in all my travels in all my hiking adventures there's one thing that I've
never done and that's camp solo if you love travel nature and the outdoors then
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ready for adventure my camping trip began with a drive into the Red Cliffs
Conservation Area in Utah welcome to Red Cliffs this is an absolutely beautiful
place in Utah right near the entrance to Zion National Park just a little bit
outside st. George Utah and right now I'm doing something I've never done
gorgeous it's just like mind-blowing and there's absolutely nobody out here I
will be setting up a camp here in this really primitive campsite
the Red Cliffs is part of a conservation area and have some beautiful hiking and
off-road trails I chose it for its beauty and its remoteness there are 12
campsites here and no amenities meaning you need to bring everything you need
and leave with everything you brought ok so this is my campsite it's 8:15 I've got my
tent set up there as you guys can see the Sun is just starting to go down I'm
just taking some pictures right now because it's just so beautiful but so
far I'm having a really good time and it's obviously still light so we'll see
how I feel and it's very dark so I didn't bring a lot of stuff with me I
did bring a chair so that I could enjoy a beautiful sunset and I brought an
assortment of snacks because that's what I always bring chocolate banana peanut
butter salmon jerky chips I also brought Softy and little panda
because I did need some friends on this trip I know I'm just enjoying the sunset
and it is absolutely beautiful this is just such an amazing spot I'm so glad
that I was able to get a spot here and to get a spot here I actually just had
to send an email to the BLM office here in Utah right now I'm gonna enjoy my
assortment of snacks and then later on and we're gonna take some pictures of
those stars
when I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro I learned a lot of things about what I
like when you go camping one of them is having water to wash my face so I
brought a big five-gallon thing in my car and that's what I'm gonna do right
now
okay so the Sun just started to really dip down over the mountains and you guys
have to see these colors
so here we are in my tent and it's about 11 o'clock it's so beautiful out there
so many stars it's really hot though so I'm just trying to get some sleep right
now and I'm gonna turn in for the night hopefully get a couple hours here if I
don't wake up sweltering and I'll check in with you in the morning. Good morning
guys it's about 6:30 I did not get much sleep last night as you came actually in
my car I moved to my car like 1:00 in the morning because it was just way way
way too hot in my tents I actually just like opened the back of my car and you
can't tell now because I have like stuff everywhere but I just slept in the back
on my mattress and it was pretty comfortable um I got like a couple hours
on and off of sleep but um I'm gonna go hit this trail that's right here and
then we're gonna do a little bit of off-roading oh no not a terrible solo
camping experience I wasn't ever scared which is good which is the one thing
that I thought that I was gonna have a hard time with so I am really happy that
I made it through the night without like pooping my pants from being scared but
not the best sleeping experience for sure
so right now I'm on this trail called the Babylon Arch trail it just goes
straight from where I actually camped last night and it goes through all this
beautiful Red Rock since the Sun just came up there's actually just these
beautiful orange glows coming over the rock so it's really really pretty
this conservation area exists to protect critical species and habitats like the
desert tortoise
the desert is full of sandstone arches unique rock formations wildflowers and
small desert creatures like rabbit snake and hawk there are more than a hundred
miles of hiking trails and great access to the Virgin River
so right behind me is Babylon Arch as you can see it's very pretty
I'm gonna stop here take some pictures and there's also some other little
arches around here and some little caves and after this I'm gonna hop down to the
river and cool off my feet
a few miles from camp is the Virgin River which can be accessed by a
four-wheel drive vehicle atv horseback or on foot
to get here you'll need a high clearance vehicle and four-wheel drive it's a
great place to cool off on a hot day and here you'll see the towering black and
white lava cliffs which are a popular home for cliff swallows
if you guys can see all these little mud nest these are actually bird nests
what a way to end my first solo camping trip right here in the Virgin River
cooling off after a pretty hot night if you guys have tips or tricks that you
want to share with me please let me know in the comments down below don't forget
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