glen canyon

Cathedral in the Desert means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To most traffic on the lake, it's a beautiful spot to pull into the shade and see some soaring walls, and if you're lucky, a beautiful waterfall. The lower the water, the grander the spectacle. Even at higher...

Apologies if anyone has seen this trip report on another site, but I've never put one on here and thought it's about time. A few new photos are on this one though, but I couldn't attach the panoramics unfortunately because when I tried uploading here it said they used too much memory. I'll...

It was another wonderful canyoneering trip. Me and my group had the privilege to canyoneer with Penny, Dave, Mark and Tyler. The destination of choice for this trip was Paradiso Canyon! Paradiso is part of a canyon system known as the Dante Canyons, and this canyon system is wonderful! The...

The anticipation of staring at a new boat in my driveway proved to be overwhelming. This past weekend @slc_dan and I, along with a pack of puppies made the drive down to Glen Canyon to test out the new vessel. We stopped short of Bullfrog the first night and camped out at Little Egypt. The mild...

I've been putting off this trip report for too long now. This is from the trip @Aldaron and I took back in January to see if we could track down exactly where the Survivorman Utah/Canyonlands episode had been filmed. As most of you know from this thread, what we found was rather depressing for...

A little late to post, but I figured this might help someone wanting to do a similar trip. Escalante has been on my bucket list for some time now, so I decided to plan a trip down there to see what it's all about. Many thanks to everyone that providedso many helpful suggestions for this trip...

I spent last weekend at home with the kids while Traci was out of town, but I had Monday and Tuesday off work and I'd planned on exploring Clearwater and Rock canyons in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area those days. I didn't expect the U.S. government shutdown to affect my plans. Although...

If you keep up with BCP, you know that I've been getting into kayaking lately. It's something I've always wanted to do so with the my knee being so difficult the last year or so, I decided to take the plunge. As with any new activity, it's not a cheap thing to start doing. But fortunately it's...

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...

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...

My wife, seven friends, and I headed down to Escalante for Memorial Day weekend. We had some seasoned hikers, and some complete noobs, so we wanted an easy hike in to a basecamp, from where we could leisurely explore. Inspired by @Nick's report on Fiftymile from earlier in May, we decided to...

Late Thursday night, on the 9th, my friend Calvin and I left Salt Lake planning to camp at Little Egypt. I was there just over a month before, so I thought it would be very easy to drive back. However, it was a new moon that night so we ended up looking all over before ending up in Ticaboo to...

Saturday afternoon. We're back at base camp after our lovely backpack trip to Coyote Gulch. http://backcountrypost.com/forum/threads/return-to-coyote-gulch.2170/ Our tents and my EZ-Up are still standing and our coolers still have ice. Yay!! Cold beer and perhaps a cocktail. We better get into...

Two weeks ago my wife and I committed to hiking Llewellyn on a rare trip together without the kids. I had the cords loaded on my GPS for about 3 years but for some reason or another we always ended up passing it up for something else in the area. We drove down to Escalante, hiked lower...

I have held onto this trip report for months partially for selfish reasons, partially because I was/am disappointed with my pictures! They dont do this place any justice! Day 1- I woke up at 6 and made it to boulder just before 10AM to meet up with my hiking partner/guide. We quickly loaded up...

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...

This is the third in a 3-part trip report from my backpacking trip through Llewellyn Gulch & Cottonwood Gulch in March 2013. Part 1: Llewellyn Gulch Part 2: Dos Tinajas Part 3: Cottonwood Gulch After 2 days of wandering through the maze of slickrock on the bench between Llewellyn &...

This is the second in a 3-part trip report from my backpacking trip through Llewellyn Gulch & Cottonwood Gulch in March 2013. Part 1: Llewellyn Gulch Part 2: Dos Tinajas Part 3: Cottonwood Gulch After exploring down into lower Llewellyn Gulch, we made our way back to our packs and started up...

This is the first in a 3-part trip report from my backpacking trip through Llewellyn Gulch & Cottonwood Gulch in March 2013. Part 1: Llewellyn Gulch Part 2: Dos Tinajas Part 3: Cottonwood Gulch My stokeometer was off the charts leading into this trip. Nearly 4 months of little-to-no...

Southern Utah Traverse 2009 Border to border traverse of Southern Utah completed successfully by three members of Expedition Utah and their three trusty vehicles between September fourth and September twelfth, two thousand and nine. Participants Adam, with a Jeep JK Wrangler Rubicon Jan...