The big event of the trip (aside from my actual birthday) was upon us - the annular solar eclipse that would be happening over a big swath of the western United States! So what is an annular solar eclipse? Unlike what some sources and popular beliefs state, it is not an eclipse that happens annually,… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 4: Annular Solar Eclipse
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40th Birthday Adventure Day 3: Hiking Wheeler Peak at Great Basin National Park
October 13, 2023 Let's go climb a mountain!! I cannot resist a good mountain summit, especially of a super pretty mountain... anddddd it would be the last mountain of my 30s! Wheeler Peak rises to 13,063 feet in the Snake Range of the Great Basin. The peak boasts all sorts of accolades: Great Basin National… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 3: Hiking Wheeler Peak at Great Basin National Park
40th Birthday Adventure Day 2: Great Basin National Park – Bristlecone Pines, Glacier, and Lehman Caves… Oh My!
October 12, 2023 We awoke on a beautiful vista outside of the Snake Creek entrance of Great Basin National Park, eager to the see the views after arriving at the campsite after dark (and an adventurous drive). Our neighbors at a campsite further down had left, so we decided to move down to that site… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 2: Great Basin National Park – Bristlecone Pines, Glacier, and Lehman Caves… Oh My!
40th Birthday Adventure Day 1: Cathedral Gorge State Park and Great Basin National Park
My 40th birthday trip has had quite a few iterations over the past year of planning, but in the end it still involved the thing it always had in the plan: the annular solar eclipse in Great Basin National Park on October 14th. "Last minute" plans came to fruition about a month out, and a… Continue reading 40th Birthday Adventure Day 1: Cathedral Gorge State Park and Great Basin National Park
A BeaUTAHful Bucket List: Day 7 – Wrapping up the Colorado River via kayak
Day 7 - April 1, 2022 The take aways... I need CrocsThe Instagramers have taken over Emerald CaveNothing feels better than a warm Venture WipeNothing tastes better than In N Out BurgerChloride, AZ is where I am going to retireBags of dirt are frightful The second day of kayaking the Black Canyon of the Colorado… Continue reading A BeaUTAHful Bucket List: Day 7 – Wrapping up the Colorado River via kayak