Alright, here are the promised pictures from trip to Southern Utah.......the first one at the end of March; I actually went again last weekend but that will come later:
When this picture was taken I had just finished a wall-melting guitar solo, sorry Bryce Canyon. Obviously the walls here are made of extremely soft stone so whenever it rains this happen:
Here is my traveling companion Esther Wooley, I met her the day we left for the south. She is really great and we had a lot of fun. She came over from Australia for General Conference and wanted to see some of the cool things in Utah before she left so naturally we went to south were it is warm right? wrong. The first night we camped we set up the tent in a blizzard and it was about 12 degrees F. I hate 12 degrees F. We tried to make tinfoil dinners but couldn't get a good fire going. The wind was blowing and our fingers were so cold that we couldn't work a lighter or strike a match. I also failed to bring the campfire's best friend (lighter fluid), but we finally got it started and made some pretty stellar camping grub.
One of the reasons I dig southern utah is for the diversity. One minute you are walking along in the dessert and you can turn a corner into the desert. Granted there is much more desert than anything else but facts are facts, this place is cool. I don't exactly know why these trees grow like this, and at the risk of repeating a the "refrigerator incident", I feel pretty safe in speculating that it has something to do with the wind
3 comments:
I hate 12 degrees F. too!
Molly, you took some great geology pictures there, but you forgot the rock hammer, for scale. We are going to have to do something about this, aren't we?
you're one tuff chick to be pulling an unca dale off in that type of weather. you go girl...dwq
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