April 10, 2021: After flying into Grand Junction, CO and making the fast drive west to Moab, Jane and I meet up with Lindsey, who has blazed her way from Baltimore by way of Salt Lake City. After dinner, we speed up to Dead Horse Point State Park, only catching the last bit of sunset on the canyon walls.
April 11, 2021: Jane and I return to Dead Horse Point for an early sunrise before returning home to have breakfast and meet up with Lindsey. After our morning at Corona Arch, we grab ice cream in town (big mistake…) and return to Canyonlands NP in the afternoon. Jane starts vomiting at the tail end of a short but very exposed, steep, and isolated hike to the False Kiva. Lindsey makes the final climb to the Kiva’s alcove (verdict: behind its current chain-link fence, the views aren’t worth the effort - an unfortunate result of vandalism at the archeological site), while I help Jane stagger back to the car. In typical Jane fashion, she insists that she feels fine while we watch her rapidly deteriorate on the ride back to town. She is in pretty rough shape by the time we reach the motel, but recovers with gradual fluid intake over the course of the night.
April 13, 2021: After a lovely day at Arches, we return to Canyonlands to see Mesa Arch and take a walk to Grand View Point. Back in town, we eat lunch at the same place we got ice cream two days earlier (why oh why?!). It’s my turn to be miserable, although my symptoms are a lot more vague and persistent than Jane’s food poisoning episode (indeed, I’m not fully myself until well after our return to Boston); Lindsey goes out to explore on her own.
April 16, 2021: In between Longbow Arch and Delicate Arch, we trek out to Canyonlands one final time, photographing the Green River Overlook and taking a brief walk to a pair of Anazasi granaries near Aztec Butte.
