Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
My whole body is sore. My toes are covered in blisters. I’m slightly sunburned. I’m hungry. I can literally smell the dry sweat on my body. And I’m absolutely exhausted. But it was a perfect day. I’ll get to today in just a bit, but let me recap yesterday since we didn’t have wifi to […]
Read More Days 11 and 12: Yosemite NPToday we woke up in a tent. We had alarms set for 7:00. Zoe and my dad got up before that. They cleaned up their tent and then took down their tent. Later me and my mom got up. Then me and my mom put everything away and then we put our tent away. We […]
Read More Cow 10I don’t really know where to begin. The past three days have been a whirlwind for sure. Some highs and some lows. When all is said and done, we camped two nights in a row, one of which was backpacking! Success! We saw some of the most amazing caves I’ve stepped foot in. We fell […]
Read More Days 8-10: Great Basin NP, Lehman Caves and Lee Vining, CAWe backpacked for the first time. Yep! And, we survived! I am going to give some highs of the weekend. Saturday – The parade: It was part of the Snake Valley Festival a protest to save the water and had 10 floats and had maybe 20? people watching it. The campsite: It was overlooking Pyramid […]
Read More Backpacking and CavesAfter three days in Great Basin NP we’re finally on the road again. We’re currently somewhere in the middle of Nevada on our way to Lee Vining, CA where we’ll spend a night before moving on to Yosemite NP. It’s been a whirlwind few days and we recorded some video blogs that either have been […]
Read More Free Fallin’Devil’s Garden, 8 miles, 1,200 feet of elevation, and sandy all describe today. If you don’t remember in 2015 we were in a flash flood at Arches National Park. Whenever we hike on that trail I am still a little bit afraid. Today half of our family woke up at 5:30 and the other half […]
Read More Devil’s GardenToday we hiked 8 miles, in Arches National Park.(My favorite NP.) It was the fastest 8 miles we have ever hiked. At least I think it was. We started at a downhill, which meant ending on uphill. We went about 0.1 miles before we saw our first arch of the hike. 1 of the arches […]
Read More Cow 7Well today was nothing at all like the original plan. We were supposed to wake up at the Kimpton Monaco Denver and drive across Colorado and Utah to a nice deserted campground at Great Basin NP. It’s also turning out to be nothing like the second plan which was to hike at Arches then drive […]
Read More You Can’t Always Get What You WantI think we have officially made peace with the Primitive Trail and Devil’s Garden Trail at Arches. It was two years ago that we survived the Great Flash Flood of 2015 on this trail. Last year we successfully completed it and had a great time. This year was the same as last year! We had […]
Read More Day 7: Devil’s Garden and the Primitive TrailSince we first visited two years ago, I have always really enjoyed Canyonlands. Our first visit took us to the Islands in the Sky, and we spent significant time last year in Horseshoe Canyon. This year we explored the final area that had been left untouched by us, the Needles District. We have some huge […]
Read More Day 6: The Needles District of Canyonlands NP