Day 16: Capital Reef



Today we made the drive to Captial Reef. 
Here is our route to Torrey, UT and Capital Reef National Park


Goofy faces as we enjoy the drive through Utah. 



I love that he still wants to sit with me. 


Our first views of Capital Reef during our drive in. 


Our 5th National Park. 

The positives of social media is it can allow you to learn about the location of some of your friends as you are traveling across country. It seemed like my old friend from work, Barb was traveling through the same part of Utah as us. I was so excited that we were able to meet up in Capital Reef. 

This is my friend Barb that used to work at GCI with me. It was so nice to see her and finally meet her husband, Dave. 

I was so excited when I heard her say my name at the end of our hike. We had terrible cell service and I had texted her to tell her which hike we were planning to do. 


Capital Reef!

The start of our hike was a little rainy. 








There were lots of little caves or holes the kids could climb in. 


The kids thought these were cool since they could fit in them. 




The boys were checking out the smaller bridges over the creek below. 



The landscape in Utah is just so impressive. 


Views of Capital Reef. 


The kids during our hike. 


Right before our hike there was a pretty good rainfall. 


Madi taking a rest at the end of our hike. 


Some of our views as we hiked to the Natural Bridge. 


Our hike to the Natural Bridge. 



The view of the Natural Bridge. 


If you look closely you can see petroglyphs that were carved in the rock by the Indiginous People. 



Its amazing to think about these being 1000 years old. And looking at the way the rocks have changed. 




These petroglyphs were really high up and it seems like the rocks had to have fallen where they would have stood to draw them. 



These were really high too. 

















 

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