Zion's Trip

If you haven't heard the story about our Zion's trip, well, it's a good one. But more fun for us to tell in person when we are interrupting each other to add little here-and-there details, so call or come over and we'll tell all. But here are the pictures! Well, before it got dark anyway...

"Daddy, I want a squirrel."

We saved this little guy that had been washed down by the flash floods earlier that week.

We named him Newt. He is a salamander.

Right after we got into the second canyon. Absolutely beautiful.

Trevor and Whitney after we got out of the Narrows. They have the picture of Sean and me. Go figure. 

So basically, Sean and I wanted to hike the Narrows, and we invited Trevor and Whitney along. They had done these really cool rappels before so we figured hey why not? and decided to do that. We got a later start than we wanted but figured we'd be okay. The rappels took a few hours but we had to set our own anchors which took up time. The pictures above are mostly from the rappels. The rappels were in Birch Hollow Canyon. That met up with Orderville Canyon after the rappels, which pictures start right after the salamander we saved. Orderville is 7 miles long, and it was complete mud. Each step took twice as long because of the weight of the mud and rocks on the bottom of our shoes. The sun set towards the end of our time in Orderville which got kinda really scary. We had 1 headlamp for the 4 of us because we were supposed to be done hiking. Anyway, we finally met up with the Narrows and had a mile and a half left, most of which was in knee deep water. And it was dark. We finally got out of the Narrows at 11:30, walked the mile path to the shuttle station (which we had completely missed) so we ended up spending the night on the floor of the mens bathroom because it was cleaner than the girls. The shuttle came at 6:30 the next morning and was an extremely welcome site for us tired, cold, blistered hikers. It was quite an adventure! What we saw when it was light out was absolutely beautiful, the rappels were super fun, and we had a good time telling the "how we met/started dating" stories back and forth. I think I even want to do it again next summer, but get there at like 7am to start.