Southern Utah 1999

In December of 1999 we were living in Provo Utah, and during the Christmas break in 1999 we headed for southern Utah, specifically The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

The first night we stayed a wonderful place, La Luz, which is Spanish for "The Light"

and there was plenty of great light that streams through the windows all along the eastern face. It had a very spacious open feeling and the red heated floors were great

Kiah especially liked the ladder.

The next day we headed out on the Hole In the Rock road. We stopped on a side road to hike down to an arch we had read about. I can't even recall now the name of the arch, and searching google for like 10 minutes I can't seem to locate it. Needless to say there are MANY arches in GSENM, and when we went there was no sign that said, "Arch this way", we just parked on the side of the road and hiked down.

Here it is at a distance

Dad climbed up on top

Sofi was very tired and could sleep anywhere even on the rock


You could just barely see the moon behind Stacey and Kiah


Next we headed back down the Hole in the Rock Road, we decided to not go all the way to the end of the road (55 miles) and stoppped instead at Devils Garden (not to be confused with the place of the same name in The Arches National Park).

Hiking down to Devils Garden were some very cool dark purple scratchy bushes

Devils Garden is very similar to Golbin Valley, with lots of hoodoos as well as many arches

 

There are also many arches

Kiah had a great time climbing around on the rocks

Even atop of a arch.