escalante

May 2007 My wife Alene fell in love with this area 6 years ago when she spent 2 months down here on an Archaeology dig while she attended BYU. She had been wanting to return badly and being that I'm still a desert novice, we felt it was a good time to break me in by starting off with one of...

April 2010 April is such a great time to be in the desert. The plan for this trip was to establish a base camp on Hole-in-the-Rock Road and spend three days out exploring and hiking some areas we hadn't seen yet. We did a day hike into Bighorn Canyon the first day. The next day we planned on...

Broken Bow Arch, June 2009 During our annual trip to the Southwest, my husband and I spent a few days in the Escalante area. Originally we planned to hike the Dry Fork slots, but they were filled with water due to some nasty storms. So we wanted to do something else down there and decided to...

September 2010 September brings colder weather back to the high elevations and me back to the desert. This year we planned a nice backpacking trip to Death Hollow. One of my favorite desert destinations. It was the first place I ever backpacked and it's an awesome place to bring the dogs. We've...

I have been looking at doing this hike for years, but never planned to do it till a few months ago. My wife and I have heard great things about Coyote Gulch so we took some time off to give it a shot. Now there are so many ways that you can do this hike that is the major battle in planning…...

It was our 5 year anniversary and we decided to celebrate it with a backpacking trip in Escalante's Coyote Gulch. We had talked about doing this hike for a long time and we were so happy to finally do it. This was only our 2nd trip to Escalante area (as a couple), but we love going there and...

September 2010 I had the pleasure to get out and do some canyoneering with Kev, Mike and Aram earlier this week. I had previously done quite a bit of rappelling, some climbing and lots of backpacking so it wasn't too far out there to go technical canyoneering. The original plan was to hit a...

In today's adventure, we dodge the weather and eventually find ourselves in the Navajo Nation. We spent the night in Torrey, Utah, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park. The following morning, we headed south on scenic Utah Rt. 12 towards Boulder and Escalante. Our first obstacle of...

May 2011 This will go down as one of my longer trip reports. I can't help it though, this trip was really, really nice. Hard to put it to words but this excerpt from Desert Solitaire says it pretty well. Hiking in the desert truly is one of my favorite things in the world. So far this month I...

In August of 2009 I went on an overnight trip with Aaron Johnson and his friend Tobey from Escalante to Neon Canyon in Grand Staircase/Escalante. Not much excitement to report, but if you've never been there you might like to see what it looks like. This area, in the Egypt section of GS/E, has...

May 2010 Coyote Gulch, one of the premiere backpacking destinations in the state of Utah. I had always wanted to check it out but no dogs are allowed so for several years I passed it by for the many other dog-friendly canyons in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. But in May, 2010...