How My Rock Gently Weeps
Zion National Park, UT
Toward the north end of Zion Canyon is Weeping Rock, perhaps the best display of canyon wall leakage to be found in the park. Various sources estimate the age of the water dripping out of the rock to be 1,500 to 4,000 years old. The kids, who had long since aired their disdain for hiking on this trip, were thrilled and eager to walk up the short but very steep path and fill up a plastic water bottle with what we later mark as “prehistoric water.”