Goblin Valley

So I just spent the last two days in Goblin Valley with some of the students from my work and it was AMAZING!! For those of you who haven't been, you should defnitely make it one of your next family trips. It is so beautiful down there, so secluded, so peaceful. It's about 3 hours SE from Provo and definitely OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!

As soon as we got down there we started our trip off with a 9 mile hike around Little Wild Horse trail that took us almost 6 hours. We took our time to travel through the slot canyon, very skinny and narrow at times, learn how to canyoneer, and enjoy a picnic lunch on the beautiful red rocks. We were all very sore and sunburned when we got back to our campsite but that made for a soundless and full night's sleep! Our trip also included cooking hot dogs, chili, and cherry cobbler over the fire, playing "Sherriff's and Outlaws" around the rocks, looking at the stars in the big clear sky, and HUGE nasty stink beatles.

Another awesome thing that we were able to do down there was go explore the actual reason why it's called Goblin Valley! Goblin Valley was first founded by cowboys searching for cattle and then another man found it when he was looking for an alternative route between Green River and Cainsville and found five-buttes and a valley of strange-shaped rock formations surrounded by a huge wall of eroded cliffs. It's so easy to just spend hours exploring that place and looking at the wonderful scenery. Even though it was full of sweat, aches, dirt, sleepiness, it was definitely fun, worry free, bonding experience.