So recently, my friend Mo drove from Dallas all the way to Moab, Utah. I've known him for about two years now and he wanted to spend his Spring Break up here, taking in the sites. We've been on a lot of adventures so far, but the biggest journey we've embarked on was the Island in the Sky portion of the Canyonlands National Park.
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| Breakfast of champions... |
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| Complete with a juice box! |
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We started out eating a
VERY nutritional breakfast...
(...at McDonald's)
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| We stopped at a gas station and hit the road! |
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The were several ruin-looking sites at the gas station. I'm not sure how many of them are actually authentic, but there were these tepees, as well as these:
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Once we got there, we made several stops. At some of the stops, we just looked around, at others we hiked. From the first turn off we made, there were some AWESOME views. Mo kept saying he was concerned that I was getting too close to the edge, but after having worked at a guide for a while, my fear of heights has lessened incredibly.
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| Climbing up |
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| On the edge of a cliff |
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| Scaling some rocks | | | |
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We also saw lots of ancient cave dwellings. I was more used to the Anasazi and Moki dwellings, but while we were at Island in the Sky, we saw some old Aztec dwellings and ruins.
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| Ruin at Aztec Butte |
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We also saw some really awesome land features that had been formed through weathering of wind and rain.
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| Weathering of the rocks | | | | | |
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As our journey ended, we looked at one last place called the Grand View Point...
...and on the drive back, we watched the sun set.
All in all, it was an awesome, productive day full of beautiful views and good company. It was really nice to get some hiking in on my off shift, especially in such gorgeous country. I think the best part of it was being able to show a fellow flat-lander around some parts of the country that are most certainly not flat.
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