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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...

Over Memorial Day weekend, 2012, Nick, neiloro, Miss Buffalo, and whitwilli and I ventured into the heart of The Maze district in Canyonlands National Park for a four day backpacking adventure. Nick delivered a highly detailed and excellently written trip report of our expedition here, in case...

I'm bouncing all over the place on posting trip reports, but I was sick of seeing myself on the home page slideshow so I thought I'd post a quick one to knock my ugly mug off the top! Thanks, Tim! I thought it would be fun to try to pull off one more Backcountrypost fest to finish off the...

This trip, as originally conceived, was to be a four night, five day excursion into the backcountry of Canyonlands National Park. I'd hoped to link the highlights of the Needles using an extended loop, traveling counter-clockwise from the Squaw Campground trailhead to Chelser Park, Elephant...

Saturday, November 17, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Saturday morning I was up and driving towards the Abajo Mountains well before the sun was ready to come up. My destination for the day was Fable Valley. I wanted to squeeze in a quick dayhike before snow would make the...

Thursday - Sunday, November 1-4, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After work on Thursday evening I got in my Jeep and drove into Utah again. I had taken Friday off from work and was planning on meeting a group of friends in Beef Basin for a long weekend of camping and exploring...

In a departure from my usual fare, my friend Chris and I descended High Spur, a technical canyoneering route in the Robber's Roost area. We woke up early on the morning of Friday, October 19, and started putting our gear together. We could have driven both our vehicles and saved ourselves from a...

I've been seriously slacking off in getting my trip reports posted here. Instead of catching up right now (too busy), I'm gonna start off with the most recent from this past week (Oct. 11-12): Chris and I took Thursday and Friday off work last week and, ignoring the weather forecast, went...

Lavender Canyon seems to be well off the beaten trail for all those who visit the nearby Indian Creek Recreation Area and Canyonlands' Needles District for in my two times visiting there (both actually on April 1st and 2nd of both 2011 and 2012) I did not see a single soul. It is accessed by...

Saturday & Sunday, August 4-5, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Saturday I met up with Jackson and his family so that we could float a section of the Green River known as the Green River Daily. This section is a few miles long and located within Gray Canyon a few miles north of...

Saturday & Sunday, July 14-15, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO I first tried to explore Horse Canyon in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park back in 2008 when I camped at Peekaboo with a few friends. Back then the entrance to the canyon had been washed out pretty...

Memorial Weekend in The Needles | Day 3 Memorial Day | Monday, May 28, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After another night of great camping weather we had some breakfast and set out hiking so that we could visit the Flying Carpet Panel. We also explored a few small side canyons...

Memorial Weekend in The Needles | Day 2 Sunday, May 27, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After a good night of sleep at Devil's Kitchen we spent the rest of the day making our way over to Peekaboo for the night. Of course, we made some other stops along the way. I woke up just...

Memorial Weekend in The Needles | Day 1 Saturday, May 26, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Bright and early Saturday morning I was up and headed to The Needles District of Canyonlands National park to meet up with a few friends for the Memorial Day weekend. I made pretty good time...

Hey look, another Maze trip report! :lol: It seems like an awful lot of people on the forum have been there recently, and it was great to finally see it in person. This trip was June 1-5, 2012. On a day in early January of this year, I was sitting at my desk in front of the computer and the...

To start where part 1 ended, a beautiful sunrise from our camp in Water Canyon. Water Canyon Sunrise by NateGeesaman, on Flickr We got moving early to take advantage of the cool morning. Morning through Water Canyon by NateGeesaman, on Flickr The early morning light was great as we made...

Apologies in advance for the absurd lengths these trip reports from this trip are bound to reach, but this was one of my longer trips, 8 days in all, and The Maze is one scenic mother so I had a hard time setting down my camera. I was super excited for this trip and feeling the good energy of...

I’d been wanting to get into the Maze for several years, since hiking out to the Confluence Overlook in the Needles about ten years ago with my then-teenage son Phil and reading about all the adventures out there of Ed Abbey and the Monkey Wrench heroes. Phil and I came close last September...

This is part 3 of 3 from our 4 day backpacking trip via jetboat through The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. Check out the other parts here: Part 1: Spanish Bottom to Water Canyon Part 2: Shot Canyon to Pictograph Fork Once again, here is the map of our route for the entire trip...

This is Day 2 and the second trip report from our 4-day backpacking trip through The Maze over Memorial Weekend 2012. Check out the other trip reports from this trip: Part 1: Spanish Bottom to Water Canyon Part 2: Shot Canyon to Pictograph Fork (the report you're looking at) Part 3: The Maze...