Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
there are two paths you can go by Led Zeppelin It turns out Moab is just a day trip from Mancos. The girls did it on spring break last year, but doing it today made it seem much more realistic. I thought we’d be home late, but we made it back in the late afternoon […]
Read More Stairway to Heaven“Won’t you meet me out tonight in Mancos” Stillhouse Junkies Apologies that it’s been so long since I’ve posted. We’ve had a whirlwind of a last few days. I’m not going to try to recap everything we’ve done in the past 3-4 days, but I will try to hit some highlights. Our good friends The […]
Read More (Mancos Kind of) Saturday NightHere comes the sun, and I say it’s alright -The Beatles I forgot to set an alarm last night, so it was a relief when Molly’s went off at 6 this morning. We were all a bit tired from last night still so it took us until 6:30 to actually get up and moving. We […]
Read More Here Comes the SunDrive in drive out I’m leavingDrive in drive outI’ll come back again Dave Matthews What a whirlwind trip to Colorado! We arrived Saturday and we’re gone by Monday. With the amount of snow the West has gotten this year it just didn’t make sense to spend any more time now as anything over 10,000 feet […]
Read More Drive In, Drive OutEpisode 16 of Ellie Elevates Your National Parks is now available on Google Play, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and many other podcast apps. Tune in to learn more about Arches National Park. You can also listen right here:
Read More Arches NP“What a field-day for the heat” – Buffalo Springfield Today I discovered my favorite part of Arches NP, the hike to Tower Arch. We hadn’t planned on hiking there at all, but I’m really glad we did. Last night Ranger Mike suggested we climb/hike a route used by repelers with views over the southern parts […]
Read More For What It Is Worth“There must be some kind of way outta here” – Jimi Hendrix Today we hiked the Fiery Furnace at Arches NP all on our own! We arrived at the trail head a bit after eight, geared up and began descending to hike in the recommended counter-clockwise direction. One of the benefits of hiking on our […]
Read More All Along the Watchtower“Then how come all the other Unicorns are dead?” – The Unicorns Day 31, and we finally made it to Arches! While Ellie was unquestionably the most excited I think we were all looking forward to today. We got to the visitor’s center just after it opened and picked up our ticket for the Firey […]
Read More I Was Born (A Unicorn)Oddly, 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 RiverToday got off to a fabulous start and has just stayed on that track. Shortly after waking up I got a Taco Cat T-shirt for Father’s Day! After just a few more minutes I got a nice breakfast on the patio of the hotel. Then we only had to drive 10 minutes rather than the […]
Read More Piece of My Heart