Hey everyone! In today's post, we finish sharing our Spring Break photos, and prepare to get more current here. However, before leaving Moab and Utah, we were also treated to some amazing sights in Canyonlands National Park. We snagged another nice campsite, this time within the national park, and set our tent up in the middle. The one side made parking easy...
...while the other made it extremely painful to crawl out of the tent for a 2AM bathroom run. Yowzah!
In addition to being surrounded by lots of cacti (which, don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not complaining about!), we also found ourselves in the midst of some amazing scenery. It was incredible how different Canyonlands and Arches felt, despite only being about 30 miles apart.
All this open space at Canyonlands left us pretty exposed to the elements. The rangers spoke of a coming windstorm. Despite the gorgeous blue skies, they were definitely right! As we embarked on our "big" hike for the day (to a place called "Upheaval Dome," thought to be an impact crater caused by a large meteor), we felt the winds begin to pick up.
By the time we reached the Upheaval Dome, the winds were blowing at about 50 miles an hour!
The wind kicked up tons of dust, and pretty soon we could see very little. Before we lost visibility, we took these two photos of the dust storm moving up through the canyons.
Shortly afterwards, all that dust and wind began finding its way (RELENTLESSLY!) inside our tent, and we shifted from picture-taking mode to hold-the-tent-together mode. Accordingly, we'll end this post (and our Moab recap) here, and wish you a great week. We'll catch you soon, hopefully with some more current photos to share!
