Mammoth Creek

At about 8:00p.m. Friday night we decided we would go up to Mammoth Creek, Utah early Saturday morning. Nick's mom and dad called us at about 9:00 a.m. to tell us the highway we needed to take was shut down due to snow. We had to take this very long detour through Panguitch. The rodes were icy and very slick. Luckily we took Julie and Carl's Jeep Commander.

We tried and tried to get a hold of Nick's parents and could not get through. We even started watching the side of the rode in case the got into an accident. We reached Mammoth Creek at about 4:00p.m. Tried to drive to the cabin and there was two much snow. About 3feet to much. Again we couldn't get a hold of Nick's mom or dad and we did not know what to do.

We went to the only parking area in which we got our vehicle stuck. We waited and waited. Nick finally found someone who would snow mobile him to the cabin. On the we we found his parents stuck in the snow. They had been stuck for 6 hours. They had to hire a guy to dig a path to their cabin. They told us it would be done in about 45 minutes. It wasn't.

We had to sit in the car with two hungry kids for 31/2 hours. I think Nick only had to get out of the car once to let out a scream or two. We had left at 8:45 a.m. and finally got to the cabin at 8:00p.m. that night. I told Nick that is what we get for being spontaneous.

After we finally got settled into the cabin we did enjoy snow-mobiling, making snowmen and sitting by the warm fire. Avery still hates wearing all of those snow close. On are way home we stopped to see my grandma in Beaver Utah. She loves visiting the kids and giving them rides on her walker.