Finally hiking the Narrows

Finally got to do the Narrows.

If you go

The bottom-up Narrows from the Temple of Sinawava needs no permit — you just wade up the Virgin River as far as you want and turn around — but it only goes when the flow is low enough, and the Park Service closes it on high water or flash-flood risk. In spring and fall, rent neoprene socks and canyoneering boots in town; the water is cold and the rounded cobbles are slick. Top-down, through the whole canyon, is a separate permitted day.