Escalante Camping Trip

All I can say about this past weekend is: wow! It seems like we did sooo much on Friday and Saturday. So we drove down to Richfield, UT on Friday morning to meet up with Scott and Cathryn, and decided that before we would leave to get to our campsite, we would go see the new Batman movie. And HO-LY CRAP!!! That movie was probably the best superhero movie that I've ever seen! That being said, it was also one of the most creepy movies I've ever seen. The Joker was exactly as I think he should have been, and the movie was just....... amazing! I don't even know how to describe it, but I would definitely recommend it, though, Mom, Dad, if you read this, I can pretty much guarentee that you guys wouldn't like it.














Anyways, we eventually left for Escalante (Southern Utah) by about 4:30pm and got there right about 7. We were totally stoked to do this trip cause it was one of those things where you backpack in a few miles and have to cross a river a bunch of times. Plus it was my first time doing a camping trip without sleeping in a tent, so that was pretty awesome. It took us about 2 hours to get to our camping site, but surprisingly it was still slightly light outside once we did get there, so we didn't have a problem getting dinner ready or setting up our sleeping area. We ate chili, courtesy of Tucker, that was amazing, and then when we went to bed we watched The Transformers on the Matheson's portable DVD player.. haha, yeah, totally camping, I know.

So when we woke up in the morning, we got everything packed up and headed out by 8 to get back to our car. On the way out we stopped by some indian ruins and a natural bridge, and then once we got to the car (nice and tired from our 7 miles of hiking roundtrip to our campsite), we headed to Bryce Canyon to meet up with some more friends to do a 1.2 mile hike. Now I know that that hike doesn't sound so bad, but it was a hike down into the canyon, and then right back out, or rather out and up. Needless to say, by the time we started the uphill climb, we were ready to just fall asleep. But we did make it out, and after making it back to Richfield and cleaning up a bit, we went to a great restaurant in Monroe, UT for some amazing steaks. After that Tucker and I headed home, and both fell asleep as soon as we got everything into our apartment. So yeah, we're both sore and tired, but we had an amazing time this weekend and wouldn't have had it any other way.