Moab Trip

Our trip to Moab was awesome! It was fun to get away in the great outdoors with good friends. We went with the Averetts (Andrew, Jessica, and Cameron), and Jessica's younger brother and met up with Andrew's dad in Moab. The weather couldn't have been more perfect! Chris (mostly) enjoyed his dirt biking adventures which is a whole other post. And I'm letting him take care of that one. He did write about it on some Adventure Rider website so if you want to know every single detail of it and see lots of pictures, you can check out this site:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9858037&posted=1#post9858037. Or if not, you can just check back here one of these days.

We got a kind of late start and ended up getting to our campsite outside of Fruita, CO at about 11pm if I remember correct. Chris was supposed to have already picked out a campsite but due to his (mis)adventures and being stuck for a total of about three hours, we were left to find a spot in the dark, which ended up being super easy. Chris arrived about 45 minutes later.

We got a VERY early start (for me at least, thanks to a super excited two year old ;-) ) and headed to Moab. We found a neat spot near a little river where you could've chosen to cliff jump but we just waded and played in the river. It would've been nice to know about this when we needed a little cool down/rinse off during our Moab mountain biking days. We ate lunch at a nice park while waiting for Chris and then checked out Gemini Bridges.  

We then did some light hiking/walking and admired Utah's desert beauty overlooking Canyonlands and Dead Horse Point.  

Jessica, Cameron, and I at Dead Horse Point

We found another campsite near Canyonlands and cooked a yummy dinner of spaghetti, Chris' favorite.

This was a few minutes from our campsite.  That's me on the edge of the cliff.

The next day was the most fun! We went to Arches National Park and hiked in the Fiery Furnace. Usually you need a guide to go there but Andrew and his dad had been there several times and were able to be our guides. It was really fun and beautiful!

Andrew, Jessica, and Cameron

After that we cooled down with about a six mile float trip. Having a two year old and two pregnant girls, we didn't do any major rapids, but it was so much fun to be rafting again! I was in great hands since the other three adults in the raft (Chris wasn't able to come with us) have all been or are raft guides. (That used to be one of my dream jobs.)

Then we drove five hours back home. It was an awesome trip!