Arizona and Southern Utah

Here's a quick, whirlwind tour of our Arizona/Southern Utah trip in May:

We visited Capitol Reef National Park- here we are at the end of the Rim Walk Trail. It was tough, but definitely worth the amazing view!

This one-roomed schoolhouse enrolled students until the 1940's. There are a bunch of old pioneer homes in Capitol Reef; there are also a bunch of fruit orchards where you can pick free fruit in the fall, and there are a lot of Fremont Indian petroglyphs.

I ate this (mmmmm)....

Here (Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder, Utah- a town of approx. 200 inhabitants)...

We hiked around the Petrified Forest State Park in Escalante, Utah....

We hiked to the Lower Calf Creek Falls in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (where I would go back to in a heartbeat; definitely my most favorite place during the trip)...

We spent some time in Bryce Canyon National Park (and tried not to freeze to death or get electrocuted by the thunderstorms booming overhead....)

My sister and I wondering what we got ourselves into (on Camelback Mountain)...

Nothin' can stop us. We're just that tough.

There are places on Camelback where you had to pull yourself up with a pole cemented into the rockface, and other places where you climbed over rock after rock. It was intense!