Plan a Zion trip with Claude Code docs when a storm floods the Narrows

PartialEvidence: Described by posterPosted Apr 13, 2026Last checked Nov 5, 2026

Claude Code built eight Zion trip docs for Aaron Fulkerson; the Narrows hike could not happen after a storm, but backups worked.

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Plan a backcountry trip to Zion for me and my son. We care about history, archaeology, geology and peculiar characters. Build interlinked documents for itinerary and logistics, ranked hikes with backups, river-flow conditions against the Narrows closure threshold, emergency facts, food, checklists, deep geology/history and campfire stories. Save them for offline use.

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Goal: Build an offline Zion trip library with ranked backups if weather kills the headline hike.

Questions to ask me first:
- Who is going, and what permits or campsites are already booked?
- What topics should the reading docs cover?
- What river-flow threshold closes your key canyon hike?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Travelers: [NAMES / AGES]
- Dates and permits: [DETAILS]
- Interests: [GEOLOGY / HISTORY / STORIES]
- Closure threshold: [CFS / RULE]

Rules:
- Produce separate linked documents, not one giant dump.
- Rank hikes with researched backups per day.
- Track conditions against the closure threshold.
- Keep history docs regional so they still work if routes change.

Checkpoint: Show the document outline and hike ranking method before writing full prose.

If you get stuck: If a permit detail is missing, ask me rather than inventing confirmation numbers.

Verify before you finish: Every primary hike has at least one backup and a conditions note.

Output: An Obsidian-ready set of trip docs plus a short how-to-read-offline note.

Done when: We can hike an alternate plan without losing the educational materials.

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Aaron Fulkerson spent two sessions with Claude Code (a local setup called Exo) planning a Zion trip with son Roe that originally included a top-down Narrows hike with permits. Claude Code produced eight interlinked Obsidian documents: day-by-day itinerary, stack-ranked hikes with backups, conditions vs a 120 CFS Narrows closure threshold, quick facts, food guide, checklists, plus deep geology/history and campfire stories. A storm on day two flooded the rivers, so they skipped the Narrows. The ranked backups paid off: LaVerkin Creek was the third-ranked backup, and they hiked Hop Valley with twenty-plus flooded crossings, then explored Buckskin Gulch. The region history docs still applied to the landscape they actually walked.

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What went wrong: Claude Code's plan and backups were useful, but a storm flooded the Narrows so the original hike could not happen.

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Posted: Apr 13, 2026 by Aaron Fulkerson
Last checked: Nov 5, 2026
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https://aaronfulkerson.com/2026/04/13/what-claude-code-built-for-my-son-and-me/

Context: Partial because the original Narrows plan was canceled by weather. Self-reported.