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Featured Photo: Arch View in Bryce Canyon

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Family with Kids, PHOTOS Tagged , , , , ,

Featured Photo:  “Bryce Arch” -Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA.

One of the best parts of taking my kids on travel adventures is watching them discover.  I’m a self-proclaimed travel junkie, already thrilled to be on a new trail or in some other new-to-me place.  But watching their wonderment enhances my own to an utterly splendid level.  This photo was a snap decision, but it caught my oldest son taking in a freshly unfolding view in Bryce Canyon National Park as well as my youngest son’s excitement to see what his older brother had just found.

From July 2008.
More on Bryce Canyon National Park and Utah hikes:
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Wash, Dry, Fly, Repeat
Dogs and Cars, but NOT Cows
Bridge Over the Reef
Adventures in Utah

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Glen Canyon Glide

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Canyons, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Kayak/Canoe Tagged , , , ,

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Floating down the Colorado River from the Glen Canyon Dam to the upper edge of the Grand Canyon at Lee’s Ferry, Arizona was a serene yet surreal experience.  Easy friendships were formed for an afternoon.  The words of strangers from places I’ve yet to see broadened our perspectives with their own.  And vice versa, I hope.

At times we simply basked in the stillness, alternately humbled and elevated by our wonderment.  Gliding, as part of the river itself as it carved minuscule changes into the canyon surrounding us.

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Don’t Look Down

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Bear Mountain, Camelback Mountain, Hiking Tagged , , , , , ,

While southbound to Cincinnati on I-71 a couple of years ago, Zach and I laughed over a few favorite memories from an Arizona trip the previous spring. His bold assurance as we clambered up and down the sides of mountains and canyons had given height-wary me additional amounts of courage and strength. During our car ride, he admitted to having experienced a couple of less than absolutely confident times himself.

Not surprisingly, his moments of unease coincided with a few of my own white knuckle memories: A couple of “don’t look down” spots on the side of Camelback Mountain (we both looked!) and on the side of an almost bald outcropping on Bear Mountain where sudden hail and wind gusts made hugging a scrubby bush more about survival than about any warm environmental feelings.

Anytime you get to push a shoulder into your own boundary and expand the edge line out a little further, you facilitate your own growth. When you can do that in the company of someone you care about, you have a witness with whom to frame and commemorate the change.

“What a great trip!”  Not sure which one of us said it first.  But either one of us could have stated the obvious.

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