Copperfield Expedition, Destination Kolob

For a few months the plan for Memorial Day weekend was to backpack to Kolob with our friends David and Britni, however as the day approached the weather was not looking like it would cooperate. So we threw around a bunch of ideas, none of which really interested us, and instead we stuck with our original plan. Friday we had the day off work and headed to St. George to visit family, we ate good food, made jewlery which was really fun, and played around snow canyon. It was saturday morning that we ventured onto the Kolob backpacking trail, we had thought it would only be 6 miles to our campsite so I thought thats not too far lets bring chips, and peanut butter M&M's and a block of cheese you get the idea, however 6 miles soon became 9. I will have to say the extra goodies were totally worth it though! The whole hike in was so beautiful the red rock with the green everywhere it was breathtaking. The next day we went on a 8 mile day hike to try and find Chasm Lake, this was no ordinary hike as there was no trail to where we were headed, lot's of river crossings back and forth, and then we wound up climbing up a mountain where you had to use your hands to hold onto the roots and weeds that were growing on it just to pull yourself up. Once we got up we had to skirt along the side which still had tons of weeds only to find that we had taken the wrong way up. At this point we were burnt out and our water was out so Chasm Lake will have to wait for another day. The whole trip was great, good friends, good food, fun hikes, and best of all the weather totally cooperated!