CONQUER YOURSELF!

Last week I took these two ladies on a hike I KNEW they would love!! It rained the day before, and the ground was still pretty wet, so I knew there may be a chance we would have to turn around and do something else. We reached the mountain, and the picture shows what we had to climb first.... this GIANT white sandstone mountain. When the sandstone is dry, it is like sandpaper, and grips right to your shoe.... that is why we 'LOVE' our sandstone mountains. But once that sandstone is wet, it is very slippery and that is why it was also named, 'Slickrock'! Well because these ladies LOVE a challenge, they still wanted to attempt it....attempt we did, but it was too slippery, so we had to turn around and we enjoyed a beautiful hike in Snow Canyon. But they both wanted to come back when it was dry and try it again.

This time I brought Cheryl, one of our very prepared hiking guides, and very 'SAFE' hiker. So off we went....up the mountain. The first part is very challenging when dry, and today although it was a warm, BEAUTIFUL day, there were still traces of wet rock in the shade, but we were very careful with our footing, and we made it to the top. We were very cautious, and the first mountain took us a little over an hour because of the elements (normally it would have taken us 40 min tops), but we CONQUERED!!

Once we were on top of the sandstone, we ran into snow, and it became a little more intense....but we got out of the snow real quick!

We stopped for a little doctoring. Jeanette became quickly acquainted with our yucca catcus plants here, and she needed a little doctoring. This is a horrible pic, I apologize, it is one I took with my phone, but it has Cheryl doing her thing, she is ultra prepared for everything!! The rest of the pics were taken by Cheryl.

THIS is AWESOME CHASM!! It is breathtaking, and beautiful!

This is Snow Canyon overlook, Cheryl said the first time she ever saw this, she sat down and cried because of the beauty. Pictures will never capture the magnitude of these mountains, and the powerful feeling you get when you are on top of this mountain looking down over Snow Canyon! We met up with Cindy and Mike who met us from the other side. Mike chose to follow Nick's (Desert Cliff's guide) advise and 'Hike to Hike again', and chose not to follow us crazy ladies!!:)

Jeanette is on her last week here, and we will miss her!! I can't wait to show her results and her before and after pics of just 4 weeks!! She worked hard!! notice the yucca plant in the front of the picture, this is the plant that kept stabbing Jeanette!

Jeanie is a firefighter from California, she is one tough lady, but has a heart of gold!

The end of the hike was following a horse trail back to our van, and we had to enjoy a snowball fight in the beautiful Snow on the other side!!

This hike we had to name after our two crazy and tough guests Jeanette and Jeanie, so it will be now known as The Crazy J's hike:). We hiked 6 miles with an elevation climb of 1200 ft, and most of that was done in the first mile!