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Today we did the cathedral valley drive in capitol reef.
The first part of the drive you ford a fucking river. We get to the river. And it’s a drop off. And the river is moving!! But it’s only about a foot tall. And you just go down a little and then back to shore. But man it was so spooky!! Truck month!!!!
We drove through some really cool geology and did some hikes to a view of the temple of the sun and moon. And we did a hike through the cathedral too. There was a thing called glass mountain that was an entire hill made of selenite (moonstone) which is really cool! The formations were just really cool. We got out around the golden hour and missed sunset at the sunset point. But we still had light and got some nice shots. All in all we did like 7 miles of hiking.
Tomorrow we leave. Which is sad! capitol reef is cooler than we thought it was gonna be and there’s a bunch of things I wish we could check out. Oh well. One lifetime isn’t enough to see it all anyway.
Tomorrow we’re being ambitious. If all goes according to plan we’ll check out chimney rock and these big trees, do a geology talk, and do hickmans natural bridge hike which is 2 miles. Hopefully get out of here by 11 or 12 and drive 3 hours and do a 4 mile hike to a hot spring. Enjoy the hot spring but get out of there before the sun sets (which is like 530. Ugh) and then make it to slc.
I reallllly doubt we can do this all. But I guess you’ll find out tomorrow.
The day after tomorrow we fly back home. I’m not necessarily ready for vacation to be over!! Oh well I guess. I took Monday off from work which was smart.
Oh and we saw a kangaroo mouse during the sunset. And it kept popping up and oh my god it is so cute I am literally dead.
Welp. Ttyl!
The first part of the drive you ford a fucking river. We get to the river. And it’s a drop off. And the river is moving!! But it’s only about a foot tall. And you just go down a little and then back to shore. But man it was so spooky!! Truck month!!!!
We drove through some really cool geology and did some hikes to a view of the temple of the sun and moon. And we did a hike through the cathedral too. There was a thing called glass mountain that was an entire hill made of selenite (moonstone) which is really cool! The formations were just really cool. We got out around the golden hour and missed sunset at the sunset point. But we still had light and got some nice shots. All in all we did like 7 miles of hiking.
Tomorrow we leave. Which is sad! capitol reef is cooler than we thought it was gonna be and there’s a bunch of things I wish we could check out. Oh well. One lifetime isn’t enough to see it all anyway.
Tomorrow we’re being ambitious. If all goes according to plan we’ll check out chimney rock and these big trees, do a geology talk, and do hickmans natural bridge hike which is 2 miles. Hopefully get out of here by 11 or 12 and drive 3 hours and do a 4 mile hike to a hot spring. Enjoy the hot spring but get out of there before the sun sets (which is like 530. Ugh) and then make it to slc.
I reallllly doubt we can do this all. But I guess you’ll find out tomorrow.
The day after tomorrow we fly back home. I’m not necessarily ready for vacation to be over!! Oh well I guess. I took Monday off from work which was smart.
Oh and we saw a kangaroo mouse during the sunset. And it kept popping up and oh my god it is so cute I am literally dead.
Welp. Ttyl!
