Saint George--Oh Heavens!

On Monday I got a call from Uncle Henry and when he found out I was in St. George, he said, "I know you've probably already heard this from your father, but... be careful."

Haha, I don't even think Dad knew I was in St. George! But I was!

And although I have experienced every end of the spectrum of crazy trips, this one fit in a category of its own for three main reasons:
1. It was long! three whole days! That's longer than any adventure we've ever had
2. We did little to no planning
3. THERE WERE 15 STINKING PEOPLE ON THIS TRIP AND WE DIDN"T EVEN INVITE HALF OF THEM!

It was still joyous. I wish the panoramas would be their real size on blogger, but just know that I love my camera and it takes sweet pictures (even though the batteries do not last 3 months as promised. Alas)

Day 1: Pioneer Park




The Fat Man Squeeze (Definitely not the skinniest crevice I've ever been through, but with 15 people, but better believe there's at least 2 that have a struggle going through)

Top of the park


Snow Canyon: Lava Tubes

You can't tell from these pictures, but it was PITCH dark in these caves and we forgot our head lamps in the cars so it was so crazy! I have so many random pictures of nothing becuase we were using my flash as a light

White rocks (looks like melted chocolate squirted everywhere, doesn't it?)

Cinder Cone- It's a volcano!

We couldn't find the right trail on the way up and we hiked straight up this thing and it doesn't look that big but it was pretty steep and snowy, so it was crazy. But fun!


Saturday night half of us camped in some wilderness-wanna-be behind a spa resort haha and it rained all night. There were 6 of us in one tent and we then 7 of us had to cram ourselves and our stuff in Kat's car to get out of the campground before Kim could come and save us. HOly muddy camp clean-up. Most of us stayed relatively warm and dry, though, so that was good.

Day 2: Sunday we went to churh (we doubled their singles ward), sang at a senior center, and watched The Ultimate Gift.(watch it! it is great!)

Luckily Sunday night one of Kim's roommates (who lives in a MANSION overlooking St. George) let us stay in her basement so we didn't have to sleep in our wet camping stuff again.




Day 3: ZION'S!!!!


We went and did Angel's Landing, which was PHENOMENONAL!


Those are straight up the mountain switchbacks. Yeah, I can handle switchbacks, but cover them in ice and pack a few inches of slick snow over them, and they got a little tricky. We made it ok though, and the top blew our minds!!!


And we were ON TOP OF THE WORLD!


But then, guess what? that wasn't even the top! When we got to the point when I thought we could go no higher, Kim pointed out that we were still going to some distant summit. Not to mention that was completely covered in snow and ice too. Good thing they have chains all along the trail!


Contrails for CJ


For some reason I couldn't get the rest of the pictures to load, but we were seriously the highest thing and it was insane. It was so pretty!

We ran down the mountain like hooligans and then drove on home to Provo. Crazy weekend! You better believe that with 15 people, at least 7 have phones with no battery and the other 8 don't have service and then every other second they switch. It was crazy but it was fun and now it is back to the real world. Don't worry, Uncle Henry, we were safe!