Sunday, September 18, 2011

ATV club adventure

Yes, we are joiners and we joined the local ATV club. We had our first ride Saturday and we had a blast. We met a lot of nice people and saw the most beautiful scenery we have ever seen. We went to the Vermillion Cliffs and Paria Canyon. There were 13 machines, 19 people and 3 dogs along for the trip (no, Garth wasn't one of them because he would have been too hot).

There were quite a few speculations on how these formations came about. One was that there was a water hole and sediment filled it that was harder than the sandstone so when the sandstone washed away these were left.
Supposedly, this stone house was built by a polygamist guy for one of his wives. He took her there and left her and when she tracked him down in Paria she poisoned him. Way to go girl.





This is Paria Canyon and you can see the river at the bottom and at the very end you can see Lee's Ferry. Very beautiful and I don't know how you would see this unless you went by ATV.
Over to the right you could see Lake Powell.

The Vermillion Cliffs and I wish the picture really showed the beautiful colors.














6 comments:

Mark said...

It's non-stop fun in good ol' Kanab! Looks like a blast!

kalie said...

That looks so fun. I love how involved you all are. It makes me happy to see you out adventuring.

The Frandsens said...

Wow, I would love to see that place! Sounds like a pretty awesome club to be a part of.

Scott said...

That looks really cool, I'm jealous. You guys will have to make sure you remember how to get to all these places, so you can show us around when we are out there.

nielson family said...

You guys are always discovering new and fun fun places to explore! Awesome! (Lisa Mills)

Ryan and Donna said...

Oh, I know my Dad (Uncle Garry) would have loved this trip! You took great pictures. I thought of you guys as I drove through Kanab over the weekend. Driving from Page to St George.