Mckonkie Ranch Petroglyphs and Massey's Cave

Our Vernal adventures today began driving red cloud loop up dry fork canyon looking for Massey's cave.

After driving up about 4 miles, not sure where the cave was, we turned around and went back to McKonkie's Ranch to see the Petroglyphs.

See the Peteoglyphs behind Dad?

These petroglyphs were like a whole family.
Beacham, Joyanne,  Jaden, James, Chloe

Marcia, Steve, James, Grant, Jaden, Beacham, Daren, Joyanne,  Mom, Chloe

All of us with awesome Dad!

After getting directions from someone at McKonkie's ranch, we made our way back up Dry Fork Canyon, up the Red Cloud Loop for about 20 minutes to where there was a Fork in the road, and we took the left Fork.

We came to muddy roads and then snowy roads, until we came upon a snow embankment where we parked our cars.

We trudged through the snow for a mile and a half, wondering if we would ever reach the cave, and almost turned back a couple of times.

Finally, we found the cave.

Steve, Daren, Grant, James, Jaden, and Dad all went in and explored the cave.

Joyanne and Beacham came last and explored a bit too.

The cave was long, and had places to crawl through and many different caverns.

Marcia and Mom made it to just past the entrance of the cave and hiked back together with Marcia leaving mile marker signs every 1/4 of a mile.

See all the snow we hiked through.

There was about 2 1/2 feet of snow.

Mom's shadow with everyone's foot prints.

The opening of Massey's cave. 

Grant

Grant, Daren, Steve, and James

Grant, looking for Massey's cave.

Red Fleet Dinosaur Tracks 🦕

We drove to Red Fleet right after Moonshine arch.

The hike was amazing with all the jagged rocks and variety of colors and formations.

We loved seeing actual dinosaur tracks ingrained in the rock to show where the dinosaurs walked.

It was so cool!

Chloe, Daren, Grant

Joyanne and Beacham 

Mom dipping her toes in the chilly water.

Mom and James soaking in the cold water.

The Red Fleet Lake.

Jaden, Chloe, James, Mom, Daren, Marcia, Steve, Joyanne, Beacham and Grant in front

Selfie with Dad

The reflection in the lake and the colors was breathtaking. 

Cow tree that's hard to see.

High up on the rocks.

Moonshine Arch

We hiked up to Moonshine arch with the Prescotts.

The hike was about a mile.

Everyone enjoyed hiking the soft, yellow sand, as well as the rocks. 

Grant, Daren, Jaden, James

Steve and Chloe

Beacham Hill and Joyanne

Nancy and Marcia

Everyone above the arch with me below.

It's snowing!

Nice arch.

Here we are under the arch.
Chloe, Nancy, Joyanne, Beacham, Marcia

Jaden and James

Good old Steve!

Grant, Jaden, James, Daren, Steve

Jaden and Grant

Jaden

Joyanne and her boyfriend,  Beacham Hill

Joyanne and Beacham 

Beacham, James, Jaden, Grant

Mom, James, Beacham, Joyanne,  Jaden, Grant, Dad, Chloe, Daren, Marcia, Steve

A good looking group of hikers come rain or snow, we give it a go!

Notice the Beautiful arch behind.

The lovey dovey couple 😍

High on the mountain top!
Grant, Jaden, Daren

Grant, James, Chloe, Daren

 

Happy April Fools Day on Vacation

We drove to Vernal this morning to meet up with the Prescotts. 

I warned them my kids had been doing tricks on us all morning.

They blocked our door so we couldn't come out.

They also moved and hid the van, and sang funny songs.

When we got to our hotel, we found a few surprises in store for us from the Prescotts. 

Daren and Chloe caught in the act of trying to fool us. 🤣

Our closets were full of balloons!

The boys had goldfish in their toilet.

Doesn't our car look fun?!

I tried to use the bathroom, only to find duct tape instead of toilet paper. 😂

Thankfully we had tissues on the counter to use.