BOYS TRIP - SOUTHERN UTAH

Here's what you're looking at from the overlook, the barren badlands of Southern Utah. Quite the contrast of the well known red rocks.

Here's some photos around Factory Butte

We enjoyed breakfast at the overlook just taking in the simple beauty of the landscape in solitude because once the sun came up the crowd scattered like roaches. They'd gotten their content for the gram and were on to the next influencer spot to keep their stories buzzing for the IG monster.

We had a jam packed day ourselves though since we only had a few days. We started off heading down a long dirt road to try and find the famous Bentonite Hills that look like red and white striped gumdrops. I did steal the SD card out of son's phone and was able to get some video of this area and honestly it was very underwhelming. I think it was because we were there in the late morning and the light wasn't ideal, blue hour would be the time to visit.

Then we headed into Capital Reef National Park for a short hike in a slot canyon (I didn't take many photos, sorry), then we went to the visitor center for the famous berry pie, but they ran out like an hour before so we decided to head out and do the Cathedral Valley Loop and hit the Temple of the Sun for sunset and some milky way. We came in from the West and you get into some pretty high elevations, which still happened to have snow and we got to a point where the snow covered the road so much that it was impassable. Bugger! We had to drive back an hour the way we came to get around to Temple of the Sun. Now we were racing the setting sun and a pretty good rainstorm.

We made in just in time to eat a quick dinner and capture some awesome storm clouds over Temple of the Sun.

Since we had heavy clouds, there wasn't much chance for milky way photos but I left my camera out on a timelapse and we drove out the park boundaries (no primitive camping in the national park) and slept in the car for the night. It was the worst night of attempted sleep ever. We were too tired to throw out our tents so we thought we'd just sleep in the car. Worst. Mistake. Ever. 4 guys in a Toyota Highlander just doesn't work out. The sunrise the next morning turned out ok though.

I've rambled on far too long on this post so if you've made it this far, be sure to give me a follow.

I'll make another post breaking down what happened on the 3rd day when I lost my phone.