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Friday, June 5, 2009

grand staircase-escalante national monument

nicole took me on a hike just a few miles from the ranch - shes so lucky to have all of this so close! i've heard from others that this part of utah was their favorite; now i know why. this pic cant do the area justice - but if you enlarge it and look at it closely, you'll realize just how vast this place is. mid photo you can see a canyon cutaway with a river flowing through...


15 minutes of descent and we finally arrived to it - those trees are full sized 30-40ft or so


we hiked in to a little pool and took an afternoon swim. then we lay on the rocks basking in the hot sun like lizards.
oh, i could reallllllly get used to this...



everywhere you turned there was
something beautiful to see:


hiking back home - steeper than it looks!








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