Brian Head, Utah: Part 1

brandon and i took off to brian head to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary. it was one of the best weekends we've had together. there are too many pics for one blog so i'm dividing the trip into three parts...here are the pics from part one (we did a lot of hiking that day so the pics are all from our hike):


i loved the way the yellow tree and red rock stood out against the green trees.


we found this piece of wood with the interesting pattern in it. must have been some sort of burrowing insect. the bark had fallen off in one piece next to it and had the image imprinted on it.


brandon with his walking stick. he was on a mission to find the perfect walking stick. he did end up with some pretty good ones.


this was found on the henderson hill hike near parowan, utah.


this tree had a weird smooth spot. nature is so interesting sometimes.


a view from vermillion's castle.


another view from vermillion's castle. brandon said i need to be smarter about picking places to hike and look for hikes with names like "flat meadow" instead of vermillion's castle.


me posing my a small cavey thing on the way up to vermillion's castle.


brandon hiking vermillion's castle.

that night we enjoyed a nice dinner and the steam room/hot tub to soothe our poor muscles from all that hiking. it was heavenly.