Cathedral Gorge

In the areas surrounding Panaca here in Lincoln County there are at least 5 state parks. They are all easily within about an hours drive. Jake and I, being the lazy and tired homebodies that we are, haven’t done much sight seeing since we have lived here.  We have gone camping and fishing at the two state parks that have lakes. In fact the Lester family had a reunion at Echo Canyon state park a few years ago. That being said, we haven’t done a lot of sight seeing outside of those few occasions.  About a year ago (I think) Emily was down visiting and was hanging out with some of the friends she has made here. One day she came home late in the afternoon covered in mud. She told us she had been out at Cathedral Gorge and that it was so cool! I couldn’t believe that she had been there before us considering we lived about a mile away for more than two years. Anyway, a few months later, Jake’s parents and grandmas were visiting and decided they wanted to go out and see it.  We didn’t have a lot of time but we did get to wander around a little. Then last weekend my parent my parents and Emily came down and brought Ashton (my nephew). Sunday morning we went out to Cathedral Gorge and spent a lot of time roaming the caves and climbing the “mountains” of dirt. It is pretty cool out there and we took some pictures so I decided to share them.

Here is Ashton and Ethan stopping for a minute so we could take their picture. It was all we could do to get them to sit still when they just wanted to keep climbing.  

This is me and my mom posing in one of the first caves you come upon. It was pretty hot outside but once you get inside those caves it is cold!

Here is Ethan and Jake sitting by a cool rock (mud?) formation. You can’t see Ethan’s face very well but he definitely would have preferred to be running around.

   

You can’t tell from this picture but we are actually pretty high up considering right behind us is the top of the mountain. The boys loved climbing up so high. Ashton was much more careful (and a little nervous I think) than Ethan, who is totally fearless, and probably a little too young still, to realize that it would definitely hurt if he fell.

     

This last one is me and Emily still on top of the mountain waiting for everyone else to climb down 

We had a lot of fun, and Jake and I are hoping to go back once the house is done and spend the whole day exploring. Maybe take Ethan out for the morning and then get a babysitter for the afternoon when he starts to get tired and ornery!