2020 has been a crazy year and we needed a proper send off. Not too far from home is a weird and other-worldly place that is filled with pure magic. The only way to really describe it is… like being on another planet? There are so many strange looking rocks …
I’m trying to see the silver lining right now with the mass hysteria surrounding COVID-19. Kids are homeschoolin’, work is crazy, and being so far away from my friends and family in PA has me stressed. Thank goodness for outdoor therapy. It’s a real thing, y’all! Over the weekend we …
My hikes are generally 1) hard 2) involving rock art 3) fun Today’s adventure had all of those requirements in spades. I knew we’d have some climbing to get to our reward (the rock art!) but I didn’t know that we’d also have a special treat waiting for us. California …
A couple years ago, President Obama designated Gold Butte as a National Monument. This special place has been one of my top all favorite areas in the entire USA. It’s so completely awesome. For one, it’s so remote that you can pretty much guarantee you won’t see many people (we …
Twinsies It’s winter break! Yay! That means, despite the horrid, cold weather… I will entice my children to do fun and amazing outdoor things. 🙂 We recently went back to visit The Davinci Man petroglyph panel. This freakin awesome rock art is found just south of St. George, UT. It’s …
One of the most impressive pictograph panels in southern Utah December 28 in Kanab. What a frosty day! Kanab proper was melted — and Paul (my running bff ALSO IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY) was the selector of today’s adventure. He decided we should head North a couple miles to run …
Starlight Cave in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is a place I’ve been plotting to go to since I moved to Utah nearly 15 years ago. Steve and I tried (once upon a time) to find the cave (filled with really old and amazing pictographs) but with little …
Mother’s Day is my favorite day. I love seeing my little boys grow up into sturdy, adventurous big boys. I am so lucky that they share my love of exploring (MOST TIMES). Today I got to choose the adventure — and I had read about Weaver’s Cave a while back …
Another day, another glyph. “Encouraged” the kids to help me find this one. We hiked way up to the top of a mesa overlooking Kanab Creek to the west. And we had success 🙂
Human centipede weirdness Finding new rock art sites makes me happy. Today my friend Jen (who’s just as obsessed w/ rock art — maybe more — than me) said she knew of a place that had some amazing panels and thought we could easily hike to them in a winter’s …