Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Lake Powell 6/27-7/3/10

We took Dustin and Jen and their family and Erin and Chelsea to Lake Powell with us this trip. We camped the first night at the mouth of West Canyon. We got anchored just in time to see the most beautiful sunset of the week. Monday morning it was off to scout for a better site for the week. We ended up on the Dry Creek fork of Rock Creek Canyon. The site was very nice. We had an entire cove to ourselves on the 4th of July week! We were able to play up and down the main fork of Dry Creek and had great water every day.

This trip was a much needed relaxing vacation. We had such a busy, hectic schedule. Of the preceding 9 Saturdays, I was only home for 2 of them. We enjoyed a peaceful relaxing trip. We spent quite a bit of time exploring the canyons between West Canyon and Rainbow Bridge. Every one of them brings new surprises at every bend. It is so much fun to wind up in a canyon and go through narrow, tight passes, only to see them open up and go much further.

All of the kids loved the water time. All 3 boys wakeboarded, skied, surfed and tubed. Colbie and Stacia also surfed. We enjoyed swimming all around our cove.

We camped near Dangling Rope Marina. On the day we did most of our exploring we stopped in for ice cream. Bad news, the machine was broken. This makes 2 trips in a row that we have stopped at Dangling Rope and not gotten ice cream. They don't even sell packaged ice cream in the store. After a long, hot day there is nothing better than the ice cream and we have been skunked twice in a row!

The trip back to the marina was a fast one and we were able to pump out, gas up and clean up in record time. After we were done, we enjoyed Trisha's new favorite tradition of swimming in the resort pool before going home.


Trisha


Chelsea came out of her ski and it hit her as it passed over.


Side profile. It puffed out almost an inch immediately.


Chaz surfing


Dustin and Stacia. She is having fun. (we think)


Brody and Erin. Brody's line of the trip was "One more turn"


Trisha got so much better at surfing


One of Brody's 1,000 jumps off the houseboat


We found this cool cave in Rock Creek Canyon


Colbie and Stacia


Looking out at the mouth of our cove. We named it Dog cove. Can you see it?


Brody is styling in Trisha's old bindings



JT wasn't afraid to charge it


Brody shows his true colors


Brody doesn't go far so he gets all his tricks in as soon as he gets up. He tries ollies and jumps.


Chaz


Dustin, Jen, Stacia and Crew


Chelsea getting creative with Chaz


Brody's action shots off of the houseboat


Another beautiful Lake Powell evening


Sunset over Rock Creek


We found this fun little hole in Driftwood Canyon


At the end of Little Arch Canyon


Lake Powell scenery





"Water bomb"


Entrance to the cave in Rock Creek



Sunset at the mouth of West Canyon

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