Utah 2005

[askus3]

I have procrastinated and delayed this project of organizing and labelling all my trip photos but finally have it completed. Last year I took a trip with my daughter (age 23) on a quick 5 day National Park extravaganza in Utah hiking 50 miles and touring, sightseeing and racking up driving mileage. The weather was picture perfect. The trip was very successful and we had a good time bonding. The scenery was spectacular. Here is a link to my first album - Arches National Park. From there you can check out the other four albums of our trip. Also, thanks to the various suggestions that helped formulate this trip on a thread I started last summer.

 

[audrey]

Aaron,

Thank you! This is a nice postscript to my own Utah trip last week. Since I'm planning on Capitol Reef and Escalante next year, I enjoyed the photos with much anticipation.

 

[roadtripper]

Absolutely fantastic pictures! I'm heading to Utah in two weeks and I'm going to visit many of the same places you and your daughter visited. It's awesome to see what I have to look forward to.

Thanks for posting!

- greg

 

[askus3]

If you can find the time to go 75 miles more east from Capitol Reef. A visit to the Little Wildhorse Canyon is really worthwhile. It makes a great 8.6 mile loop hike with minimal elevation gain. Also, make a quick 1/2 hour stop at Goblin Valley State Park on the way to the slots. See Utah album 3 - Bell & Little Wild Horse Canyons was the surprise hike of the trip. I enjoyed this hike better than The Narrows in Zion which I thought was quite impressive but wet where these canyons when I visited were dry. Also, it was different from all the other hiking as you get a good feel for hiking through an incredibly narrow slot canyon. And if you continue onward to Moab then you really missed a fantastic hike rushing from one park to the other as this hike is only 24 miles round trip off the main travel route UT 24. Also, being on a dirt road (easily navigable with a sedan - better than the Baxter Perimeter Road) 5 miles in from Goblin Valley, you don't get nearly the traffic or visitation that most of the other hikes receive. We saw maybe a dozen folks on that hike on a Friday. Compared to maybe a couple of hundred on the Navajo/Peek-a-Boo/Queens Garden Loop in Bryce on Sunday of Columbus Day or our Delicate Arch hike in Arches at sunset.