At 8000 feet, Bryce is even snowier than Capitol Reef National Park. The town of prairie dogs we saw last summer are now hibernating, buried under a blanket of snow. We walked to Sunset Point, where a gust with a subzero windchill blew out of the Ampitheatre area, freezing us instantly.
The strange and wondrous hoodoos of Bryce Canyon stretched out before us, with redrock mesas in the distance. The hoodoos are created when layers of different rock types weather at different rates, leaving behind columns. More resistant rock weathers slower, leaving a capstone on top of more fragile rock.
We watched the sun set, and the long light of pink alpenglow settled over the tall spires of rocks around us.