Moab

For fall break, we joined the Robertsons for yet another adventure. This time it was to the area commonly referred to as Moab. Surprisingly, neither Reesa nor I had been there before. Come to find that "Moab" is actually a town that is very near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. Its fame comes not only from being very close to 2/5 of Utah's national parks, but it's also a hub to many outdoorsy sport from climbing to mountain biking to rock crawling to hiking. A main motivation for the trip was Paul's involvement with UVU's Outdoor Adventure Center. They were on an outing for the break that included climbing on Saturday and Paul was partially in charge.

When we arrived in the Moab area, we turned off the highway onto a treacherous dirt road up and then into a remote canyon. After a bit of rock crawling in the Robertson's Subaru, we found a nice spot off the road to camp.

Our camp was near a couple gems. First was a little area called "The Crack House" named after a nice crack in the roof of an overhang. Both Paul and I had some fun bouldering while the girls watched and spotted for safety.

The second gem was Gemini Bridges. The initial plan was to repel off said bridges, but time did not allow (I think some in the company were actually grateful for that unfortunate scheduling issue).  We had fun looking into the abyss of the canyons dreaming of slack-lining from one edge to another (with harnesses of course).

The Robertsons provided a delicious tilapia and vegetable tin foil dinner for each of us. This was followed by some tea and hot cocoa.

In the morning we had a feast of a breakfast with oatmeal, eggs, and turkey bacon. Yosemite was a pretty happy camper during the trip.

Pretty much all of Saturday was spent climbing at this slab. There were some fun routes. It was also pretty close to some petroglyphs which I do a project about with my 4th grade students. Now I can say I've seen some in real life.