Park Avenue
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Following our trip to the park visitor center, where they have yet more water bottles as well as an amazing three-dimensional topological map of the park, we elect to begin by taking a 'short and easy hike' down Park Avenue, featured prominently in the opening of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". We do not bring water, as this is to have been a short hike... but the erosion plane just keeps drawing us forward, on to better and better vistas.
We make it to the bottom, and almost to the far road nearly a mile and a half away before we finally turn back.
After jumping in the car (and turning on the air conditioning), we look at my blotchy red face and hereby swear to never leave the vehicle without at least one water bottle again.