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I went to Goblin Valley with my friend Sandra Temples in 1996. It was a really windy trip, even to light the coleman stove was a chore. I took my two-man tent that was all mesh on top so we could look out and watch the satellites and bats and all the desert has to offer at night but the wind was blowing so horribly that we were being covered in sand so i was forced to put the rain flap on. But all it did was make noise like hanging a plastic sack out the window of a moving car and we were getting no sleep so I was forced to take it off and deal with the sand. The next morning we were covered in sand, literally 3 or 4 inches of sand had filled up the tent with us.
Goblin Valley totally rocks for day hikes and rock climbs. Lots of cool shadows from all the hoodoos. We, of course, got a flat tire on the way home. I say that, only because, every trip I've ever been on with the Julanders we've had a flat tire. Once we made it all the way back to the Roy exit when BAM but once it was in the middle of the Arizona desert with coyotes calling with only the light of a candle to see by and on the side of the road in Zion and and and... Luckily on most of my trips but this one I've not carried on that tradition... or curse. Can't wait to go back to Goblin Valley one day soon.

This page has been updated with a bunch of images from a trip back to Goblin Valley with my sister and my kids in the summer of 2007. We had planned to camp for a night but when we got there on the way home from Zion it was so hot that hiking and climbing around for about an hour in the Valley of Goblins was all we needed. What a great place though. I highly recommend it.


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