Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
The craziness of today was exactly the opposite of yesterday’s rest day. We woke up at 6:30 so we’d be able to pack up, get ready, and still get Molly her coffee in time to meet our leader for the day at 9. Everything went smoothly and the girls even had time to write a […]
Read More Beautiful DayToday was both fabulous and terrible. Fabulous because we’re back in the mountains! Terrible because not everyone was mentally/emotionally prepared for the challenge that faced us which made for a very long day of hiking. We woke up at 5 this morning, with the intention of being on the Mt. Elbert trail by 6. We […]
Read More PushToday we toured the “quieter side” of Mesa Verde. Our first hike was a tour of Mug House. Each year the park designates a few of the 900+ alcove sites for a special tour. This helps to preserve them by limiting the number of people who enter them. This year it was Mug House’s turn. […]
Read More Good VibrationsToday was another day at Mesa Verde. We did two cliff dwellings. The first one we did was Mug House. At Mug House we got to go inside of the rooms. Unlike the other tours there were only 10 people on this one usually there are 50. The next house we did was Step House. […]
Read More The 18th DayWe woke up alone in the middle of the desert today. I don’t think it was the best night of sleep for any of us. For me the main reason was the moon. Since we were all alone in the campground and it was still really hot when we set up camp we decided to […]
Read More All Along the WatchtowerWe 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 DayFor 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 DayOddly, 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. […]
Read More Walking On Sunshine