Knotted Rope Canyon.

Yet another post about another canyon.. what can I say, I love them. Except I did not love this one.
Knotted Rope Canyon is located in the San Rafael Swell area which is near Goblin Valley which is in the middle of freakin' no where. I drove up to Goblin Valley from St. George and everyone else drove down from Provo. We met up about 11:00 at night and set up camp. The stars were absolutely AMAZING! I saw countless shooting stars, the milky way, and so much more. I was so amazed by the sky that it was hard for me to sleep. But I managed to catch a few hours of sleep. The sleeping order was Jake (a.k.a. Jake the Snake), Braden (a.k.a. B-rad), Me, and Chad. Jake was out instantly when he layed down and was asleep pretty much the whole time. Braden and I chatted for a little bit and he was kind enough to share his unzipped sleeping bag with me because mine wasn't quite doing the job and he wasn't really using his and Chad was just looking at the stars all night and he would steal my glasses to do so. Logan and Adam set up camp a little further away not so close to the cars. It has been one of my most memorable nights though even with the lack of sleep.

We finally all got changed and ready for the canyon and headed off in the 2 red cars.. Braden, Jake, and I followed everyone else and we had no idea what was going on. We thought the canyon was nice and close and it would be easy to get too...well we were wrong. About 2 hours later we made it to the canyon entrance. It was blazing hot and the hike was so steep. I was pansy and started to get sick on the hike up. And I am pretty sure I was sweating more than any of the boys were.. so gross.

Jake taking a nap while we wait for Chad to go and find my camera that he set down somewhere along the hike. Thankfully, he found it!

This is me, always needing help.

Slimy pool of who knows what and we took turns jumping in. Well Chad jumped in, and as you see below I scooted down while Braden yelled, "Get your a** in the water!" It made me laugh so hard.

HOT! Nice back muscles, he isn't even flexing right here ;). And I just love my facial expression in this one.

Piggy back ride across :)

We FINALLY made it out of the canyon, and played on these sand dunes for a minute and then continued our long, never-ending hike out.

This canyon was not my favorite, if i was taller I think I would have liked it more. There were definitely fun things throughout the canyon. Pothole after pothole after pothole after pothole...etc. I had a hard time getting through some obstacles because #1: I'm short and #2: I don't have any rock climbing skills which would have come in handy. But with the help of my wonderful friends I was able to make it out. On the hike out we were able to follow the river for a couple of miles and ran into a closed down mine and also an old miners house. So that was neat to explore, but by that time I was ready to be done. I was so done with the canyon that instead of camping through Monday and doing another canyon (which was the original plan for me, Logan, and Chad) I chose to leave and just go to Provo instead. So everyone left that night, and we stopped in Price to get us some food at the Wendy's. All of us were exhausted and decided we needed a short nap before we got on the road again so we layed down our seats and slept...slept all night long. Best sleep I've ever had in a car :)

The Subway.

I was able to FINALLY do a canyon called the Subway In Zions. It seems that everyone I talked to has done the Subway and I always see pictures for it everywhere. After a long night at the Permit office in Zions i was able to get the permit for 6 of us to go through. We started with a canyon called Das Boot which then leads into the Subway. I got to do 2 canyons in one day! The group was all driving down from Salt Lake/Provo area and I was going to meet them up in a town called Virgin at 7:30. Except.. I slept through my alarms and woke up to Chad calling me saying they are almost to Virigin. Woops..my bad I overslept. SO i jump out of bed and try and get everything together and leave to head out there. Thankfully they stopped at a grocery store and everyone was easy going. So we all start the drive out to the exit of the Subway and drop off my car, and then all 6 of us (Me, Chad, Sam, Shane, Caleb, and Matt) hop into Sam's car and drive to the entrance of Das Boot. There were not enough seats so it was an uncomfortable ride, but worth it. Here we are at the beginning, dry and happy!

Me, Sam, Caleb, Shane, Chad, Matt

The hike in is a beautiful hike, I have done Das Boot before and I have a picture just like this, so of course I took another one.

This is the entry of the canyon. Chad was an anchor for those who needed some help,but just to make things a little more secure sam held onto chad, I held onto Sam, and Matt held onto me, until one by one we went down.

This is what Das Boot looks like throughout the whole thing, It's beautiful.
We finally made it out of Das Boot and into the SUN!! Das boot is a freezing cold, wet canyon. Wetsuits are highly recommended. So I was absolutely freezing and just left the group and practically ran out of the canyon. And if anyone has every been canyoneering with me they know that I am always in the back of the group because I am slow and just take my time looking at everything but this time i was in the front. And when I finally got into the sun I saw something hanging off my helmet and then i noticed it was a SPIDER, I through off my helmet without unbuckling it, it freaked me out so bad. Anyway, Chad noticed I wasn't around and got worried and left the group and came searching for me. And he was very surprised by how fast i had moved through the canyon. :)

The water was so deep that we couldn't touch, and then we reached a ledge and you could stand. This picture just makes me laugh.

Best Friends

The Boys of the Group

Showing how cold we are

The place i always see in pictures!

Notice how happy I look and it also looks like I know what I'm doing

Notice I had to climb on Sam's shoulders to get down because I got stuck coming down.

The Subway!!
Caleb, Matt, Me, Sam, Shane, and Chad is in front.

We made it out just before we lost all light. It was an amazing day! I may have led us astray on the hike out, and there was even a path to follow. I should never be in the lead.

Run, Dirty Girl, Run

Kiss Me Dirty Race Series put on a race called the Dirty Girl Run. My sister and some of her friends signed up to do it and then told me about it, so my sister-in-law Nickey and I signed up for the relay part so all 6 of us could run it together. The night before all the girls (except me, i was driving up from SG) tie-dyed shirts and socks so that we looked awesome. If I do say so myself, we did look awesome. The race was a total of 4 miles or, so the relay teams each did a 2 mile loop. We decided we didn't want to wait and just went all together and ran the 2 miles as the tie-dye team. It was so much fun, but I do wish it would have been a muddier. I loved all the obstacles, it made the couple of miles go by really fast, much faster than a 1/2 marathon. So when we all came to the end of the 2 miles, 3 of us decided to do the loop again and just do the whole 4 miles. It was worth every scrap on my body! I had a blast doing it! And I even got to donate my old running shoes to a good cause!

Before:



After:

Cool Race Swag?


"We are family"





And there is an awesome photo of Me, Steph, and Krista doing the 2nd loop. Unfortunately it is a Zazoosh photo so I don't know how to copy it, but here is the link.
http://www.zazoosh.com/photos/430556630

Harry Potter Midnight Movie

Harry Potter Midnight Movie!! So much fun, except I fell asleep like 1/2 way through..oh well! Had a good time with some friends!



Hermoine, Dobby, Voldemort, Luna Lovegood, Hagrid




Some of the roomie's!

A few summer adventures...

Adventure 1:
Julie Jill got married! After being roommates for 2 years she left me and got married! and now she is J^3 = Julie Jill Judd




The Three Roomies!


The Happy Couple

Adventure 2:
The Little Mermaid at Tuacahn. What I saw of the play I loved it!
Aubrey, " It got rained out 10 minutes after intermission. So we didn't get to see like the last 45 minutes. I was really bummed. We are still waiting to hear back on what they are doing about our tickets."



Adventure 3:

4th of July




Fun swing over a small river.

Me and Janie. Sparklers are my favorite!!!!!!!!

My cute nephew Luke! He thought he was so cool jumping off the diving board.