Arizona and Utah

Alice wrote: Six years passed since our last large vacation without kids. Suprisingly, without much planning. Roman went to a business trip to Phoenix, Arizona, and I came after him to spent ten days on north Arizona and southern Utah. Pictures here are from Phoenix Butterfly museum and hiking on Squaw Peak and climbing Pinnacle Peak.

This article contains photos from beginning of our trip - travel to the north, night at Flagstaff, stop at Monument Valley, and couple days spent in Moab, center of outdoor laid amid three wonderful areas - Arches NP, Canyonlands NP, and La Sal Mountains.

Visit of interesting Moab museum and heading into wilderness in Escalante. We discovered beauty of narrow slot canyons carved out in soft sandstone by water and walked good number of them.

Last "few" miles from our vacation in Utah and Arizona. Wonderful area of Escalante, vast, scarcely settled land or rock and praire. Through the are there is winding dirt road called Hole-in-the-rock. From that there is great number of small roads, which lead to even smaller trails. Once of those we hiked was Red Breaks slot canyon. On the way back to Phoenix we also did Blue Pools slot canyon, first where we had to use a rope for rapelling. Last stop was in snowy Williams in zoo called Bearizona.