St. George Our spring break trip to St. George, Utah
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A snowshoe trip hike with Alison and Wendy around Gold Creek | | We stomped out an area with our snowshoes, so we could sit down and eat |
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Some blue sky peeking out! | | Skunk cabbage blooming at the Mercer Slough area |
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Kenny on ride to McMinville | | At the museum of flight and space |
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Walking around Chambers Bay, the golf course in Tacoma. It's the site of an old sand and gravel quarry. | | Some great views before the rains came in |
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Peter with a bubble made of homemade slime | | Our trip to Nevada and Utah. This is at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. They had some crazy wide chairs, designed for some very heavy people. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4666.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4668.jpg) | We saw these bighorn sheep off the side of the road. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4671.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4679.jpg) | | | This bridge is left over from a scene in Star Trek |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2771.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2776.jpg) | It is kind of other-worldy looking | | A view of Elephant Arch |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4695.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4698.jpg) | | | At the Fire Wave walk |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4710.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4711.jpg) | The actual Fire Wave rock. I think it's lots more impressive with the right lighting | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4716.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4713.jpg) | A chunk of petrified wood | | Massive boulders of a funny composite rock |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4722.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4724.jpg) | | | Making "sand waterfalls" |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4737.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4739.jpg) | Some of the petroglyphs at Atlatl Rock | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4756.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4761.jpg) | Two little baby bighorn sheep | | In St George - Pioneer Park, a great place to visit and jungle gym for kids to climb around |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4768.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4769.jpg) | This was an outstanding place to play hide and seek | | Kenny, mid-hide |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_20170410_142327521b.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4770.jpg) | I've never seen this street sign before - no right-hand u-turn | | On top of Shinob Kibe, which has an Aviation Navigation Arrow (how pilots navigated before they had radio, etc), a cave, AND an old indian medicine wheel, marked with rocks in a circle. We found them all. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4773.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4774.jpg) | At the navigation arrow | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4777.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2796.jpg) | The old indian medicine wheel. It took us a long time to find. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2800.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4779.jpg) | The view from the inside of the cave. It was a little creepy, right near the edge. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2807.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4784.jpg) | | | At Snow Canyon State Park. That place was gorgeous. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4796.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4797.jpg) | | | You can see how the lava flowed here |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4816.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4798.jpg) | Along the Hidden Pinyon trail | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4819.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4828.jpg) | | | This funny marking in the sandstone is, I think, half of an embedded stone. The embedded stone is layered like an onion. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4829.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4833.jpg) | Here's some of the stones that haven't yet been worn down | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4840.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4842.jpg) | Kenny climbed up to the pioneer name markers | | A layer of volcanic rock over the white and red sandstone |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4843.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2824.jpg) | | | The entrance to a cave |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4848.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4850.jpg) | | | The cave entrance, from above |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4853.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4858.jpg) | St George has some serious pickleball courts | | A monster WalMart distribution center north of St. George. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4859.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4861.jpg) | A interesting concrete bench design at the Red Cliff campground | | Dinosaur footprints in the area |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4869.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4875.jpg) | On an elevated, easily defensible hill were the ruins of an Anasazi village. | | In 1958, a Gary Cooper movie called They Came To Cordura was filmed here. The ruins of the set are still here. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4879.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4881.jpg) | | | The St George Splash Pad, a water park. Really well designed, with a little creek running through it and lots of sandstone boulders. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4883.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4885.jpg) | One guy laid across the creek and blocked the flow of water, causing the water level to rise in the "upstream" areas. | | These outdoor tables in the park had outlets to plug your laptop into! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_2841.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2017/04-08-2017-stgeorge/gallery_img_4886.jpg) | We walked around Las Vegas on our last day. This is at the Bellagio. | | Unfortunately it was too windy for the fountain show at the Bellagio |
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| ![](/Pictures/2017/04-15-2017/gallery_img_4887.jpg) | | | McNeil Island, the prison island west of Tacoma | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |