So Are You

“This is somewhere and I’m somebody now so are you” The Mulligan Brothers We’ve been racking up quite a hiking record the last few days! Saturday we reached 12,100 feet in the San Juans and for the past two we’ve been backpacking at just over 5,000 in the Needles section of Canyonlands. For as insanely […]

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Day 25: Canyonlands

Today and a lot of good and a fair amount of bad. I’ll start with the more unfortunate, to get it out of the way. Ellie’s glasses broke. We’re trying the Gorilla Glue method of fixing them, but I’m not very hopeful. We’re heading to Salt Lake City in a couple of days where there […]

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Day 25

Today we woke up early in tents we quickly packed up tents repacked our packs grabbed cliff bars then got back on the trail we had a 6 miles hike back to the car today and it was a lot like yesterday up and down on steep rock. After about a mile we came apon […]

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finishing canyonlands and moab

This morning started bright and early. I don’t think I ever fell asleep last night because I tried to see the stars but the moon was so bright they felt like the ensemble and didn’t even show up. by thr time I considered going to sleep I kept slipping down to the bottom of the […]

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Fettuccine Alfredo

No, I did not get a large buttery, cheesy, hot bowl of fettuccine alfredo but I would do just about anything for one right now to replace the essence of chewy gross beef jerky I just tried to swallow for dinner. We woke up decently late and enjoyed a warm cinnamon roll outside before heading […]

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Day 22

Today we got to sleep in which was amazing especially because I just found out we have to get up at 6 tommorow. We got breakfast at the hotel then drove to the property where we checked in on the tents and progress. We then drove to drango and had lunch at a park. Our […]

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Day 24: Canyonlands

We spent a lot of time debating about canceling our backpacking reservations at Canyonlands over the past couple of weeks. When we were here with the Otts, highs were in the hundred and teens. We knew we couldn’t hike and then camp in temps like that. But, when we looked at the weather a few […]

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