Blogs from Moab, Utah, United States, North America - page 17

Much to our surprise it was freezing cold last night !! I had to get up in the middle of the night and actually turn on the heat. I will never understand how it can be 101 degrees during the day and 35 degrees at night. We had picked up a huge homemade cinnamon roll at the Majestic View Lodge yesterday, so I heated it in the microwave and we shared it for breakfast. After our bellies were full, we headed down the road to Bryce Canyon and many other National and State Parks. As we entered Bryce, Tim immediately spotted a male pronghorn feeding in the open field. This started his day off great and he could only hope to see more wildlife as we ventured through the park. It was only a short distance ... read more

Some of you may have concluded, after reading our last brief blog, that we were starting to flag and that the excitement of the trip had worn off. Not at all! Infact, we had already been in the States for three weeks when we wrote it and New Zealand already seemed a long time ago. Also, we had 20 minutes to write the blog and attach photos before the library shut for lunch (Hot tip: if you want to use the internet in the USA, don't bother looking for an internet cafe as there aren't any...go to the nearest library and you get free access!) We arrived in San Francisco on 14 April, but having already been into Wellington and Auckland, going 'downtown' was not on the schedule. Instead we hoofed it down Highway 1 which ... read more

Indian Creek!! climbing red color sand stone. OW, SQ and more, I love it! finaIy did ''Vision Quest'' was wonderful, I enjoyed leading all pitches. 'North Face of Castlton tower'' was apex cold/windy and hard. but we made to top. yheah! I want to do Canyonland's towers next time.... read more

I am realizing a dream. We've made it to Moab and Sam and I have spent the last two days riding-Amasa Back and Slickrock. We camped there last night and will be spending Christmas eve and Christmas .We've loaded up on firewood, and will be barbequing steaks tonight for Christmas eve and will be making a mini turkey tomorrow-a far cry from our regular routine. The roadtrip so far has been a blast. The kids are real roadtrip material and so far no blood. We set off from Vernon on Monday, travelled 2 solid days through intermittent snowstorms. Stayed in Soap Lake Washington the first night, checked out Granger and hung out with the dinosaurs, and the absolute highlight was parking across from the Wal Mart in Salt Lake city in a Snowstorm-"the most snow that ... read more

We had another free day today although there didn’t seem to be much to do around Moab we weren’t going to waste our time. We woke up and got ready to go down to the mountain bike shop and go for a bike ride. Only Hannah, Min, Tina, Dave and I decided to go but the strange thing was that Jon said we were the first group he has had who have done the Moab bike ride. We walked down to the bike shop where they took our height and weight and adjusted the bikes to our individual build. We waited around while they adjusted our bikes in the workshop and soon enough they were ready to go. These bikes were high tech, really good quality mountain bikes which were worth around $1300 second hand. We ... read more