canyonlands

It was time to get away from the daily hustle and head down to Moab where it was 5-10 degrees warmer and a whole lot sunnier. Our plan was to head down early Saturday morning but I got really sick the day before and was hoping I'd sleep it off, but to my dismay, I was not able to get up early...

September 2011 Ahhhh, September. After getting my fill of the mountains, I was itching to get back to the desert and do some good old-fashioned car camping. Long nights, campfires, good food and good friends. How can you go wrong? For this trip we decided to up the ante a bit from the usual...

Greetings again, and welcome to the third episode of the Great Western Expedition of 2011. Today, we head for The Maze. We have a framed map of Canyonlands hanging on the angled ceiling above our bed. It's been there ten years. That's how long I've been looking at the area called The Land of...

The expedition continues. We head into the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park to take on Elephant Hill and camp at the Devil's Garden. The beginning of the Elephant Hill trail. It doesnt begin easy, as there is a difficult climb up from the parking lot. We had met up with a...

May 2011 I probably go on more than my fair share of camping and backpacking trips, but as my wife, audraiam , says, ''you have a passion, so go do it". The only sad thing about it is that I rarely get to bring her with me when I go. It's not all bad though, it's definitely nice to have her at...

September 10-11, 2011 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO The White Rim Trail seems to be the one I just can’t complete. I’ve been wanting to for years, but it just never seems to happen. The first big issue for me is getting a permit to camp along the trail (yes, I know I could probably...

April 2011 From the moment I first read Desert Solitaire, I knew I had to go to The Maze. It's a short chapter of that book and Abbey really just scratched the surface of what was out in this 'Terra Incognita'. A night at the Maze overlook followed by a pretty intense rappel/hike down into The...

I went down to the Moab area with lostlandscapes and another friend over this past weekend. After the nice weather and conditions over my New Years trip to the Vermilion Cliffs, I was jonesing for more desert goodness. We left Salt Lake pretty late on Friday afternoon and didn't get onto the...