Monday, July 26, 2010

My own Galaxy Quest

Well, this 24th of July weekend a group of friends and I decided that we would go and celebrate the saints coming to Utah by going and putting ourselves through the same heat and misery that they endured. We decided we would go out into the desert and camp.
So, anyone remember the Tim Allen move Galaxy Quest? Parts of it were filmed in Goblin Valley. So, we went and recreated our own battle scenes. The blue ball was our constant companion. We kicked it all over the valley, from goblin to goblin, person to person. It was there for better and for worse. I'm disappointed because my camera ran out of batteries after just a few hours of the trip. The fun that I wasn't able to document was our trip to the Green River. Playing in the river, and shooting the potato gun. Then hiding in the river with the potato gun when the ranger came and started snooping around at the source of the very loud booms.
Also, the next morning we hiked an amazing and absolutely spectacular slot canyon named Little Wild Horse Canyon. We kept searching around ever corner for a little wild horse but never found one. However, at one point we did come upon this group coming into the canyon as we were on our way out. We tried to warn them of the flash flood that we had just manuevered away from. As we Jackie Chaned up the canyon walls narrowly missing our own castastrophy. We felt the need to warn any others in the area. This family would not listen to us, I'm afraid they perished in the powerful eroding powers of a flash flood. They were eroded right off the face of this planet. It was tragic. The End