Last spring I went with a couple friends down Bluejohn Canyon and out Horseshoe Canyon , and we passed by the Great Gallery, one of the world's best pictograph panels. I decided then and there to drag my family back one day. This weekend, that day came! We couldn't do the full Bluejohn route, which is many miles and includes rappels, but there's a great down-and-back hike into Horseshoe Canyon, and we set our sights on that. I'd originally hoped to do the hike in late February, thinking the weather would cooperate, but Utah has been cold and wet and miserable since January, so we postponed until mid-April. We invited a family from our neighborhood along - Chad and Lisa and their three kids - and also Bri and Mason, and Friday afternoon hit the road for the Super 8 in Green River. Our first stop was the Wendy's in Price, and when we got there we discovered that Asa had brought a friend along: a ball of ice he'd made out of the hail falling at our house when w...

In October we had a little two-day break from school, so we went down to St. George for some exploring with Grandpa. Our first stop was down a long bumpy dirt road to see some petroglyphs. I've never seen so many in one place! After exploring there, we went out into another stretch of desert to see some real live dinosaur tracks. Check out that big track right by their feet! Leah found another one. My foot is marking the beginning of a line of tracks. After the tracks we continued the long bumpy dirt road theme and headed to Toquerville Falls, but Grandpa's Explorer was no match for this particular bumpy dirt road, so we didn't quite make it. Last stop was Kanarraville Falls, where Nate and I and Grandpa have been a few times before. Unfortunately the rest of the world has now discovered it, so it was totally packed. But it was still beautiful and adventurey. The kids were not fans. Something about havin...