Capitol Reef, 2008
Okay, this was a couple weeks ago. I'm slow. We had a great time. Elise and I crossed the stream and wandered around a beautiful valley for about two hours, at a very slow pace, cause I can't walk fast anymore. This pic of Elise on the other side of the stream from me, is when I had to convince her she could come across at this point, even though I crossed further upstream. She was so scared to fall in this cold water! HA! She ended up getting her feet wet anyway. 
If you squint really hard and zoom in to the top of this mountain, you'll see the off-grid campus, two flags (one American, one Utah), and a few little people standing around. But really you can't see them in this small picture. This is, by the way, the hill that Elise and I climbed DOWN and back UP again... It isn't as steep as it looks, but it is quite exhausting and rocky terrain! 
Here's Elise coming back down from touching the big mountain that we gazed at for quite a long time. It is SO LARGE!!!
And there it is. Huge.
Elise next to the tallest thing I think I've ever stood next to! Where is my repelling equipment and belayer when I need them?!
Here is Elise, standing beside this HUGE cliff. It went up for ever. I would have loved to repel DOWN this wall. It was amazing!!
Some crazy surveyor, maybe, took it upon himself to paint his name and title on this beautiful rock. What the... Why?!! The shadow is me, of course. I'm not sure how he/she wrote that high, or that large, maybe a ladder, but it was large. I could have reached maybe to the date at the bottom.
Here is Elise the Tracker. Using the book that Grandpa Wight bought her in Glacier National Park, we tracked elk, deer, cow, rabbits, and possibly a bear!! She is standing next to a large ant hill. These were all over. Kinda scary.
Here is the cliff from the plateau that the campus sits on. Note the color differentiation and the holes possibly from bats or birds using the mountain as their home. Such a beautiful place!! I want to go back sometime without a hurry back home kind of mentality. Going with Mike and Ken for work was fun, but completely exhausting. The people there are awesome and the facilities are FANTASTIC!! I'm rooting for a home just like this one day in the forest somewhere not too far away!!
Okay, this was a couple weeks ago. I'm slow. We had a great time. Elise and I crossed the stream and wandered around a beautiful valley for about two hours, at a very slow pace, cause I can't walk fast anymore. This pic of Elise on the other side of the stream from me, is when I had to convince her she could come across at this point, even though I crossed further upstream. She was so scared to fall in this cold water! HA! She ended up getting her feet wet anyway. 
If you squint really hard and zoom in to the top of this mountain, you'll see the off-grid campus, two flags (one American, one Utah), and a few little people standing around. But really you can't see them in this small picture. This is, by the way, the hill that Elise and I climbed DOWN and back UP again... It isn't as steep as it looks, but it is quite exhausting and rocky terrain! 
Here's Elise coming back down from touching the big mountain that we gazed at for quite a long time. It is SO LARGE!!!
And there it is. Huge.
Elise next to the tallest thing I think I've ever stood next to! Where is my repelling equipment and belayer when I need them?!
Here is Elise, standing beside this HUGE cliff. It went up for ever. I would have loved to repel DOWN this wall. It was amazing!!
Some crazy surveyor, maybe, took it upon himself to paint his name and title on this beautiful rock. What the... Why?!! The shadow is me, of course. I'm not sure how he/she wrote that high, or that large, maybe a ladder, but it was large. I could have reached maybe to the date at the bottom.
Here is Elise the Tracker. Using the book that Grandpa Wight bought her in Glacier National Park, we tracked elk, deer, cow, rabbits, and possibly a bear!! She is standing next to a large ant hill. These were all over. Kinda scary.
Here is the cliff from the plateau that the campus sits on. Note the color differentiation and the holes possibly from bats or birds using the mountain as their home. Such a beautiful place!! I want to go back sometime without a hurry back home kind of mentality. Going with Mike and Ken for work was fun, but completely exhausting. The people there are awesome and the facilities are FANTASTIC!! I'm rooting for a home just like this one day in the forest somewhere not too far away!! 
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