Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We got to sleep in!! All the way until 7:00. We’ve talked about it and there is no way this can be described as a vacation. Maybe a trip, an adventure, a journey, but there is very little down time. We go, go, go everyday, with the most physically exhausting activities I’ve ever put my […]
Read More Day 15: Natural Bridges National MonumentWe woke up and left Moab this morning. As I mentioned yesterday we’re all pretty sure we’ll be back again soon. There is just so much to do and see in that area that there’s no way we could do it all in just 4 days. After some legit bread for breakfast, so legit that […]
Read More Honey, I’m Good!Today we did not do a lot of hiking. We did 2.5 miles althgether. The total number of hikes we did was four little hikes. The first hike we did we saw one of three bridges in the monument. It was a 1.6 mile hike. Here is a picture of the bridge: The second stop […]
Read More The 15th DayToday was one of those days where Fred was crying for us to get inside of him, so we did! We drove, and drove! We started the day in Utah, and ended the day in Colorado. We drove to Natural Bridges National Monument. It was amazing they only have 3 bridges, ( an arch only […]
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Read More Synchronized SwimmingI feel head over heels in love with Arches today. When we were here six years ago, Ellie was at a stage that required a leash. She fondly called it her leash buddy and I got over the judging from other parents. We didn’t do any hikes other than ones that Zak could carry her […]
Read More Day 14: Devil’s Garden at Arches NPFor this blog post I will write it in sections. Here’s the first one: Morning This morning the rest of the family woke up between 5 and 6. I didn’t want to so my dad got me out of bed and he tried to wake me up, but I managed to get him out of […]
Read More The 14th DayToday we did the same hike that we did last year at Arches. Only last year we did a shorter amount of the trail because we were in a flash flood. This year was the exact opposite, it was 111 degrees and the sun was so high in the sky there was no shade at […]
Read More Devils Garden – ArchesOddly, we’ve kind of settled into a routine here in Moab. We wake up early, this morning that meant 5 AM, to avoid the worst of the after noon heat. We hike, today we completed the Devil’s Garden area of Arches that gave us so much trouble last year, but I’ll get more into that […]
Read More Hold Back the RiverThis morning we headed back to Canyonlands NP, this time to the popular Islands in the Sky district. We had a fabulous hike here last year on the Neck Springs trail, but didn’t go any deeper into the park than that so it was high on our list of places we wanted to return to. […]
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