Return to Mighty Utah!
It's that time again-- BLOCK BREAK 5: The Reckoning. Let's break down the numbers, shall we?
Destination: The San Juan river, Utah
Time: Left around noon on Wednesday, returned at 2:30 AM this morning
Nights on the river: 3
People: 8
Rafts: 2
Cheap wine: 3 glass jugs
Cheap tequila: 5 bottles
Weather: Blue skies and stary nights, except on the drive home.
Day hikes: 2
Harmonica/guitar/mandolin jams: plenty
Sweat lodges made from sticks, tarps, and sleeping bags for insulation: 2
Nakedness in the sweatlodges: complete
Running out into the lake after the sweat lodge, then returning to dance around the fire, yelling/laughing the entire time: enthusiastically and primitively.
Avocados eaten: 20
Delicious meals: 10
Was pushed by Ben into the cold river: once
Pushed Ben into the cold river: twice
Badass ruins discovered: 1
Songs written about leaving my left leg in texas: 1
Voice: very hoarse
Happiness: fulfilled
Adventure: Sam
Click the following for a few more picturez.
This is Ben. Guess what the native american word for avocado literally derives from. C'mon, guess.
As always, pictures do not to justice to the grandiosity of Utah's rocks.
Ramon, Laura (who is an expert at shirking away from pictures), Zak, Evalina, Anya.
We found some badass ruins.
Badass Zak at the badass ruins.
So darn pretty.
Canyon walls like this make me really really want to take geology.
Aesthetic, no?
Eddie in the back, Ben in the front. This looks like an epic cover to something. Something epic.
Happy to be there.
Zak, Ben.
Can you figure out which rock is the one that has been famously named Mexican Hat?
At one point Ben decided to get naked and run far up into the cliffs. Ramon played mandolin.
And now I must work my ass off, since my class this block is Biology of Vertebrates. Hope you're all doing well.