Hello all!Our second full day in Moab is all about hiking, and all about avoiding the blazing heat! Arches National Park opens at 7AM, so we dragged our tired bodies out of bed to get everything ready to go and hit the park on time! When you do your hike early, you can be 10 to 20 degrees cooler, and we were hitting our most strenuous trail yet. We have our water packs, and the lunches already made, and hit the trail pretty hard. The final destination is "Del...

Hello all! (late night draft 1) The first full day in Moab was an absolute blast! Let me first describe the town. This place is perfect for any adrenaline junkie, because everything is here. There are bikers, motorcycles, rafting, jeeps, 4X4 trucks and more hikers than you can imagine. Just about every car I see in town has a hitch, a roof rack full of gear, a bunch of bikes or whatever ready to go! It also seems most everyone I run into is in pretty good sh...

Today we left Hurricane, UT to move to our next "home base" in Moab. The plan was to head to Bryce Canyon National Park, and just do a "driving tour" since we did so much hiking the past two days. This was a great plan, however as we headed higher in elevation the temperature dropped 49 degrees! That would have been some seriously comfortable hiking, but you have to learn your lessons as you go. From Hurricane, it was about 100 miles or so to Bryce, a few hou...

Day two at Zion started with an amazing drive into the park, a little by mistake. We drove in and went past the 1 mile tunnel to see some amazing views and stunning scenery. It's not where we were planning on going, so we had to turn around that big SUV and get back down the mountain to the shuttle bus. We need to goto the "Narrows" We rented special water shoes, because this hike is going down a river canyon. You get the water socks and shoes and a hiking s...

We left Vegas this morning and headed into Utah! A few hours on the highway, and we were able to make it into the National Park. We got our National Park Pass and started to the hiking trails! We selected shuttle stop number five, which was where the Lodge is located, and also the Emerald Pool trail. There is a bit of a waterfall, and covered trails that was amazing to view. We saw Deer and even a lizard as we went through, and took our time due to the heat ...