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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The San Rafael Swell in Utah

Renae at Temple Mountain Mine Town
Renae in Bell Canyon
Renae rock climbing in Bell Canyon
Renae playing in the trees.
Again playing in trees.
Coming out to the trailhead
Me working my way up a ledge in Bell Canyon.
In the canyon
Hopefully it doesn't start raining.
Which way do we go.

A couple weeks ago we decided, weather permitting, that we would go hike around in Utah. Last week we decided we would head towards Green River and hike in the San Rafael Swell. We watched the weather closely and decided we could go based on the weather report. Since the Swell is pretty much slot canyons you don't want to get caught in a flash flood. So we headed out early Sunday morning and got to Goblin Valley around 10 am and of course it was overcast and hasn't really stopped raining. The person working the BLM office suggested we not hike there because it hadn't stopped raining and is forcasted to rain all day. We kind of hemhawed around a little and headed to the trailhead to just check it out. There was a man and his daughter that just came out and indicated it was really dry. So we decided to a check it out walk for about 30 and then come back out. What a blast, really looking forward to returning here to hike. We got back to the car around noon and decided to drive around a little bit. We found some really awesome camping and hiking places further up the swell on BLM land.

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