Buckhorn Wash

When we went to visit my family in Utah we talked Stoney (Hannah’s Dad) into taking us to the Buckhorn Wash. For those of you who do not know Stoney he is a wonderful, kind, quiet man who knows the back country of Utah better than anyone. He’s like an off road atlas.

He agreed to take Eric, Hannah, and our friend Sean Gibson an hour and a half South East of Provo to see the Buckhorn Wash and the Wedge. As you can see from the photos the country was incredible. We were all alone and surrounded by red rock cliffs, Indian Petra glyphs, dinosaur foot prints and beautiful views.

Stoney took us first to the wedge where everyone scared Hannah by throwing large rocks off of cliffs. I think we counted 12 seconds before we could hear the rocks drop. The wedge reminds me of a slightly smaller version of the Grand Canyon. In a way it is better than the Grand Canyon because there aren’t any tourist, just eagles and chipmunks.

Stoney took his GPS unit and led us to a dinosaur foot print. That whole country is full of dinosaur remains. It was unbelievably fun to follow the GPS to the foot print. We all agreed that Eric’s brother David should have been there. In fact every time we go to southern Utah, we wish David was there to explain things….we would also enjoy his company : )


We stopped for lunch and decided to break out the old Red Ryder BB gun. Stoney and Hannah love to throw sticks in streams and use them for target practice. This time we only found cow pies. As it turns out, cow pies are just as fun to shoot as sticks and make great substitute clay pigeons.

As you can tell we’re running a little behind with the BLOG. Eric will try get us caught up before he starts his business trips.

And now your moment of ZEN……

Yes I'm holding a cow pie, but there are a bunch of leaves underneath so it's not touching my hands...I just had to make it clear that I don't go around touching things like that with my bare hands.

We love you all.

Eric and Hannah