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The last two weeks have flown by between visiting Sun Valley, starting school again, and then visiting Dubois, Wyoming!
Sun Valley was beautiful!

we hiked

 storm-watched

 checked out the oldest chair in the world

 biked!

 best friends reunite!

 And.... back to Salt Lake and back to SCHOOL.
After school dusk riding has been awesome.

 flowers are blooming and everything is GREEN.

After our first week at school, Marco and I went to help Chelsea paint and create a yoga studio for her retreat at Jakey's Fork, Wyoming.

 It was an amazing place with amazing landscapes right outside the door!

The Shine OM yoga retreat will definitely be magical.

Speaking of magical... a crystal cave!!

 It was crazy and awesome.  Like nothing I've ever seeN!

 Marco chilling in the crystal cave.

 glow yoga crystal cave style.

 And a Massive crystal in a creek, marking the spot.

 Dubois was cool and we did some great renovations and had some fun activities.
The drive home was beautiful!!!

 We drove through Jackson Hole.  The Tetons were amazing.

 BUFFALO!

THat is all.  Back to school and back to the gym this week!

intense camping in tents.

Moab and Goblin Valley Round 2.
School wrapped up and we headed out to the desert for another mountain biking/hiking adventure.
Amazing friends, hilarious adventures, sweet biking, cool hiking, and overall goodtimes... it was a memorable weekend in the desert.

Packed up and ready to go!  The essentials: bikes and tents.

Friends around the campfire as the full moon rose in Moab.

The focal point of the weekend was Marco's birthday!!
We had an impromptu hike up to "Delicate Arch" with an amazing picnic and ended up spending a couple hilarious hours up there snapping pics and making friends.

Chelsea and Megan at our amazing picnic.

The sunset skyline

 Attempting to look cool under the arch.

 There was randomly a photography class going on where the teacher "painted" the arch with light... So I took advantage of being in the right place at the right time!! It looks totally unreal!
"F11 Jeff!!!" being yelled down the canyon sparked hilarity.

 THE LIZARD.  Coolest living thing we saw. (other than each other....)

 The non-living turtle on my new favourite ride in Moab!

 smiling allllllll week!!!!!!!!!

 Slickrock at sunset.  Keely's head in the sun and Marco catching up!

 YahoO!!

After many days of mountain biking in the sun, we headed to Goblin Valley for some slot canyon hiking.

 We found an amazing place to camp!

 The fire was throwing shadows.

 nightline

 this is love. haha!

 Tara!

 The slot canyon crew!! Keely, Marco, Marcus, Tara, and me.

 my favourite pic.

 KEELY!

 getting extreme

 Goodbye again desert. you are awesome.

fun from my phone

Since our trip to Moab/Goblin Valley time has flown by.
It's been a mixed bag of summer/winter conditions and it's been amazing to finally be home for a consistant amount of time.
Here's a bunch of pics from my phone..... since we are heading to Moab tomorrow I am anticipating some non-iphone pics to make up for the abundance of phone pics... but anyway - no matter the quality of the photo, the quality of fun still shines through!
GOLFING - first round of the season was.... hilarious.

 CLOSING DAY AT PARK CITY.
Chelsea, Trevor, and Ted came to town to close down park city and have some goooood times.  THe day started with these amazing breakfast sandwiches made by trevor!

 OH CANADA> The return of the denim one-piece.  and a chicken.

 love these ladies

 we know how to DANCE!

 Marco came back from WINNING ARCTIC MAN AGAIN, and we went touring straight off the plane.

 Marcus led the way...

 And we ended up having a ridiculously amazing powder run.

 THen, winter came back.
It was awesome! Nothing better than a great day skiing with friends!

 One day at Snowbird and one day at Brighton - both were awesome.  So much powder, so little time!

 AND then summer came back again!

 While the sun was out, I was cramming for finals.
3 finals, 1 day, and a huge cup of Silver Bean!

 FRESHMAN YEAR IS OVER!! And I didn't gain the "freshman 15"! woohoo!
This was the reward: 5am wakeup, sunrise bootpack up "Superior," destination: suicide chute.

 The bootpack actually wasnt bad at all!

 Our tracks.....

 Almost there....

 beautiful white spines....

 anddddddd the view from the top!

 YEAH!

 What a great way to end the school year and start the SUMMER!!

:)