if we only did one thing at zion national park, we knew it was going to be the narrows trail. it’s basically a hike into a canyon, where there’s a river, which can vary in depth, width, and flow, but the hike is mostly in the water. since it’s october, the temps of the water […]
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bryce canyon hikes.queens garden, navajo, wall street.
i took two pretty epic hikes whilst visiting bryce canyon. on sunday, just after we arrived, the entire fam took a stroll along the queens garden trail and then connected to the wall street trail to make our way back out. the first bit is a nice, flat, paved walk along the rim. then, down […]
bryce canyon week.
our fourth national park in the mighty five of utah was bryce canyon. we had a week scheduled there, with the hopes of getting a first come first serve site in the park campground. a few days before we left, we were looking around our beloved campendium app and found a great boondocking spot in […]
capitol reef.cohab canyon.
our final hike at capitol reef was into cohab canyon. derek was interested in this one, so we waited for him to finish working one day, and hit the trail. (the whole east coast 9-5 schedule has it’s benefits out here, even if he doesn’t think so when he’s starting work at 7am). like the […]
capitol reef.fruita historic district.
after our LOOOONG stay in moab, we finally made our way to the next stop on our epic stretch through the utah national parks – capitol reef. we got in late friday night, so we had all day saturday to explore. we decided to check out the fruita historic district part of the park. back […]
arches national park.landscape and skyline arch
this past saturday (i’m catching up!!), the weather was fabulous and we made our triumphant return to devil’s garden in arches to hike out to the landscape arch. the previous weekends thunderstorm debacle was still fresh in everyone’s mind, and isaac informed me that he would not go if there was a single cloud in […]
last weekend’s attempts at adventure in moab.
taking things back to last weekend for this blog post. like 10 days ago or so. when derek finished up work on friday, we set out to find some adventure. he had it on good authority from a friend that an even more epic place to explore was on some blm land just north of […]
first two weeks of moab randomness.
its time for another round of “pictures i take when we aren’t on an adventure.” this post will cover our first two weeks in moab, dating back to our departure from salt lake city. at first, we planned to stay at a spot between SLC and moab, boondocking in the middle of nowhere, basically. the […]
arches national park.delicate arch hike
delicate arch is the most recognizable of all of the arches in arches national park. it’s on the utah license plate. it is in half of the logos of businesses in moab. we had already visited the viewpoint, but we were saving the hike to get up close and personal for a day when derek […]
goblin valley state park.
between salt lake city and moab, we found ourselves camping on a bit of BLM land mostly in the middle of nowhere. the closest thing for us to do (unless you count gas stations) was goblin valley state park. so, on sunday, we picked up subway lunches (from said gas station) and made our way […]