Winter Garden Magazine October 2016 | Page 37

The top of Angel’s Landing is technically a hike up a narrow sandstone fin, using chains to scale the rocks that separate you from the spot so remote, the idea was that only an angel could reach this isolated location. When you are determined to manifest in your life, a change to be healthy and well, or more thrilled about daily life, you will make the choice to actualize that decision. The Angel’s Landing hike peaks atop a summit that views Zion Canyon and begins with a steady climb up switchback after switchback, with an exposed edge dropping straight down, and on the other side of the seven-foot wide paved path, the stable and unmoving base of the mountain. Much like anything you attempt in life, your steps up this climb of determination start off relatively easy, and you’re probably not giving much thought to where your feet are making contact; instead ogling the views around you and taking in the environment of clumps of cactus, or the red walls of mountains solid and strong within reach, and far in the distance and across deep valleys. Are not the friends and people around us daily, such as these mountains? You walk beside some friends that are within tangible reach, and yet