ROAD TRIP 3

The next leg of our trip we drove through Bryce Canyon.

Then we headed to Dead Horse Point State Park for the night. Yes, the sunset was really that gorgeous (not edited). It was so clear out we were able to sleep without the rain fly on our tent and look at the stars all night. Perfect.

Playing a game of cards at our campsite. This is one of my favorite pictures. 

The next morning we headed to Canyonlands National Park for a couple hikes and some 'off road' driving (wish I had the video done of that drive ready) to Arches. 

We spent one night at Arches National Park. We had lots of time to hike all sorts of trails, take pictures and see the sunset. We spent the afternoon in town as they had all sorts of shops and some yummy food. It rained off and on throughout the day and we were able to see a beautiful double rainbow.  

Next stop, Colorado and no more camping for rest of the trip! By that time this girl had, had enough with the outdoors. After 4 days of hot weather, some rain and no shower all I could think about was getting to our hotel in Vail. 

Road Trip Continued

Well I left off last time with us hiking down into the Grand Canyon....

Words can truly not describe the beauty of this place. 

THE RIVER!!! A sign we were truly almost done!

Never have I ever been so happy to see a bridge. As you can see we were pretty happy to have made it to our campground and be eating food!

Do you see this evil little creature? They are not to be trusted and are ALL over the campground Once at our camp we emptied our packs of all food and put it in the the ammo can, as instructed. We left for awhile to sit in the nice cold river. When we came back this evil thing had chewed a hole in one of the pockets on my pack!! Ugh...it was small and we repaired it, but at the time I was not a happy camper.

Beautiful views and the river going through our campground. It was clear the first day and then it rained and turned red. 

.....I gave up on editing photos for awhile so this is what you get below

Black Bridge built in 1928. Suspended with 8 main 550ft long cables. They had to be carried down by men because they were too heavy for the mules. Oh. My.

You can take float trips through the bottom of the Grand Canyon

The hard working mules.

After 2 days we started our treck out at 3:30am.....it was dark, but we were able to beat the horrible heat (it was 80 when we left the bottom,but the top was 55). Unfortunately, about 1 1/2 hours from the top it started to rain. It wasn't fun to hike in, but the cool air felt lovely. 

Pure sweat, not even halfway done.

Oh, how we loved seeing the sunrise while we hiked up. Walking around different bends and seeing this just took my breath away. 

  

WE MADE IT!!!!

After hot showers, 2 hour nap and a hot meal we enjoyed sunset and one more look at this beautiful place. 

ZION NATIONAL PARK

Josh and I agree this was probably our favorite place. There was just something about it that we loved. We took a tour with one of the rangers, listened to the educational talks at night and took some fun hikes. One of which was Angles Landing (this was my favorite hike of all time) 2.4 mile strenuous hike, 1,488ft tall, with lots of steep switchbacks. The last half mile has chains to hold onto and steep drop offs, I loved it!

Packing up and headed to Dead Horse Point State Park.....