Utah is such an interesting place. It has beauty of a totally different sort than Montana. Like most states, it has its unimpressive places, but it has its pretty places too. Most of Utah seems to have little to no […]
Yesterday, we experienced the opposite extreme of the canyon rim- the canyon floor. We hiked what is called “The Narrows”. Most of the hike was over large round river rocks, strewn under a foot to several feet of water. None […]
The pictures say it all…well, almost. Today, we hiked up to Observation Point. It was a 8 mile round trip with 2200 feet in elevation gain. We started at 7am in hopes to make it up the rocky slope before […]
We went on an eight mile round trip hike to Observation Point today. Starting early to avoid the sweltering heat, we took the six forty-five shuttle bus to the trail head. Most of the four miles up was steep switchbacks, […]
Since we were just passing through, we chose a truck stop to sleep in the night before last. Our small setup seemed lost in the long lineup of trucks. I think we passed the noisiest night sleep we have ever experienced. […]
Today we went on a very short one mile hike to the canyon overlook. It was evening so we wanted to get there before the sunset. When we drove there we had to pass through a tunnel. This was the […]
When I was in high-school, I was never voted as the “most likely to be spending the night in an rv at the Flying J”. It’s true, yet here I am. For those of you that don’t know us, we’re […]
Saturday we left the the huge mountains and lush trees of Montana. Then we entered the rolling hills and sparse trees of Idaho. We had been driving most all of the day so we stopped at a Flying […]
Our travels from the Glacier National Park area to Idaho Falls have provided a diverse array of scenery. It has been a feast for the eyes. The landscape went from mountainous and heavily treed, to hilly and sparse, and then […]
We were all happy the smoke lifted for a few hours – long enough to see some of the mountains at Glacier National Park as we hiked to Grinnell Lake.