Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Ain’t about how fast I get thereAin’t about what’s waiting on the other sideIt’s the climb -Miley Cyrus We finally hit a legit trail today! After 5 days of awesomness I feel like for the first time this trip we did what we set out to do. Last night at dinner we asked Ranger Mike […]
Read More The ClimbHere 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 Out“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)“dam . . . Otter Creek / and all the water backed up” – Live Today may go down as the best dam day of the entire trip. Although that isn’t saying a lot because I think it might be the only dam day. Last night we decided to use today mostly for recovery from […]
Read More … Dam … Otter Creek“There’s magic in 3/4 time, pace yourself and you’ll be fine. Slow and steady wins the race, it puts a smile there on her face.” – Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers Today we got to return to Bryce Canyon National Park, the park that made me first fall in love with the West. […]
Read More Women Like to Slow Dance“I have got to find the river Bergamot and Vetiver Run through my head and fall away Leave the road and memorize This life that pass before my eyes” – REM We decided to throw out the plan for today. Last time we were at Zion we hiked The Narrows of the Virgin River and […]
Read More Find The River“Take another road to a hiding place / Disappear without a trace / Take another road in another time” – Jimmy Buffett Although today was mostly a driving day, it had a memorable ending at Zion NP that makes it deserving of higher than the 3.5 mountains it earned in our road trip journal. We […]
Read More Take Another Road