{"id":67741,"date":"2023-06-30T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=67741"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:43:29","slug":"utah-day-2-tropic-bryce-canyon-kodachrome-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/utah-day-2-tropic-bryce-canyon-kodachrome-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Day 2 – Tropic + Bryce Canyon + Kodachrome Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

One of the best things about the town of Tropic Utah is the weather.\u00a0 In June it was an amazing 58 degrees in the morning and a high of about 74 degrees when we were there.\u00a0 All thanks to the high elevation of 6,000+ ft.\u00a0 There’s a lot of wind and tons of UV light but I’ll take it over the heat and rain back home in Georgia.<\/p>\n

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These are the views around the cabin and town around 5am MST in the morning.<\/p>\n

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This is the view looking toward the west, right across from the cabin.<\/p>\n

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One thing about Tropic and this general area is that I had no cell service, sometimes not even SOS.\u00a0 Not until I got past the city sign did I get normal 5G or LTE, which is really odd.\u00a0 So plan accordingly.<\/p>\n

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These are views going back up north towards the roundabout that will take you to Bryce Canyon.\u00a0 Being in a valley you still have to get quite high up to see the light for a sunrise or sunset.<\/p>\n

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It’s a brief 10 minute drive from Tropic to get to this vista.\u00a0 There’s a pull off section that’s supposedly really good for stargazing and night sky photography.<\/p>\n

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This grocery store has a good amount of stuff for us city folks! Ramen, veggies, fruit drinks, chips, etc.<\/p>\n

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This is one of streets heading west\/north.\u00a0 Like most of the towns here they mostly stop pretty quick as you get closer to the mountain plateaus.<\/p>\n

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On this road there’s a fancy restaurant ($50-100\/meal).\u00a0 It also is a backway to a long hiking path to enter from the canyon floor of Bryce.\u00a0 It’s considered wilderness so again plan according when it comes to safety.<\/p>\n

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The view looking back into Tropic is very nice in the morning.<\/p>\n

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That tiny pixel off in the distance is a jack rabbit!<\/p>\n

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There is a coffee shop that opens at 7am.<\/p>\n

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So here’s the first main destination of the trip, Bryce canyon.\u00a0 On a really deep cut tangent, I’m old enough to remember the cg software plugin KPT Bryce.\u00a0 It was used to generate other worldly landscapes that were basically Bryce Canyon, but it was often times used for the background of rave flyers with anime girls in the front.<\/p>\n

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Bryce is celebrating its 100 anniversary and I really enjoyed that fact that this park is not that busy and you can pretty do whatever at your own pace–whether it be driving the full 18 miles or hike easy or hard paths.<\/p>\n

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These are doll prairie dogs!!\u00a0 Which you see in a later post!!<\/p>\n

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Random photos of Bryce Canyon from easy pull off spots.\u00a0 So amazing.<\/p>\n

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I’m actually kinda afraid of heights so these 8000+ ft high vistas are pretty nerve wracking for me.<\/p>\n

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Same shot but one is with the X100 and other A7.\u00a0 It’s taken me over ten years to finally enjoy editing the raw files of the X100.\u00a0 Out of camera it’s just bland and uninspiring, but the raw file can actually produce some full frame like results, with the haze and vignetting that I personally like.<\/p>\n

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These aspen trees we definitely don’t have in Georgia.\u00a0 I’d really like to go visit the forest full of them in upper Utah one day.\u00a0 These trees, being so close to the parking lot, were all ruined by folks carving their names into them.<\/p>\n

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Yep that’s a walking path that you can take down and around the amphitheater base.<\/p>\n

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Onward to lunch:<\/p>\n

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After lunch we headed south to another small town, Cannonville, and past that to Kodachrome Basin.\u00a0 Yep, named after the actual Kodak film.\u00a0 This whole time I couldn’t help but notice that Utah is like a big sprawling video game map.\u00a0 You go ten miles and a new texture pack is downloaded with all sorts of different colors.<\/p>\n

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This part of Utah is a bit hotter than Tropic though, with daytime temps in the 80’s.\u00a0 There’s a campground AND a cool laundromat inside this park.\u00a0 One of the trails leads up to a scary point on top of the plateau, which obviously is tailor made for IG photos.\u00a0 This area I think would actually be perfect for so many cosplay and themed photo shots.\u00a0 Being in the land of the dinosaurs so many things work, and of course lone ninja gaiden standing on a ridge surveying the land.\u00a0 Kodachrome basin is also a certified night sky place so galaxy photos here would be amazing.<\/p>\n

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The desert flowers are really nice and colorful.<\/p>\n

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Chimney rock, which is off the main path and ends in a spot only fit for 4x4s.<\/p>\n

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To be a mountain, this view was very interesting, almost 2D like.<\/p>\n

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Back in Tropic and Cannonville for the sunset.<\/p>\n

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One of the best things about the town of Tropic Utah is the weather.\u00a0 In June it was an amazing 58 degrees in the morning and a high of about 74 degrees when we were there.\u00a0 All thanks to the high elevation of 6,000+ ft.\u00a0 There’s a lot of wind and tons of UV light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[173,262,371,351,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-67741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-color","9":"tag-fujifilm-x100","10":"tag-komorebi","11":"tag-landscapes","12":"tag-sony","14":"post-with-thumbnail","15":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t