Utah Backpacking and Housesitting in Nevada City
In what has become an annual tradition with my friends Paul, Kevin and Joel, we all met up in Salt Lake City, UT on October 24 to go backpacking. Kevin flew in from Michigan, Joel flew in from Seattle, Paul drove down from Montana and I had driven from Denver with Ginny. This was later in the season than we typically go and we were a little concerned about cooler weather as a snowstorm had just blown through the region the day before. Fortunately we were heading about six hours south of SLC to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area where we hoped the temperatures would be a little higher. My friends had done a similar trip eight years ago but I missed that trip as we were living in New Zealand then. But I had heard all about the red rocks, the massive canyon walls and those arches… “Sam, you just gotta see these arches!” So you could say that I was pretty jazzed about the trip and knew that it was going to be quite different than pretty much every other backpacking trip that I’ve done. ...