Our morning hike was rather boring, a walk to a local bike shop to get a flat fixed( a goats head thorn- nasty business ). While having coffee the Deep Canyon Coffee we struck up a conversation with a couple of locals regarding the hordes on the hiking trails in Zion. They took pity on us and gave us directions to a hike that is not notated on park maps. We saw no one on our 2 1/2 hour hike. So today we drove to the east side of the park and bushwhacked through a small wash and on slick rock terraces near Checkerboard Mesa. What follows are pictures fom both hikes.