Day 27, March 29, 2023, Tuesday. St. George, UT

This morning we moved into a FHU site with WiFi. Also got a haircut at The Tall Barber. Asked barber not to give me a crewcut but it came awfully close. Oh well, maybe I won’t need another haircut until we get home.  In the afternoon we went back to the Snow Canyon State Park. We wanted to hike the 1.5 mile cinder cone trail which is rated difficult with a steep slope and 500 foot elevation gain. We made it about two-thirds of the way but the trail was only about 18 inches wide with steep drop offs and the wind became too strong to maintain a good balance so we turned around. We then hiked the Petrified Dunes trail, a moderate 1.2 miles. This hike was great fun- walking on sand dunes without the soft sand struggle but easy smooth rock.  We reach heights which offered great views of the canyon.  I’m not sure how sand becomes petrified instead of blowing away, especially with the strong winds we encountered. We had thought for our next stop we would go to the Great Basin National Park about 200 miles north but the low temp was 11 and the feels like is minus 6 so we’ll pass on heading further north at this time.   This Florida boy just doesn’t understand March/April winter outside of his home state.