Xmas Road Trip Cont'd

After digging our cars out of the driveway Jesse, Tierra, Vero, and I got one more day of boarding in at Kirkwood on Friday and it was great. All that snow made for powder so deep you needed a snorkel. From there we started making our way towards Utah, but due to some mis-communication, Vero and I headed south towards Death Valley while Jesse and Tierra headed more east through Nevada. Vero and I camped just inside of Death Valley for one night and then drove most of the day to meet up with J & T in Zion National Park.

We thought camping in DV was cold but Zion was down in the teens. We had the right gear, though, so we had a toasty night in our sleeping bags. The next day we hiked up the trail to Angel's Landing. The park was beautiful in the snow and apparently it only gets snow that sticks a couple times a year so our timing was perfect.

From there we drove to Bryce Canyon National Park a couple hours away and arrived just in time for sunset. I didn't think it was possible but Bryce Canyon looked even more spectacular in the snow. It's such a unique place with strange rock formations. We decided to get a hotel last night since we were at higher elevation and the temperature was dropping down close to zero degrees. Today we did a hike through the canyon itself.

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Xmas Road Trip

Vero and I are on a road trip to Utah for the holidays. Our plans were in flux right up until almost the day we left. Due to a number of storms that rolled through, we decided to start our trip in Tahoe. We rented a cabin with our friends Jesse, Tierra, Blake, and Anna and we all snowboarded yesterday and the day before. The snow has been really good except that there are still a number of hidden rocks, of which my upper ass found one with a good amount of force. Ouch! Now there's so much snow we couldn't even get out to go to the movies today much less the resort again. Apparently 30" fell last night and it was still going strong this morning. Hopefully things will calm down a little so that we can get out of here tomorrow.