Search results

August update time. Total: 70 Nights July 31 – August 1 | Crag Crest | 1 Night August 6 – 8 | Lost Trail Creek & Splains Gulch | 2 Nights August 14 – 15 | Powderhorn Lakes | 1 Night August 17 – 21 | Cedar Springs Campground, Green River Lakes & Slide Lake | 4 Nights August 27 –...

July update. Total: 60 Nights July 2 – 5 | Rico Mountains | 3 Nights July 9 – 10 | Miners Basin | 1 Night July 16 – 18 | Little Mill Creek & Lamphier Lake | 2 Nights July 23 – 24 | Mountaineer Creek | 1 Night Highline Stock Driveway Sunset by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr...

I use a couple of bags made by Moosetreks that are sold on Amazon, and they have worked well for the price. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/Moosetreks-Touring-Bikepacking-Commuting-Resistant/dp/B074XR4J8X I've found a number of different inexpensive options on Amazon. Another brand I've...

You can ready my full trip report here, in case that's helpful... https://adventr.co/2014/08/mount-whitney/

1. I usually just have a fleece, down jacket and rain/windbreaker in the mountains during the summer, and have never needed more than that. 2. I left my tent and gear in camp and then packed it up after coming down from the summit, and it seemed like most people do that. 3. I left at 4am from...

June update. Total: 53 Nights June 4-6 | Cedar Canyon & Markagunt Plateau | 2 June 12-13 | Coke Oven Creek | 1 June 18-20 | Ripple Creek Pass | 2 June 25-26 | Hahns Peak | 1 Ashdown Gorge Bend by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr Over The Edge by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr Green Truss Bridge...

Maybe I just know what you should expect when you buy a vehicle like a Jeep:

Really? Why do you say that? I have been driving at JK for over 10 years and have had no problems with either of the ones I've owned, and I put A LOT of miles on them, both on and off-road.

I just sent him a link to this thread...maybe he will chime in? I'm not sure if he wants to be found, so I'll leave that up to him.

Rick is still alive and here in GJ. That's the wrong Rick.

I can't tell you what water is going to be link at the end of June, but it was already very dry on Cedar Mesa this spring and we haven't had much, if any rain, since then. I suspect water will be tough to come by, especially since we've been breaking heat records this week on the Colorado Plateau!

I stayed in the creek instead of following the trails through the poison ivy.

May update. Total: 47 Nights Apr 30 - May 2 | Yampa Plateau | 2 May 7 - 8 | Robideau Creek | 1 May 14 - 15 | Ute Mountain Tribal Park | 1 May 16 - 17 | Petrified Forest Wilderness | 1 May 18 - 20 | Joe Skeen CG | 2 May 28 - 31 | Book Cliffs | 3 Ruple Point Sunrise by Randy Langstraat, on...

I think any place that requires the use of WAG bags should have a place to drop them off when you are done, since otherwise most people will drop them in the first garbage can they come across. I know the Elephant Hill trailhead it The Needles has a garbage can that is only for used WAG bags.

This might be the biggest one I've seen... Big Red by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

I thought this article from Moab was interesting, especially with more and more places requiring WAG bags. https://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_ba33ad14-b931-11eb-8d0e-139c67d1a485.html

I get it. Those campsites are used every night (from spring through fall, at least) by groups of people...it wouldn't take long for there to be a ring of catholes circling each campsite about 200 feet out.

This is a large boulder and those petroglyphs are huge! Big Boulder Panel by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

I think having only 4 campsites in upper Salt Creek keeps it less-peopled. We only passed a couple people on the trail over 4 days last month, which was was a much better experience than when we were in upper Grand Gulch a few weeks earlier and must have seen over 100 people.

I was there at the beginning of April. Todie was dry. We found one small nasty pool of water in Todie Canyon that I would have only used in an emergency, so we continued on and found a pool that was slightly better that the Pourover. Coyote Canyon was flowing and good. We didn't stop at...