Non-lottery Slot (ery)...

Slot canyons float my boat 

and pictures of a spectacular one have been lighting up my radar for years.

It's called Kanarra Falls and it's in Kanarraville, Utah. 

Below are examples of images I've been swooning over...

(photographer unknown)

It's fun to notice the different ladders 

on the right of the falls through the years.

Sign me up - let's go!!!

With the twigs' work and school schedules this summer, 

(Zac's working a full & a part-time job

& our girlie is getting her CNA)

we knew a week-long vacation wasn't in the cards 

so when we all had Memorial Day off 

we jumped at the chance for a little vacation

to hike Kanarra Falls.

The trail heads uphill on a dirt service road

till you get to your first stream crossing.

You carefully balance across the logs, 

not having any idea that on your way back down in a couple of hours 

you won't even glance at the logs. 

You'll just plow through the stream 

because you're so use to it by then. 

Hahaha!

Eventually the service road disappears 

and a beautiful little trail along Kanarra Creek continues.

The canyon narrows 

and the trail gets interesting 

as you cross back and forth through the creek 

many many times. 

Eventually...the slot canyon appears.

Oh boy! Oh boy!

=D

We've done a pretty good job hiding it in the pictures till now

but we did this beautiful little hike with about

200 new friends!

Hahaha!

There have been concerns raised 

about the number of visitors in this canyon
(the water source for the town of Kanarraville).

We read that the town council is 

"pursuing a leasing deal with the Utah School 

and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) 

that would give them the ability 

to control the amount of people hiking the canyon daily."

They may consider doing an "extreme lottery system"

like The Wave currently has. 

Boy are we glad we made it to Kanarra Falls before 

having to go through that type of lottery again. 

We were so lucky years ago when we got Wave permits
on our second day of trying in person
after striking out for the online permits!

Anyway, back to business. 

At the end of the slot canyon

there is a beautiful waterfall

and a really nice ladder to climb to the top

and continue on up the canyon 

though it widens out just after the choke stone waterfall.

Thanks for the sweet ladder Kanarraville!

It was a gorgeous place!

Alma said it best...

"all things denote there is a God; 

yea, even the earth, 

and all things that are upon the face of it,"

<3

Eating cinder blocks

I LOVE rock! 

I love to look at it...

...to hike on it and between it...

  ...to feel it under my hands...

...and even to my shame, I like (or liked) to eat it. Growing up, this was my backyard and when it rained that ordinary cinder block fence you can see by the trees smelled delicious, so delicious! I could not help myself. I'd breathe in that yummy smell and nibble away at the fence. I'm sure my teeth marks are still there. The wear marks certainly show on my front teeth. I've given up eating rock but boy howdy I still love it.

 

During our brief spring break we got to hike one of my favorite slot canyons, Little Wild Horse. It feeds my soul. Lucky for me, the Mr. likes rock too, though he never ate it.   :)

The twigs come along on our rock adventures. They don't crave it like we do but they love to climb it.

I wonder what the rock will be like in North Carolina where this twig will be spending his time loving and serving the people who live there, and the God that he and I love more than we love rock.