Well, I definitely have a story to report. Got a helicopter ride for the first time ever. Also, first time I’ve been a member of a rescue-d party rather than the rescue-ing party. Pretty good story, actually. Short version We went canyoneering, Emma broke her foot, we effected a high-angle
I left the family at home to meet up with friends in Utah for some adults-only canyoneering. We had a mix of beginners and experienced types. We drove up Friday, did one canyon each Saturday through Tuesday, then drove back on a Wednesday. For the first two days we had
Last week (June 10, 2021), we drove to Utah to float the Green River that runs through Canyonlands National Park, and eventually meets up with the Colorado River. We met up with some old friends from San Francisco – Scott and Kristen – who we haven’t seen in ten years.
Karen held down the fort while I ran away to Utah to hang out with friends for a classic canyoneering trip. We’ve done it with the kids also, but it was nice to have an adults trip. Jon and I were trying to count how many canyons we’ve done to
This past May we drove to Utah to meet up with Jon and Sarah and their 6-month old, Mason, for his first ever camping trip. It ended up being a lazy car camping trip, without any of the usual canyoneering adventures. The Holmes’s hit up Muley point again on the
We made it back to Utah again this season! And we convinced another boy family to join us! (heh heh heh) Not sure that they really knew what they were signing up for… But all’s well that end’s well, and this was a spectacularly successful trip. Between the four of
On our recent Utah roadtrip, we took the boys up a portion of three separate slot canyons: Fry (Frylette), Leprechaun, and Little Wild Horse. (I’m just getting around to putting up some details about the activities from that trip). The boys were ecstatic about the actual canyon bits, and grumbly
Here I am in 2022, adding content for this trip from 2016. I recall being happy to hang out with adults, and also forgetting how to have an adult conversation. Karen stayed home with Bodie (5) and Jasper(3) and I joined new and old friends for a few days of