Fitness

You may think that after all this hiking and nature and exercise, I would be getting in pretty good shape.

You'd be pretty wrong. This is what I look like after climbing a small mountain (more like a hill):


I hate you, lily, for taking this picture.

Miles: 2,900
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Location:E Center St,Cedar City,United States

Dirty

Well we made it to Bryce Canyon National Park, and you know what? We are FILTHY. haven't showered in four days. Have hiked and gotten super sweaty every day. Swam in a lake. Here look - this is a splash of mud that has been on my leg for literally three days:


We've* pretty much stopped changing clothes too. This evening, we even took pictures of each other's awesome gross hair. We are both developing dreds. Dreads? Hm.






*I use we there as the royal we - lily changes her clothes often, it's just me who doesn't. Heh.
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Location:N Camp Ground Rd,Tropic,United States

Neck Spring Trail

Sniff. We had to pack up our campsite today to hit the road again. We've really grown attached to our lil primitive site on the river these last two nights.

Anyway, onwards, to Canyonlands National Park! The great thing about the Utah NPs is that their names tell you everything you need to know about them. Guess what Arches NP has a lot of?

Yup:


And canyonlands has a lot of these:


Nailed it, God. (that's one of our inside jokes from the trip. Other things God has nailed include panda bears, the Rocky Mountains, and the Simon & Garfunkel song "Bridge Over Troubled Water," but He dropped the ball on polar bears).

Anyway. Good hike! Maybe the nest yet! About 6 miles of solitary desert hiking first through a canyon:


And then up along a ridge:


Good views, and that takes us through our third National Park of the trip, and third day of camping, and, most importantly, fourth day of not showering.

Miles: 2,500
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Location:BRYCE,United States

Hydration

After completing our first desert hike, we sure were thirsty - so we went to hydrate with some margaritas at a Mexican joint.


We continued our hydration tour with a stop off at the Moab Brewery - at which point there was a tsunami for about 20 minutes, which was odd, because we had just discussed how if it ever rained in the desert, it would probably be front page news (it is very dry there).

We returned to our campsite on re Colorado river with Moab Giant-Jug-of-Beer in tow.


We then broke park rules and took a dip in the Colorado. This was very refreshing and definitely made us much cleaner, if you define clean as "covered in mud." And we spent the rest of the day sunbathing, reading, drinking, and campfiring.

Not bad, us.


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Location:BRYCE,United States