The place: Awesome, inspiring, magnificent, grand, huge, phenomenal, cool, hot, bright, moonlit, muddy red Colorado (it’s smell and the sight), bats, high cliff edges, deep canyons, cool shade of cottonwood tree oasis, solitary prickly pear cactus, babbling Bright Angle Creek, amazing, solitary silence, suspension bridges, sparkling star filled sky, composting pit toilets, mule poop

The journey: exciting, exhausting, fun,
humbling, challenging, satisfying, a sense of accomplishment, invigorating, camaraderie
of fellow hikers, annoying behavior of fellow hikers (headlamps, peeing in
public)