Day 1 of our 2 day trip to Utah seemed to be a little bit of a fail for us. We got a late start which put us in the middle of the mass of people. It made the beauty of Zion not so beautiful as we fought for prime viewing spots with the hundreds of the people that were fighting for the same view. We are not used to planning our trips and going into Zion or any popular national park for that matter takes planning. You can’t just wing it if you want the most of your experience. You don’t have full access to the land like we are used too; there are shuttles, road closures, so many rules and masses of people trying to do the same thing you are.
Tag: Hiking
Bats, Dinosaurs, Wind and Morteros – Anza Borrego Desert State Park – April 2017
Exploring the mud caves at Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Click to read more…
Bringing New Eyes to Painted Canyon
It feels great to get back out hiking again. This last year has been full of surprises for me. I got a divorce, but in turn met the man of my dreams. We bought a house together in a whole new city and combined our families. We finally got settled into our new home after…
My First Trip to Idaho
I got a chance to visit Idaho just outside of Boise this month and was amazed by the beauty of our country. We hiked, fished, hunted and explored for 4 days and still weren’t able to do or see everything we wanted too. The time we spent in the backcountry took my breath away. Just this…
Ropes & Ladders @ Painted Canyon ~ October 2, 2016
Hiking the Ropes & Ladders @ Painted Canyon, Mecca Hills. Click to read more…
Eastern Sierra ~ September 17th & 18th
Hunting and hiking in the Eastern Sierra’s
Box Springs Mountain via Two Tree’s Trail ~ August 13, 2016
Hiking Box Springs Mountain in the middle of August will not be a cool hike even early in the morning.. Click to Read More…
Half of Castle Rock Trail, Big Bear ~ July 16, 2016
We headed up to Big Bear for a nice weekend away. We came up Friday and drove past the trailhead of Castle Rock on our way to our hotel. We had no plans for the weekend, we just figured we would play it by ear. We checked into our cute cottage of Cathy’s Cottages on the…
Big Horn Mine & Vincent’s Cabin ~ July 9, 2016
I got up to the trailhead about 8am. The parking lot wasn’t crowded yet but there was plenty of cars there starting off the morning early. The trailhead houses a few different trails, the most popular is the portion of the PCT going to the summit of Mt Baden Powell that my brother and I…
Duck Pass & Duck Lake, Mammoth CA ~ June 25th & 26th 2016
When we first started to plan this trip we were planning on going to Lake Dorothy above Convict Lake but at the last minute we changed our plans due to a message I got from a fellow Facebooker that the stream that we had to cross was now a raging river and completely impassable. So we made…