TR: 10 days, 4 corners, a Subway, and some bling
Moonrise over the Telluride Bluegrass Festival
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The San Juan Mountains on a hike to Bear Creek Falls
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Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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Goosenecks of the San Juan State Park, Utah
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Monument Valley, looking from Utah toward Arizona
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Buckskin Gulch
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Buckskin Gulch
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Buckskin Gulch
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Zion National Park, Wildcat Trailhead, heading for "The Subway"
We were lucky to get a permit on two days notice to do this
canyon. It's been on my list for a while, and certainly didn't
disappoint.
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Kelly on the hike in to the Subway
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More hiking to the Subway
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Finally down in the cool river, wetsuits & harnesses go on.
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The Subway is in mid-May conditions, lots of cold flowing water.
The expression on my face should say quite a bit, the water here is
about 40 degrees and 10+ feet deep.
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Kelly enjoying the sunny but cold water.
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Six hours into the hike, we arrive in the Subway
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Rap #4 takes us into an amazing area.
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More Subway stuff
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...and more great views
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7 hours in, we hit Red Falls, car to car it took over 10 hours.
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The next day we went to Keyhole Canyon in Zion National Park
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All of these pictures are inside Keyhole, a great place for some fun technical canyoneering.
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And, one last one...
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After four years of dating, I finally popped the question a few days before we left for this trip. Kelly thought I was going to propose while we were away, so I decided to surprise her and do it before we left, and it worked. :wink:
We've set a date for just under a year from now; June 11th, 2006 - here in SLC!
