canyonlands

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Last November I took a day trip down to Fable Valley in search of a specific pictograph panel. I found a lot of cool stuff that day, but not the panel I was looking for. I returned again with Marty this morning to search for...

Hiking in Salt Creek Canyon, Utah the FIRST time and what WE learned... September 14, 2013 at 11:26pm Before I tell our story I have to give a HUGE shout out to Nick....I found his blog on Salt Creek on New Year's Day 2013 and after years of dreaming in general of doing something like this...

At the risk of being shut down by heavy rain or washed-out roads, I took the pups for an overnighter in the San Rafael Desert. There were storm clouds visible as I hit the gravel road outside of Green River but the sky cleared up as I made my way south. Ninemile Wash wasn't flowing as I'd...

@Chris Mosbacker and I made plans for Labor Day weekend to hike and camp in the Moab area. I arrived early Friday (which was also my 37th birthday) and hiked around solo, while Chris was planning on showing up late that evening. I had no fixed agenda--just a list of options to choose from--and...

May 2006 My wife and me planned another flight with Tim Martin from Moab, Canyonlands Airfield down the Colorado River to the Coyote Buttes and back again. Fortunately Tim could do that for us. So we started early in the morning. My Lady had a new digital SRL, I was still holding on my trusted...

Saturday, June 15, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO I spent today showing my family around a few areas in the Moab area on a day trip into Utah. I didn't take out my camera all day until we arrived at the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands in the late afternoon. The clouds...

Ok, so this trip report isn't particularly adventurous or out of the way, but I did get some cool photos. Friday the 5th my brother Justin and I drove down to the Goblin Valley area. We camped on this BLM spot I always go to, by some cool Hoodoos. I woke up at sunrise to see if anything good...

Wasn't sure where to post this, under "backpacking" or "everything else" since it was a combined trip so apologies in advance. I'm only 4 months late in talking about this trip. The following jaunt spanned the end of March and ended in early April - typically a bit before the spring run-off...

I've been pretty sidetracked since finishing my Boulder to Moab hike several weeks ago so I haven't had a chance to post much about my trip. But, I'm finally getting to that point. I ended up doing the videos before doing the actual trip report this time. So... I'll let you pick your pleasure...

I've been cherry picking my TR's for a while now and I'm just started to go back and get caught up. This one was from a quick spur of the moment trip with some friends who came into town looking to shoot a few photos in during a rushed trip to Moab. We started the trip by going directly to...

I hesitated a lot to post a few of my trip reports from last year due to the loss of most of my pictures to Hurricane Sandy. Luckily I had uploaded a few pictures online before it happened so it wasn't at least not a total loss. :) Salt Creek Canyon June 2012 After I have visited Angel...

So last week was looking to be really slow at work, with little to do. So I asked for 3 days off and took off on Friday after work, with the plan to arrive home 5 days later on Wednesday. At about 7PM I left Salt Lake with the goal of reaching Kanab. That drive seemed to go by fairly quick and...

The Best Way The sun, white hot, rising steadily, arcing toward it's mid day zenith, beating down on four tiny travelers alone in a vast rugged wilderness with a pressing yet so far tolerable heat, sqeazing sweat from their brow's as they plod along through soft sand angling strategically from...

Day 1: We left the hotel at about 9:00 am with clear skies and drove to the Needles visitor’s center to obtain our permit. Newspaper Rock was on the way so we stopped and took a few pictures. At the visitor’s center, the ranger reviewed basic backcountry regulations and water availability. The...

It was early march, and I checked the forecast for the following weekend. With a low of 50, and a High of 72 I knew it was time to use that last personal day I was hanging onto. With my wife coming along, I wanted to pick something that had available water, great views, and decent seclusion. We...

Friday - Sunday, March 15-17, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After work on Friday I got in my Jeep and started driving towards The Needles District of Canyonlands. I reached a campsite just outside the park shorty before sunset. As I was getting my tent setup the setting sun...

I outran a mild spring blizzard on the Wasatch Front Thursday morning and headed down to Island in the Sky for my first trip of spring. I picked up a permit for a night in the Syncline Valley and an extra night in the Taylor Zone, just in case I wanted to linger and explore another day. I had in...

The itch to camp does not stop when the cold grips the desert. The empty(ish) and FREE campground at Needles was a beautiful and extremely fun destination last December so I decided to hit it up again this year. Last year I saw Druid Arch which had enchanted me in photos and this year I wanted...

In an unabashed attempt to score some loot, I've decided to risk diluting the high quality of this website by posting my trip report. Last year, my brother-in-law and I spent a beautiful October day walking the Chesler Park loop in the Needles district. I've been near Chesler Park several...

When given the opportunity to hike with Wade and Alan this weekend to search for an alcove with a Bill Tibbetts inscription inside, I jumped at the chance. Last year I'd read Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws by Tom McCourt, which details Tibbetts' arrest on supposedly false cattle rustling...