6 in the morning, apparently. We looked at each other, thinking we are going to climb that slab with narrow ledges in this wind, reaching 5,800 feet. Why? We didn’t need to say anything, we understood. For a minute, we thought we had lost it—this happens from time to time. However, the dumb thought passed quickly, our minds cleared and we headed up for the peak, reaching it after 75 minutes, a fairly quick time. Not that it was a race but we wished to be there before the sun. With ...