This area of Utah is absolutely beautiful. I woke up to the sound of jeeps 4x4ing. It's Saturday, and everyone is up here for the Long Weekend.. drinking, jeeping, biking, drinking, jeeping.... biking.
Once again, my body told me to DRINK A FUCK LOAD OF WATER NOW. So, I listened and did. I hurt this am, it hurts to sit up. My ribs are defiantly bruised. My other wounds are feeling ok. When I laugh or sneeze, it's a little painful.
We planned to meet up with my friends Andy and Rhiane this morning at 8am. We quickly zipped down to the car wash first, seeing as the truck is completely covered with sand, dust, grim and …. My toothpaste spit. Why? Well, about 4 days ago I was brushing my teeth inside the truck while we were driving and I thought I could spit out the window without it splattering across the side of the truck. I was wrong. Yup.
It was SO great to see Andy and Rhi. I hadn’t seen them since my travels in 2010 to the UK. With big smiles and loving hugs we reunited and quickly shared updates.
We planned to camp together at Slickrock, so we needed to get some supplies. Food, water, booze, and coffee. After a quick stop at the CityMart grocery store, we drive up to our campsite and Andy and Rhi set up camp. We made breakfast and planned to head to Arches National Park for a day of sight seeing and walks.
Arches National Park is stunning…. I mean, if you don't think so, something is wrong with you. There are incredible formations of sandstone, and it makes me wonder how the hell some of them are still standing. Weathered and cartoon like, these rock formations are something else. We spend a good time hiking around and taking lots of photographs of the area. Andy and Rhi had been here before, so they were able to tell us what was worth seeing. We came across some rock climbers on a pillar. It looked like a lot of fun. The climb was apparently a 5.8, totally doable! Unfortunately, we didn't have time and it was ridiculously hot.. and we wanted to ride bikes. :) We finished up the driving loop in the park, and headed back into town.
When we got back into town, we quickly checked out the Wall Street climbing area on Potash Road. Yes, yes yes! We need to hit this up tomorrow. So, we are going to. It looks awesome. Trad and Sport climbing on beautiful sandstone.
We made it back to camp, hungry, hot and sunburnt.
The night went a little like this: made dinner, drank cider, rode slick rock training loop, took lots of fun photos, had a fire, loads of laughter, sleep sleep sleep.
Once again, my body told me to DRINK A FUCK LOAD OF WATER NOW. So, I listened and did. I hurt this am, it hurts to sit up. My ribs are defiantly bruised. My other wounds are feeling ok. When I laugh or sneeze, it's a little painful.
We planned to meet up with my friends Andy and Rhiane this morning at 8am. We quickly zipped down to the car wash first, seeing as the truck is completely covered with sand, dust, grim and …. My toothpaste spit. Why? Well, about 4 days ago I was brushing my teeth inside the truck while we were driving and I thought I could spit out the window without it splattering across the side of the truck. I was wrong. Yup.
It was SO great to see Andy and Rhi. I hadn’t seen them since my travels in 2010 to the UK. With big smiles and loving hugs we reunited and quickly shared updates.
We planned to camp together at Slickrock, so we needed to get some supplies. Food, water, booze, and coffee. After a quick stop at the CityMart grocery store, we drive up to our campsite and Andy and Rhi set up camp. We made breakfast and planned to head to Arches National Park for a day of sight seeing and walks.
Arches National Park is stunning…. I mean, if you don't think so, something is wrong with you. There are incredible formations of sandstone, and it makes me wonder how the hell some of them are still standing. Weathered and cartoon like, these rock formations are something else. We spend a good time hiking around and taking lots of photographs of the area. Andy and Rhi had been here before, so they were able to tell us what was worth seeing. We came across some rock climbers on a pillar. It looked like a lot of fun. The climb was apparently a 5.8, totally doable! Unfortunately, we didn't have time and it was ridiculously hot.. and we wanted to ride bikes. :) We finished up the driving loop in the park, and headed back into town.
When we got back into town, we quickly checked out the Wall Street climbing area on Potash Road. Yes, yes yes! We need to hit this up tomorrow. So, we are going to. It looks awesome. Trad and Sport climbing on beautiful sandstone.
We made it back to camp, hungry, hot and sunburnt.
The night went a little like this: made dinner, drank cider, rode slick rock training loop, took lots of fun photos, had a fire, loads of laughter, sleep sleep sleep.
R&B
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