Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
As I sit down to recap the day, I don’t know where this post will lead. This is supposed to be a journal of our traveling and adventurings, both of which we did a lot of today. But today has been so much more than a hike and a long drive. We started out early. […]
Read More Day 11: Observation Point in Zion to MancosAnd I’ve waited for her for so long I’ve waited for her for so long I’ve wondered if I could hang on I’ve wondered if I could hang on, yeah CAKE I didn’t expect to be in Mancos tonight, but here I am. We started the morning early, a 5:30 AM alarm woke us up. […]
Read More Let Me GoToday was are rest day so I’m going to keep this short. Thĺus morning we slept in and had poptarts and apple sauce (we did eat this well under parent supervision). We then rested for a bit then hit the town. All we did there was have lunch. Then when we got back zoe and […]
Read More ⚾️💧💤*This post has my blog from today and yesterday because I did not have enough wifi to post yesterday. I am also going to post my blog from yesterday individually but it will also be here* Post from 6/23-Today was are rest day so I’m going to keep this short. Thĺus morning we slept in […]
Read More 🥾🚘🏠We all slowly awoke this morning in a good amount of pain. We all had sore arms, from using using the chains like our life depended on it. (They did.) Our legs were sore from the 4000 feet of gain of the past two days. Today was our rest day and we did just that. […]
Read More Day 10: Rest Day at ZionToday was such a fun day! We hiked to the top of Angel’s Landing. It wasn’t that bad at all over all except my legs are sore now. I was not looking forward to today but it ended up being really good. The first part of the hike was a bunch of large switchbacks. It […]
Read More Angel’s LandingIt’s like trying to catch a falling star The Heights Phew, what a day! We woke up at Bryce Canyon, loaded up Fred and were on the road before 8 this morning. The destination was Zion NP. The two hour drive was relatively easy except for my credit card being locked in a gas pump […]
Read More How Do You Talk To An AngelIf you Google the most dangerous hikes, you’ll find Angel’s Landing on Zion at the top of all the lists. We’ve intentionally avoided this hike for years. We watched the videos, we read the testimonials. We knew it wasn’t for us. Then the park service created a permit system, drastically reducing the hikers allowed on […]
Read More Day 9: Angel’s LandingI hate you Walter. No not you Walter. The Walter that almost made me die today on his wiggles. you know the “Walter wiggles”.Today we woke up and Hite the road. We had a two hour drive ahead of us and we wanted to arrive at our new destination by 10 ish. We were on […]
Read More 🚶♀️🪨⏰As we wrapped up today’s hike, I told Ellie she slayed it. She was mortified, as the crowd what somewhat dense at the trailhead. She whisper-yelled at me, “Mom!! That’s a very Gen Z word and you’re very millennial!” I thought we had slayed the day, but apparently there is a better, more hip word […]
Read More Day 8: Bryce Canyon NP: Navajo Loop, Peekaboo Loop, Bryce Point Lookout