Saturday, March 26, 2011

Spring Break: The Boring Recap Post



Aaron's spring break at the U came like a month earlier than the one at my high school, so I decided to take a couple of personal days and join him. I couldn't be happier about it. It's so refreshing to get out and a change of scenery. Here's a quick recap with some of the boring, traditionally touristy pictures!

The Grand Canyon:








The Grand Canyon Hotel:






Cliff Dwellers on the way back to St. George:





Zion National Park (solely scenery):








Kolob Canyon:



The hikes were gorgeous, the views incredible. Most of the time my jaw hurt from staring openmouthed at the intimidating scenery. Tiny blog pictures do a severe injustice. I highly recommend a spring trip to national parks!

Spring Break: The Pictures that Present our Personality Post


Pictures of me throwing my arms out in the "ROY!! INVINCIBLE!!!!!" pose:






Pictures of Aaron "interacting with the environment:"













Us desecrating and climbing all over stuff ancient Fremont Indians created:






Pictures that showcase us as x-treme, hard-core hikers:

This is looking down from the rim.


Next time, we're going by mule.


The view from Cedar Ridge

Climbing back up was the worst!

Weeping Rock at Zion National Park - bending with the wind


We thought we were cool for making it to Weeping rock, so we continued on the river path toward the Narrows. It was snowing.






The clay-mud behind the waterfall was simultaneously sticky and slippery.



And the only way to get it off our shoes was to walk in the newly fallen wet snow.
I caught the waterfall.
Can't get cooler than that.





See? More snow!

Proof we made it to the top waterfall!


As you can tell from the extreme weather conditions, the intensity of the hikes, and the general backcountry look... We are two very hard core hikers.

But we decided to prove it again the next day at Kolob Canyon. Actually, when we arrived, we weren't allowed up the canyon because of snow. But as we mulled around the visitor's center, the ranger suddenly got a phone call and down came the plow. We booked it and were the very first ones up the newly cleaned canyon so we could be the first ones....

...hiking in 6 inches of freshly fallen snow!


We were not prepared with boots or anything, so Aaron's feet got the most wet while I walked in his footsteps.




But we were rewarded gorgeously.


Proof we made it back down in one piece! We seriously are rock awesome hikers!