cedar mesa

Saturday, March 2, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Saturday morning I headed south for an early season hike in the Grand Gulch area. I stopped at the Kane Gulch Ranger Station as they opened for the day to pick up an annual Cedar Mesa hiking pass and then started hiking down...

On the evening of Thursday the 14th, I pulled off the highway onto Cigarette springs road and proceeded down the dirt track to where it dead ends at the head of a Road canyon tributary. There I unfolded my cot and unrolled my sleeping bag. Gotta love only 2 minutes to setup camp. There...

Hat Flat is a group of 3 small canyons located between Slickhorn Canyon and Grand Gulch. You would hardly know they are there, only 200' deep or so. It looked like a very good place to go early in January (2011), so my friend Louis and I left Carbondale in very cold weather, a big storm had just...

Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 8 Saturday, October 13, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO It rained again on Friday night. Not near as much as the previous night, but enough to make everything wet when we took down camp in the morning. Once we got our camp packed up...

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...

Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 6 Thursday, October 11, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After sleeping in a little later on Thursday morning, we had a little breakfast and hiked down the old road past the washout in search of rock art. After looking at the washout...

Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 5 Wednesday, October 10, 2012 The Original Trip report on ADVENTR.CO On Wednesday morning, after a great night sleeping under the stars on Alstrom Point, we woke up just as dawn was starting to break. I rolled out of my sleeping bag, grabbed my...

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...

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 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...