Moab - Day 1, Part 1

With COVID still restricting a significant portion of travel, we had to be creative with our trip ideas and brainstormed several different options for a quick Spring Break trip.  We actually settled on a trip down to Durango to stay our the Blue Lake Lodge (a favorite from our previous Arizona trip) and then continuing down to Albuquerque for some hiking and good food.  However, all of the reservations were snatched up 12 hours after we spoke to the lodge and we were out of luck.  After some further discussion, we decided to road trip over to Moab as the kids had never been there and it had been many years since Tara also had been.

We also thought quite a bit about if we wanted to stay in Moab itself or actually stay in Fruita (which is an awesome place) and just day trip into Moab as it was a cheaper option.  In the end, we decided to stay in Moab but we did stop on the way out for this hike in Fruita to Devil's Canyon.  It broke up the drive a bit and none of us had hiked here.  This is the crew outside of the parking gate ready for our first adventure.

The weather wasn't too bad for later March with the sun warming us up and a cooler breeze making sure we didn't get get any too hot.  The scenery was pretty awesome and thankfully we had most of the trail all to ourselves.

Here is a picture of me and Tara with the canyon walls starting to take shape in the background.

The trail quickly jumped down to follow this river that looked exactly like chocolate milk.  It was the craziest thing and boys absolutely loved it.  They spent quite a bit of time creating new dams in the river and just generally getting all wet in this silty runoff water.

Here is Tara rocking the purple and turquoise while enjoying some of the sun.  We got warm enough to shed some layers when we were down in the canyon a bit and protected from the wind.