Fat Man's Misery

Me and Mika spent the weekend (from Thursday to Saturday) down in St. George with a few friends. We originally wanted to hike the Subway, but weren't able to get permits. So instead we decided to do Fat Man's Misery. 

On Thursday me, Mika, and Maddi drove down to St. George. We stopped in Cedar City and saw the movie Neighbors. (the movie wasn't nearly as funny as I thought it would be). So after the movie, we arrived at our hotel super late and just went straight to sleep.

We spent Friday morning swimming in the pool and attempting to Go-Pro ourselves swimming. After that Mika went golfing with our brother-in-law, while me and Maddi went shopping. Then Joanna and Reese made it in to town and we all went out for dinner to a Mexican restaurant. After that we went and played cards in the hotel room.

Saturday was our hiking day. We got up at about four to get ready and get headed to the hike. It was about a hours drive from the hotel.

Fat Man's Misery is a slot canyon with rappels, and a lot of gross water that you have to swim and wade through. There was even a few natural water slides.  

 Maddi, Joanna, and Me

 Reece trying to catch a gross little frog.

 Doing a little rappelling.

So here is the thing, Fat Man's Misery is such an amazing, fun, and pretty hike, but it is SO easy to get lost. The trail isn't marked very well at all. It's hard to find the slot, obviously then easy to follow your way through it, and then extremely hard to find your way back after exiting the slot. Luckily when we were trying to get to the slot on the way in, there was another group that directed us where to go. The guy had done it a few times before, so he also pointed out some major rocks/mountains to look for to find your way in and back out. This hike is supposed to usually take about 8 hours......and it took us 14! We barley found the road before it got dark.

If you have an extra 40 minutes, you can watch this little movie, Fat Man's Misery Canyon, from our trip. I know it's long, but you will see me ridiculously fall multiple times and Joanna swim across a pool while screaming, "Help me!". Trust me, it's totally hilarious.

I wish I would have taken more pictures. It is really such a pretty canyon. I have a few pictures that Maddi took and then sent me from her nice camera, but for some reason, my computer won't let me upload them.