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Continuing on with trip reports from this spring..... So on Friday, April 13th myself and a few coworkers/friends left Monticello fairly early in the morning towards highway 95 past Blanding with the destination being the little known Hammond Canyon. From 95 we headed up a road that runs from...

Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 7 Friday, October 12, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Sometime after midnight the skies finally opened up and it started raining. There was a little lightning and thunder, too. It would rain harder and softer but remained pretty...

Day 1, Thur. 2/23 I left my house at 4am on a late February Thur. morning and pointed the hood of the Jeep towards the Comb Ridge-Cedar Mesa area. As usual that time of year and that time of morning, icy roads on the drive from Spanish Fork to Helper made for slow going. But by 10am I had...

Late the afternoon of Wed. July 17th I picked up my old friend Tim on the way out of town. Our destination, the Henry Mountains. But due to the late start, we wouldn’t make the Henries before dark, so set our sights on a spot near Goblin Valley that we call Hippy Camp. Tim and I have been...

After finishing up a chainsaw project for my work at Potash near Moab, myself and a few co-workers decided to take a small trip to Comb Ridge for our few days off. I had been to Comb Ridge before and I was anxious to get back to see some familiar places and some new ones. We left our basecamp...

So...I had been working on a conservation corps based out of Monticello, UT from mid March to the end of June so needless to say this will be the first of many trip reports from the southern Utah area. It was my first off time I had since I had completed the first few weeks of training so I was...

Friday - Sunday, June 8-10, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO This weekend I met my friend Philippe and his wife on their annual trip to the Southwest from France. This year we planned a day to do a little hiking and exploring on Cedar Mesa (Last year we spent a day hiking in the...

Saturday & Sunday, April 21-22, 2012 The Original Trip report on ADVENTR.CO I was originally supposed to go camping this weekend with Amanda, but at the last minute she was unable to go with me, so I had to figure out something else to do. I sent an email to Marty to see if he was free on...

For the first of a hopefully annual tradition, brocation, my brothers and I decided to head to a part of the state none of us had ever been, Cedar Mesa. After a long drive from Hurricane we needed a place to get out and stretch our legs. I researched the Irish Slots and decided that we could...

Took a trip down to Cedar Mesa with my 5 yr old boy and a buddy. We hit up The Citadel, Perfect Kiva in Slickhorn Canyon, The Seven Towers, and a site that my buddy and I had stumbled upon about 2 yrs ago when we were hiking accross the mesa top to the head of a canyon. I think that the site we...

March 2011 If things had gone better I would be writing this trip report in 4-5 days from now but once again, the weather wins. Read on. My wife, Audra, is in school working on her MBA so we decided to take an extended vacation over her spring break. I've been going on trips right and left and...

The Maze and the Mesa | Day 9 Sunday, April 17, 2011 The last day of our 9 day trip had finally arrived and I was looking forward to getting home and taking a real shower. We wanted to make this a shorter day so that we wouldn’t be getting home too late. We broke down camp, had a quick...

The Maze and the Mesa | Day 8 Saturday, April 16, 2011 On Saturday we woke up again to yet another cold morning, but thankfully not quite as cold as the previous day. Originally we were planning on staying in our current campsite for the last night, but at the last minute we changed our plans...

The Maze and the Mesa | Day 7 Friday, April 15, 2011 When we woke up on Friday morning it was about 26 degrees out…the coldest morning so far on the trip! We had another quick breakfast and then took off for the Government Trailhead. Soon we were hiking across Pollys Pasture until we reached...

The Maze and the Mesa | Day 6 Thursday, April 14, 2011 After another very windy and cold night, Jared and I had some breakfast and headed over to the Kane Gulch Ranger station again. We wanted to make this an easy day since we had done a lot of hiking all week, so we decided to go check out...

The Maze and the Mesa | Day 5 Wednesday, April 13, 2011 We were up before sunrise on Wednesday for a quick breakfast so that we could squeeze in a quick hike down into Sheiks Canyon before Dave would have to head back home. First up in Sheiks Canyon was the Yellow House Ruin. The roof beams...

This past October myself and a few friends had the pleasure of backpacking the Fish and Owl Canyons loop. The plan was to leave Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon the 12th (which was the day of the full moon) and head down the San Rafael Swell and camp at the mouth of Straight Wash and check out a...

Day 1. In early May, my friend Greg flew in from Pittsburgh for a week and we spent several days down in the Southeastern corner of Utah. I’d been reading alot of books about the Anasazi for the past few months and really wanted to get a chance to visit some ruins in the areas. We left early...

Trip report from last January to Cedar Mesa area. A buddy and I went down to the Cedar Mesa Area for a few days this past weekend. We ended up hitting upper South Mule Canyon and a few places along Comb Ridge. Weather was excellent with highs right around 50 and nightly lows in the teens. The...