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Sooo Thats it....2 days drive and we are at Carlsbad Caverns, today is Tuesday (I think) we arrived Saturday to brilliant sun and overwhelming heat...folowing morning the sun had dissapeared. That day we did the Carlsbad Caverns...they are mostly 800 feet below ground, the walk down was steep, we chose the walk in rather than the elevator but had to take it up...the caverns are really huge with a central point with a cafeteria and of course "t" shirt stall....of the 3 caverns we walked through o… Continue

Alright!!! 2nd day here at the South rim....nothing out of the ordinary happened on the drive here...we did stop at a Canyon overview with Indian Souvenears stands, the check in time being 4pm at this camp ground slowed us down a bit...Thursday (yesterday) we just walked around to gain bearings and did some of the rim trail stopping every now and then to simply take in some awesome views of the Canyon below....Today 8/29/08 we hiked down the canyon to Ceder ridge...about a 3 mile round trip..tak… Continue

So where are the Mountees hu??? Rose and I got back from four and a half miles into the Gran Canyon North rim just fine thanks....not that anyone was caring I'm sure...lol Wow what an awesome day that was, what an awesome climb ....we actually got to Roaring Springs Falls in two and a half hours, oh did I neglect to say that it was down hill all the way...and what goes down has to come up....I think we started back at say 12.30 pm and arrived back at the top at 6.30pm...and oh boy were we hurtin… Continue

Ok so here we are at The Grand Canyon, the North side..idea is to have 7 nights here then 5 nights at Lake Powell (yes!!!! Jet sking fun again)(yipeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!) then about 7 nights at the South Grand Canyon...firstly I guess need to blog the last day in Zion...there were trails everywhere and 3 in the very Strenuous bracket...one being called "Angels Landing" which is the hike we chose as the climax for Zion...booked as a hard climb of 1,500 ft from the bottom of the canyon to the very top… Continue

Right....well here we are in ZION!!!! Yes we made it....the last day in Bryce we did the Fairy tale loop, a mind blowing, strenuous trail, the reason being to see the famous Tower Bridge Arch, which actually really did look like the Tower Bridge over the Thames in London uk...this trail was an 8 mile loop...however the last 3 miles we had a lightning storm and I can tell you being on a trail that takes you over narrow high edge paths, slippery sand covered boulders and steep inclines and decents… Continue