Zion National Park

One of my favorite places in beautiful Utah is a place where you can find amazing views and great hikes. Zion parks is a National park in Southern Utah, it is three hours away from where I live. This is the perfect getaway for those that enjoy nature and adventure

Zion Park features several hikes, here you can find ones that are for beginner or for professionals so there is something for everyone. Zion national park has an unique geography with amazing and dramatic landscape of the sculptured canyons and soaring cliff.

If you want to experience an unique vacation full of adrenaline and excitement, visit Zion National Park


Source
http://www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks

Pass of all Passes

  Hey again! Today I wanted to share about Utah's pass of all passess!!It's a great card to have for people of all ages! You pay for it one time and then you get limitless activities!!! I have had mine for three years and LOVE it! I can go on free dates all the time. It is definitely a boredom reducer. Each year they keep adding on more and more activities as well! Here's a list of everything that you can do with your pass:

• Seven Peaks water park Provo/Salt Lake City
• Trafalgo Lehi/Orem/Sandy
• Orem Owlz
• Utah Blaze (Indoor Football)
• BYU Hockey/Soccer
• Salt Lake Real Soccer
• Ogden Raptors Baseball
• Peaks Ice Arena
• Rocky Mountain Raceway
• Salt Lake Bees
• Tracy Aviary
• University of Utah Games
• Utah Grizzlies
• Utah Valley University Games

@Men-Best dating tool ever!! You buy one pass and for a full year you will never have to pay for another date again! Especially if she already has one!! ha

My advice to people who are interested in purchasing one is to wait for it to go on SALE. This year they had booths at some of the local malls with great deals on them. If you were to buy one online it was about $80...but at the mall it was only $30!! Then, two weeks later they dropped the price even more and it was going for only $20. So pretty cheap for a year worth of entertainment.

My FAVORITE activities is Seven Peaks water park provo. They have some great slides such as the boomerang and free falling. They just barely got this new mat slide and you can now take the mats on the body slides...it is way more intense on the mats because you get to go head first down the slide!

Hiking the Y

As you know I have been here for about 5 years. People that live or are from the Provo/Orem area knows that one of the basic hikes you must do when you get here is to Hike the Y!!!. The Y is very popular, especially with college students, because it represents the Brigham Young University. Every summer my friends and I would plan to hike the Y, but we never ended up going. Most people said that most of the time too much planing ended up in nothing, in our case that was a fact! So yesterday for the first time, I hiked the Y!

Yesterday, my friend Josh suggested that we should go to hike the Y. He asked Lily, Marie, and I if we have hiked it before. We looked each other and started to laugh because we knew none of us had gone yet. Josh could not believe that we have been here for so long and never hiked the most popular and basic hike. Right away he said we should change clothes so that we could hike it. I was not prepared at all to go hiking, and that included clothes!

Luckily my roommates came to my rescue and let me borrow some of their clothes. However, there was one problem. My roommates and I did not wear the same size of shoes. I was about to stay and let them go, but they would not me. So I decided just to take my ballerina shoes that was so flat that you could feel you were almost without shoes.

At the begging the hike was not very difficult. My feet were okay and we kept pushing forward. But almost toward the end of the hike they were hurting me. The hike was actually pretty fun and easy. When we got to the Y we could not believe we did not do it our first year. We staid up there for a while talking, laughing, and just enjoying each others company. It was a different bounding experience with my friends.

I will say the most difficult part was coming down. The one thing we regret is not having water. By the time we started back we were so thirsty! If you ever go...bring water! The overall experience was just great! We joked about how we planned this hike for a long time but we never actually did it. When we finally did it we were not prepare at all!

Hiking the Y made me realize that I sometimes need to spend less time planning and more time actually doing. Sometimes we just need to take the risk and enjoy the Journey.

So if you are in Utah for a visiting or just moved it do not forget to go and hike the Y (don't forget the water too!). Take your friends and enjoy the moment :)

The Beginning 

Half way 

On the Top 

Coming down 

Paiute Trail 2012

The coolest thing i did this summer, hands down, was ride the Paiute Trail with a couple buddies over the span of three days. i usually do a lot of fun things in the summer, but this year was lacking except for this trip which we all try to do every summer. it worked out great because we used it as an extended bachelor party for the big guy. basically, this trail is a network of one trail with hundreds of side trails that wraps around central Utah and goes from desert to mountain tops. our trip lasts three days and covers over 250 miles of dirt, mud, gravel, and some small portions of paved roads.

Day 1. we start in a town called Aurora in central Utah about 30 miles east of Scipio. we load up our quads with our gear, some food, and plenty of fluids and hit the trail. we ride for about seven hours til we get to the Big Rock Candy Mountain motel and restaurant. Apparently there is a country song about this place... i'll find it and add a link. we enjoy a fantastic dinner at the restaurant, take showers, and pretty much go to bed. after a long day of bouncing, vibrating, and teeth chattering trail riding, one's body is done for!

Day 2. we wake up as soon as our bodies will let us and with a few ibuprofen and some gas station snacks for breakfast, we're on the trail again. this day goes from the lower elevation desert to mountain tops of about 11,000 feet in less than two hours. switchbacks and climbing mountains fill the day. dropping into little towns with only one gas station or not even a stop light or a population smaller than my high school graduating class is a real good time to get a feel for small town living. my favorite town is Koosharem. tiny and full of character. a gas station, a post office, and a general store (all in one building) lie at the town's center. you can still pump the gas first, then you have to go inside and tell them how much you pumped. i always stop at the Koosharem Cafe for some great home cooking.

Day 3. after camping out the night before on the edge of a gorgeous lake, its time to hit the trail again. today's ride is only about six hours but filled with just as much bridge jumping, river rinsing, dirt eating, and white-knuckling as the other two. by the time we get back to the car, our bodies are pretty much useless. soreness creeps in making us realize we had muscles we never knew about before.

four wheeler rentals: $600
food and lodging: $250+
sun block: $25
memories with amazing friends to last a lifetime: PRICELESS

See you on the trail next year!!

p.s. couldnt get the link to the song, but you can find it on youtube. just type in big rock candy mountain!