Once we’d had a nap, cooked some lunch, and spent a few hours recovering from the 12 or so miles of hiking we did in the morning, we headed over to Goblin Valley to see some hoodoos. I’m not altogether sure what we expected, but Goblin Valley didn’t disappoint.  Amazing stuff. Extra points because you […]

We spent the morning hiking a popular slot near Goblin Valley – Little Wild Horse Canyon.  It is a great little canyon as long as you get there before the crowds (of which on a UEA weekend there are many). The approach into the canyon is relatively short – just over 1/2 of a mile.  […]

This year was round 2 for Lotoja.  That means we had a plan – and no surprises.  Of course life doesn’t always work out as you plan. We began our ride at 5:50 AM.  That means we had to wake up in the 4:00 hour – an hour that does not deserve to exist.  It […]

All summer, I’ve basically had one goal: to ride 100 miles on my bike in the Cache Valley Century.  I was kind of nervous about the whole thing, especially after seeing how wrung out my dad and Ben were from the same ride last year, but we’d been riding quite a bit all summer so […]

This weekend we visited Kanarra Canyon, near Cedar City, Utah.  I would never have expected that canyon to be there – or any slot for that matter.  It was great though.  Relatively untechnical, though absolutely awesome water features.  It has waterfalls, sliding rocks, and fairly narrow slots.  Absolutely incredible.       The hike begins […]

Last Friday around noon, we headed down to Brian Head for the first ever Matheson family reunion.  We took off a little early so we could enjoy the evening on our mountain bikes. The weather was positively perfect.         Unfortunately, we quickly discovered we were in a little bit over our heads […]

If we’re not on the boat and we’re not at work, odds are good you’ll find us on some combination of the five bikes we keep around. Since Ben bought me my new mountain bike for Christmas, we’ve hit the trails a couple of times this year.  I still have a long ways to go, […]

In terms of number of water ski trips, this summer has been a success.   We spent a long weekend on Bear Lake and another couple of Saturdays on Echo Reservoir (our new local favorite) and we’ve had such a good time.   Ben has come to his own on a water ski this year which […]

Congrats to Ben on finishing his computer engineering degree last Friday. (He won’t tell you this, but he even made the deans list.) I’m so proud of him and so excited to have him home a little more often.  I love you Ben!

Recently we acquired this gem of a bike: And our evenings are now full of this: I live in the most beautiful place.  With the most wonderful husband.  I couldn’t be happier.

With my little brother as a member of the USA Luge Team, and most of my family having tried it at least once, we decided it was time for us to try out a Learn to Luge class.  As I imagined it, I was going to be really brave about the whole thing.  I mean […]

Since the only reason Bree and I are here is due to United Airline’s lack of ability to load all of their passengers on the correct airplane, we had to arrive in Florida two days before our cruise departs.  That said, we had to kill a little time. To do so we spent the night […]