cedar mesa

Thursday - Sunday, November 27-30, 2014 For Thanksgiving this year, Diane and I decided to spend a nice relaxing weekend on Cedar Mesa and we really lucked out with nice weather all weekend. The high temperatures were in the upper 50's during the day and low temperatures only dropped into the...

This looks like a pretty good fall campsite, don't you think? Lots of afternoon sun , reflected warmth from the canyon walls during the night, nice clear water in pot holes fifty feet away, These pot holes might not look like much, but finding beautiful clear water like this in the desert...

Winter always leaves me jonesing to get out. It's a long time to not be backpacking. So i decided to get down to southern utah as soon as i could this year. I planned on the first week end of march, which also ended up being the last week end of february. I drove down to Provo with my girl and...

From the BLOG. I have found the Ancestral Puebloan version of myself out in the wild of southeastern Utah. My wife and my Sunday drive/hike took us to the Wolfman panel just west of Bluff. The third group, the most intricate of the carvings, are spectacular. The artist who carved these...

Taking care of unfinished business — weather had spoiled plans for a winter visit to Cedar Mesa at the conclusion of my wagon trip around the White Rim. So when temperatures started creeping up from their freezing lows in February, I set out south once again. Finding a camping spot along the...

Todie canyon I rolled out of town after lunch on Thur. the 10th. Destination, Cedar Mesa. I arrived with plenty of time to setup camp before dark at a nice spot on Coyote Flat. A spot that Randy, Jared and I had camped when we hiked Sheiks canyon. The next morning I drove to the Todie...

I am finally writing my Spring Fling trip report. First, this trip was postponed until October, it is now the Utah Oktoberfest trip. I flew into SLC on Friday Oct 11th. Immediately I grabbed my rental, a Ford SUV AWD. Clearance was fair but no Toyo truck. I headed out of town through SLCs...

Friday - Sunday, March 14-16, 2014 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Friday morning, Diane and I headed south towards Cedar Mesa in southern Utah to spend a long weekend hiking, camping and searching for some new rock art sites along the way. While the weather was nice during the days...

Originally from mountain-dude.blogspot.com In the third year of existence, Pi Adventure this year was a focus on bridges and ruins in southeastern Utah. Pi Adventure is an annual event that takes place on March 14 (3.14 -- next year is gonna be a hoot at 9:26 am/pm because it will be...

When my wife and I first came through here we thought Government Trail area was the most beautiful stretch in Grand Gulch. We were kind of in a hurry, stopped at Big Man Panel (BTW there are numerous rock art panels in between Government Trail and Big Man Panel), but did not explore very much. I...

The first time I laid eyes on Mule Canyon, I was not a happy camper. I was with my friend PJ in the early 1990's, it was raining and cold, and we had been hiking up North Mule Canyon. We had seen quite a few ruins, which was a consolation. We had decided to make a loop hike up North Mule out and...

I'll admit it. I am obsessed with Grand Gulch, and many of the other canyons in the vicinity. Lucky for me I have a very understanding spouse. Many of the trips have been with friends, others by myself. My friend PJ and I for awhile had a standing rule on our excursions: all of them had to be...

Saturday & Sunday, January 18-19, 2014 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO The Bluff Balloon Festival is an annual event that I have wanted to attend for a number of years, yet for some reason or another I have never made it down there for it. This year I finally changed that! Diane and I...

Part 2 See part 1 here. Last weekend my friend PJ and I decided to do a quick 2 day venture, and we thought Step Canyon (the left canyon on the map at the start of the thread) would be fun. I wanted to complete the loop I had started 7 years earlier. We left after work, and I met him...

Part 1 March 2006 See Step Canyon 5-17-13 for Part 2. I decided one day back in early March of 2006 to throw the dog in the car and head for somewhere I had not been. I called the BLM, and the ranger suggested the Pine and Step canyon loop, although he warned me about the difficulty getting...

In the spring of 2008 a friend and I decided to go a little higher and explore Texas Canyon, a side canyon to Arch Canyon off of Comb Wash. We parked about a mile from the mouth of Texas along the Arch Canyon road, and then hiked a couple of miles up Texas and set up camp. It is an exquisitely...

Bringing to an end months of anticipation, finally, on Fri. April 26th, I left straight from my son’s graduation ceremony at UVU to go pick Jared up at his house in Sandy – and we were on our way to Cedar Mesa! With stops only for fuel in Wellington and fuel again in Hanksville plus a sandwich...

Last weekend my friend Mike and I decided to skip town and explore a small side canyon just to the south of the Main fork of Deer Canyon, which empties into Grand Gulch down from the Government trail. I had used the main fork of Deer Canyon as an exit route 10 years ago, as a friend and I had...

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...

Sunday, March 3, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Sunday morning I was up shortly before sunrise and quickly taking down camp so I could get an early start on the hike. I wasn't planning on taking any photos at sunrise, but when I saw the sky start to light up I quickly grabbed...