We have some friends that wanted to do a road trip down to Zion National Park to hike the narrows. We loved the idea and got really excited about it, and then our friends ended up not being able to go, so we turned it into kind of a crazy hiking and biking adventure, that my body was not entirely prepared for but it was still awesome.
We left Wednesday night and drove all the way to St. George and stayed at my grandparent's condo. We left super late so we got to St. George super late, so we woke up really late the next day. It ended up working out really well though because we had decided to hike the narrows that day. For those of you that don't know too much about Zion National Park, the "narrows" is a narrow canyon that the Virgin River flows through that you hike through. There are many different hikes you can take. Some can get really technical and crazy and it takes more than one day so you have to pack camping gear with you. We did the "easiest" one where you hike up the river for a few miles then back. I didn't think it was going to be too bad. It was only going to be about 5 miles round trip. I didn't take into account that you are walking knee to thigh deep water upstream. Let's just say it worked muscle groups that I hadn't worked in a while. Which made me super sore for the rest of the trip :)
On our way out of the narrows we could hear TONS of frogs croaking :)
The next day we went mountain biking. Ben was SO happy. He loves mountain biking so much. When he was a kid, he would go on bike trips to Southern Utah all the time. One of his favorite places is Gooseberry Mesa right outside of Zion National Park. We just did a simple trail called the Gem Trail, since I'm a beginner (and probably will always be...). We went with Ben's brother Adam's brother-in-law Wade and his son and Wade's brother-in-law Mike. It was a lot of fun. There were only scary down hills at the beginning that Ben loved flying down. The majority of the trail was just fun ups-and-downs. The end was my favorite part. We rode along side the dried up ravine, and all the colors were just so pretty!
We got back to the condo, cleaned up, and went to the St. George temple!
The next day we finished off our trip with going back to Zion National Park and hiking Angels Landing! We also saw the weeping rock and then rode the shuttle up the canyon and then rode our bikes down.
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| Beautiful Sunrise! |
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| The top of Angel's Landing |
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| Weeping Rock |
It was such a fun weekend. I love that Ben and I both enjoy doing so many things together, especially outdoors!
We left Wednesday night and drove all the way to St. George and stayed at my grandparent's condo. We left super late so we got to St. George super late, so we woke up really late the next day. It ended up working out really well though because we had decided to hike the narrows that day. For those of you that don't know too much about Zion National Park, the "narrows" is a narrow canyon that the Virgin River flows through that you hike through. There are many different hikes you can take. Some can get really technical and crazy and it takes more than one day so you have to pack camping gear with you. We did the "easiest" one where you hike up the river for a few miles then back. I didn't think it was going to be too bad. It was only going to be about 5 miles round trip. I didn't take into account that you are walking knee to thigh deep water upstream. Let's just say it worked muscle groups that I hadn't worked in a while. Which made me super sore for the rest of the trip :)
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