Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Today was another 24 hour day. We did 3 hikes plus some smaller. The first one was 2 miles, but it felt much longer. We saw an outer space rock but it is all gone now. It was strenuous and hot and tiring and sweaty and hard and sunny and miserable and rocky and beautiful […]
Read More The 13th DayIt’s another really, really hot day here. I believe this is our third day in the 100s. It is just so hot. We tried to start really early this morning, but it just wasn’t happening. Instead, we didn’t start the 40 minute drive to Canyonlands National Park until 7:40. (I promised the whole family that […]
Read More Day 13- Canyonlands: Island in the SkyToday we did not do a lot of hiking. We did 3 little hikes, a total of 6 miles. We saw some out of this world views literally. It felt like I was looking at outerspace. I could see the whole world. It was HOT 111 degrees. Fred, our car said it was only 89 […]
Read More Island In The Sky District – Canyon Lands National ParkFirst and foremost, happy Father’s Day to Zak and my dad! You are both the cream of the crop and the girls and I couldn’t be luckier. I can’t believe we are only on day 12 and have already experienced so much. Today was another one added to the list of Days I Never Ever […]
Read More Day 12: Arches and Fiery FurnaceToday got off to a fabulous start and has just stayed on that track. Shortly after waking up I got a Taco Cat T-shirt for Father’s Day! After just a few more minutes I got a nice breakfast on the patio of the hotel. Then we only had to drive 10 minutes rather than the […]
Read More Piece of My HeartToday was another 24 hour day. We did amazing things. First we did a ranger led hike. The ranger told me what he did to become a ranger. He told us about arches. The three things an arch has to have is one rock. It can’t be two rocks leaning against each other. Number two. […]
Read More day 12Today we were at Arches National Park. We did a tour guided hike. It was amazing! We scrambled, balanced, and jumped. Another thing we got to do is crawl through a little arch. We were mostly in shade. Our Ranger was nice he helped me find a yucca plant for my junior ranger booklet. The […]
Read More Fiery Furnace – Arches National ParkThankfully, I didn’t need to use the can of bear spray I slept next to and we all woke up bright and early at 5. I thought we were moving really quickly packing things up, but we didn’t start the hike until 6:20. Why so early? Well, being in the middle of the desert, we […]
Read More Day 11: Horseshoe CanyonWe woke up this morning in one of the coolest places I’ve ever woken up: in the middle of the desert. We wanted to get an early start on the day since the forecast was for temperatures to be nearing 100 degrees by noon. Our alarms went off at 5 and I was up and […]
Read More Way Down We GoOddly, after yesterday’s hike, we all had a lot of trouble sleep. Except Ellie, whose snores indicated a great night’s sleep. We all woke up with our whole bodies aching in soreness. Except Ellie, who suggested the one advil she took without water was stronger than what the rest of us took with water. We […]
Read More Day 10: Bryce, Grand Staircase Escalante, Capitol Reef