The next morning, we had only one goal- to tackle Keyhole Canyon on our own. We secured a permit at the visitor’s center and then headed up to the trailhead. Since we were solo canyoneering for the first time, I was a tiny bit nervous, but another couple was heading in just in front of […]
The drive from Salt Lake City to Southern Utah is the best this time of year. The fields and hills are still green before returning to their usual golden brown, and the temperatures are quite pleasant. In some of our last available weeks before the intense summer heat hits down South, we spent the weekend […]
It was a very long night back at camp with wind rusting our rain fly and my terrible cough that I’ve been fighting for weeks. I felt like I hadn’t slept a wink when we heard Ben’s parents break camp at 6 AM and head home. Left on our own, Ben and I debated quite […]
Back at camp, we got the tents set up and after a fair bit of discussion, mustered up some pretty basic dinner before we got right back on the shuttle. We’d been told that the canyon had some of the best stars anywhere since there is no light pollution. We were the only people on the […]
Since Bree hadn’t ever seen a lot of the main attractions at Zion National Park, our shuttle ride down the canyon included a stop at Weeping Rock. Weeping Rock has a notoriously short walk to the rock ledge which drips a continuous flow of water from the rock. The rock is fine for a visit, […]
In an effort to cheat the cold weather which is looming ever more ominously as we near the end of fall, Bree and I have made it a tradition to take a camping trip in Southern Utah toward the end of the season. This year, we decided to take a weekend at Zion National Park […]