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Lots of exploring, very little cell service!

We are sitting overlooking Lake Powell and Page, AZ as this is the only place we both have enough cell service to update the website!  We have been at Wahweap Campground on Lake Powell since Monday.We have continued to enjoy 4WD dirt roads of Paria Canyon where the colors were amazing and the Vermillion Cliffs area.  We also did a day trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and Lees Ferry; both very nostalgic from when we hiked rim-to-rim in 2016 and when we rafted the Colorado 267+ miles through the Grand Canyon in 2014.  While there we…

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Bryce Canyon Hike

Bryce Canyon National Park never disappoints!  Five years ago we visited Bryce and experienced the Canyon via horseback.  This visit, we experienced the canyon on foot; WOW!  Walking in the canyon among the hoodoos and colors is simply spectacular. The featured picture is near the end of the hike on the Navajo Loop and from the bottom looking up it was a CRAZY sight and a CRAZY climb!  Every turn in this canyon is like a fantasy land with tunnels, tight walls, beautiful shapes. The Queen’s Garden trail begins at the rim and descends about 320’ to the famous Queen…

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Capitol Reef National Park

It has been a busy and beautiful couple of days!  On Tuesday 9/22 we left Green River State Park and drove to Hanksville UT and stayed at Duke's Slickrock RV Park that was centered between Capitol Reef NP and Goblins Valley State Park.  Capitol Reef - This park is the least visited of the 5 Utah national parks.  There is no lodge and very few hotels in the area. Capitol Reef became a national monument in 1937 and a national park in 1971.  The populated area of the park is named Fruita Historic District and includes the Petroglyph Panel, Visitor Center…

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Arches, Canyonlands, Dead Horse Point

The beauty of the last few days is unimaginable.  We have made a base at Green River State Park.  Thursday we spent at Arches NP, Canyonlands NP and Dead Horse Point SP.  Arches is amazing and photos just can’t capture the vast size and colors of the landscape!  We had high hopes to hike to “Delicate  Arch” but it was so crowded, COVID-19 precaution won and we passed.  Many of the Arches are named by the park service or others, but we created some pretty unique names “old lady in chaise lounge”, “turtles kissing” and some that I better not…

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