On the weekend of September 26, 2009, Dave took a group of work friends down the Narrows. After three trips down the Narrows, Gretta stayed in St. George. David's guests included Paul Larson, a fellow ward member and head of the film program at the University of Utah.
Other members of the group were Gudrun, a social worker who works with Dave at Intermountain Health Care and her friend Mark, a lawyer, and their friends, Cliff and Olga, documentary film makers from San Francisco. The film makers had been to as many exotic places as our Michael, including filming primitive tribes in the Amazon and veiled women in Afghanistan.
The Narrows hike included all the highlights that Dave had experienced at least half a dozen times before. The group started out walking along shallow hills surrounding the Virgin River...
then plunging deeper into the canyon...
and hiking so far inside steep rock walls that there was no greenery...
climbing around the waterfall...
visiting Big Springs...
and, finally, emerging at the bottom of the Narrows, totally exhausted.
Gretta enjoyed the peace of the St. George house.
She also took a break from work to walk around Coral Canyon, finding little spots of beauty on her walk.
Later, Gretta went outside and caught the splendor of the desert sunset.
Here's one more view of the reason for the weekend:
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