My Mountain Trail

Carving a Slot Canyon

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Another picture from yesterday’s hike. We are very tired today. The snow, climbing, and 25 pound pack have taken their toll…

363/365 – The End of a Long Day

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

We hiked, climbed, and crawled through snow and ice for 7 hours today. Our destination was the Subway. We didn’t quite make it all the way because of the ice, cold, and time. We didn’t want to get caught in the canyon after dark. Fortunately we made back to the jeep just as the sun was setting on the cliffs.

Here’s a pic of the Subway area. The Subway was just a bit farther, and oh so far out of reach…

Yay! It Snowed!

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Today we visited Coral Pink Sand Dunes. Cookie was looking forward to fun in the sand, but she was good w/ snow too!

Over the years we have developed a strong affinity to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes area of Utah. Since it was reasonably dry in the lowlands of Zion, we figured that CPSD would be a fun place to visit and go for a run.

Well, sure it was fun, but not a great place to run. The snow was more than 18″ deep and there was no sand to be found.

We ended up heading back to Zion NP and hiking some canyons and slickrock. I took pictures of that too, but I couldn’t get my M3 to download. Guess I’ll have to develop that film after all.

Tomorrow we are off to the Subway. I hope it arrives on time!

Update: Here are some pics from the M3

361/365 – Snow Canyon

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

361/365 – Snow Canyon

Originally uploaded by panodanno

Lori took me on a fantastic hike near Snow Canyon today. Wow, what beauty!