Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We had an unexpected rest day. Rain started falling near the end of our first planned hike. Fearing flash floods, we opted to spend the rest of the day reading in a coffee shop and then at the pool. I guess the rest was needed, I’m exhausted! The hike we did was out to Morning […]
Read More Day 26: Morning Glory Natural Bridge“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 […]
Read More So Are YouToday 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 […]
Read More Day 25: CanyonlandsToday 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 […]
Read More Day 25This 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 […]
Read More finishing canyonlands and moabNo, 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 […]
Read More Fettuccine AlfredoToday 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 […]
Read More Day 22We 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 […]
Read More Day 24: CanyonlandsToday started with another great sleep in and continued with holiday inn breakfast. We then headed up to the hotel room and packed up. We took our time as we were really in no rush today and after one final sweep through of the room we headed down to the car where we drove to […]
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