Spring Break is well over, but I figured it was time to blog about our great Spring Break adventure. We were invited by some friend to go down to Goblin Valley. We were way excited to get out of the cold weather and go have some fun camping. Goblin Valley has so many cool things to do and plenty of things just to have fun climbing on. We went down Monday afternoon and the weather was absolutely perfect. Well...sometime during the night the wind decided to start blowing. And it blew, and Blew and BLEW! Tuesday morning we perfected the art of cooking in the great outdoors with sand adding that special crunch to all of our food.
We actually ended up eating in the tent because the wind was so bad. Now a little wind was no excuse to not go hiking, so we packed all of our stuff up and head off for Little Wild Horse Canyon to go for a nice long hike. The weather was great. A little windy but nothing we couldn't handle. We had tons of fun hiking, but as the day progressed the wind blew a little more and a little more and then it started blowing a whole heck of a lot! I was sure glad it was warm outside because the wind didn't make it cold, it just made all the dust in the universe blow up into our faces. As miserable as a situation this may appear, it was so much fun! Chalk another one up in Julie's book of "
What makes me tough." With dirt and sand being blasted and plastered to our bodies we finished the hike and then had lunch in the car. We drove back to camp during a huge wind storm, it was incredible. Upon arriving at camp, we made the decision that we would not be considered wooses to pack up camp and stay in a motel. Our choices were stay in a motel, or sleep in a bed of sand and possibly risk the chance of being buried alive in sand. (When we got back to camp ALL of our stuff even the inside of our tent was completely covered in a good solid layer of red sand.) I think we set a world record for packing up camp in 15 minutes or less. We basically threw everything into bags and into cars and took off for Green River to see if there were any openings in any of the motels there. We were lucky and we were able to get a room.
Let me tell you, you don't appreciate the shower properly until you are plastered with sand and dirt for 10 hours or so. We cleaned up as much as possible and had a nice evening. We also hoped that Mr. Wind would go away so we could go enjoy Goblin Valley the next day. Well, he did, a little. Not really though. We went and played Kick the Can in the Goblins, which was tons of fun!!!! Then we went and hiked though Crack Canyon. Crack Canyon was amazing!
It was such a cool canyon to hike though. What could be more fun that lots of cool canyon walls to climb on, small canyons to squeeze though, and even a few rope climbs. Yup, it is one that I definitely want to do again sometime. By the time we got done though, the wind was kicking up again. We had planned to leave Thursday morning, but we decided to head back Wednesday night. I didn't feel bad about leaving, we had SOOO much fun. So take that Mr. Wind! You didn't spoil our fun! Though I hope next time we go Mr. Wind doesn't come on our vacation with us.
Spring Break is well over, but I figured it was time to blog about our great Spring Break adventure. We were invited by some friend to go down to Goblin Valley. We were way excited to get out of the cold weather and go have some fun camping. Goblin Valley has so many cool things to do and plenty of things just to have fun climbing on. We went down Monday afternoon and the weather was absolutely perfect. Well...sometime during the night the wind decided to start blowing. And it blew, and Blew and BLEW! Tuesday morning we perfected the art of cooking in the great outdoors with sand adding that special crunch to all of our food. 
We actually ended up eating in the tent because the wind was so bad. Now a little wind was no excuse to not go hiking, so we packed all of our stuff up and head off for Little Wild Horse Canyon to go for a nice long hike. The weather was great. A little windy but nothing we couldn't handle. We had tons of fun hiking, but as the day progressed the wind blew a little more and a little more and then it started blowing a whole heck of a lot! I was sure glad it was warm outside because the wind didn't make it cold, it just made all the dust in the universe blow up into our faces. As miserable as a situation this may appear, it was so much fun! Chalk another one up in Julie's book of "
What makes me tough." With dirt and sand being blasted and plastered to our bodies we finished the hike and then had lunch in the car. We drove back to camp during a huge wind storm, it was incredible. Upon arriving at camp, we made the decision that we would not be considered wooses to pack up camp and stay in a motel. Our choices were stay in a motel, or sleep in a bed of sand and possibly risk the chance of being buried alive in sand. (When we got back to camp ALL of our stuff even the inside of our tent was completely covered in a good solid layer of red sand.) I think we set a world record for packing up camp in 15 minutes or less. We basically threw everything into bags and into cars and took off for Green River to see if there were any openings in any of the motels there. We were lucky and we were able to get a room. 
Let me tell you, you don't appreciate the shower properly until you are plastered with sand and dirt for 10 hours or so. We cleaned up as much as possible and had a nice evening. We also hoped that Mr. Wind would go away so we could go enjoy Goblin Valley the next day. Well, he did, a little. Not really though. We went and played Kick the Can in the Goblins, which was tons of fun!!!! Then we went and hiked though Crack Canyon. Crack Canyon was amazing! 
It was such a cool canyon to hike though. What could be more fun that lots of cool canyon walls to climb on, small canyons to squeeze though, and even a few rope climbs. Yup, it is one that I definitely want to do again sometime. By the time we got done though, the wind was kicking up again. We had planned to leave Thursday morning, but we decided to head back Wednesday night. I didn't feel bad about leaving, we had SOOO much fun. So take that Mr. Wind! You didn't spoil our fun! Though I hope next time we go Mr. Wind doesn't come on our vacation with us.
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I'm glad you had such a good time. You are a real trooper!
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