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On to my entry.
Looking back I found out that I was at The Wave 10 years ago on May 20, 2012.
The Wave is a super cool rock formation in northern Arizona.
Because of it's delicate nature there is a lottery drawing for the tickets. So it is quite difficult. 20 people get tickets and about 1,000 apply each day [1]. 
Here I am in my cool glasses.
Speaking of cool. Here is
The hike to the wave is 3 miles one way. And as you can see it is sand and rock. There was a paper that someone in the group had that had pictures of formations and told I us to turn here or there. Most hikes I have been on have a trail to follow, this one had directions.
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Then you get to The Wave and are greeted with this incredible marbled sandstone.
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He got one of my favorite pictures of his on this trip.
The most memorable part of this trip is that the whole group, 6 of us, got incredibly lost.
Here is my original post Getting lost in the desert from 2018 .
Here is the story... and it has a happy ending. We all made it out alive and I made it to work on time.
Being a working professional I was the first to leave the party as I had hike back to my car and then drive 5.5 hours to Mesa to get to work on Monday morning. I left the group while it was light out. However I didn't have the map Parker led us in with and got lost pretty early into my return trip. We had walkie talkies and I called for help. They were too far away. I wandered in the desert for a little bit until I found "the boobs" and knew that my friends would have to pass them to get to the car. I was also out of water and it was a hot day. To conserve energy I sat at the base of "the boobs" and called for help on the walkie talkie and as night approached I sent out light signals with my flashlight.
I kept calm for a while, the darker it grew the more anxious I became. I knew that Scotty was getting star shots so he was still out there. Finally, Parker and Austin found me. It was nice to have others and we could work together, which we did. It was now very dark and so we used Austin's super flashlight and Parker had the map. Being that there was not a trail to follow and the landmarks were too hard to see in the dark, even with Austin's flashlight we were lost for many hours. Parker had about a third of a 16oz bottle of water left. We rationed it between the three of us. I vividly remember thinking that we should just lay down and sleep on the sandstone and wake up in the morning and find our way. It was a warm evening and I was tired. We had started the day at 9:30am hiking in the slot canyon. Eventually we did sit down to rest and strategize. We also wandered around for many hours. Miraculously as we passed an area that reminded me of something funny someone said and that made me remember a turn. By God's guidance and help we made it over the desolate sandstone back to the parking lot.
The next problem was that Parker and Austin had come with Scotty, Stacy and Toni and didn't have keys to Scotty's car, so if I left they would be sitting in the parking lot waiting. We were also very worried about the other group getting lost too. Parker and Austin sat in the front seat of my Avalon and I took the back seat so I could sleep and get a little rest before my long drive. I was able to get a little sleep, it was very fitful as I worried about my brother. At about 2:00am I was woken up by Parker letting me know that they had made walkie talkie connection with the other group and were going to go find them with Austin's awesome flashlight and bring them back. What a relief. It was a miracle that the walkie talkies connected that far away. I can't remember the exact time that I left (probably around 3:00 am) but I was able to make it to work in Tempe by 8:00 am. I am sure I was a sight, as I had not slept really and didn't shower or change after being out wandering around southern Utah for two days.
Scotty got his amazing picture and we all got a story of being lost in the desert.
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