Memorial Weekend

We drove to Koosharem and stayed at my Grandma Hatch's little cabin. It rained a lot on the way down and we woke up with some snow on the hills. All four of us slept in the back of the truck. Which was good because it was pretty cold. Toby had to sleep in the cab of the truck. Then we woke on Sat and drove to Capital Reef. You cant have dogs on any trails so we didn't do much hiking.


Tyler, Darren and Toby spent the other nights in the tent (Toby outside the tent) and Mom and Ella slept in the truck, That way mom didnt' wake anyone up in the night to feed Ella and Ella could cry all she wanted too and didn't bother anyone but me!!!

Ella spent alot of time in the front back strapped to mom. Wrapped up warm.. dont worry!
We went on a hike up a canyon called Little Wild Horse Canyon. Interputation= Little means long, Wild means Crazy to try it with two kids and a dog, Horse means we needed a horse to carry us all out and Canyon, well, that just means a really long hike that you cant get out of. This is what we learned on this adventure. You can look at the map, see it is "only" a nine mile hike and think, that is easy, no problem. But this was a slot canyon, with water to wade through, boulders to climb over and lift toby over, and hot sun to walk through. The nine miles took us just over 6 hours. Pathetic. So next time, we will scale our hiking ambitions down.
TYler was happy to get out of the pack the last mile and hike, and Darren was happy to have that 28 pounds off his back.

We also went to Goblin Valley and talked around exploring all the fun things. We had a great time, and hope that Darren will be less stressed now that his audit is over.