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Every year my Mom's side of the Family take off on trips around the west. This year we decided to take the family and follow them down to Northern Arizona and Escalante. I've yet to do Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon due to the popularity, with that said, it was time to get them over with...

Saturday & Sunday, November 10-11, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO For a little over a year now I've been pretty obsessed with exploring and photographing the unusual and spectacular sandstone formations of The Paria Plateau. I've been to Coyote Buttes North five times, Coyote...

After talking about Ticaboo with audraiam, it got me to thinking that I wanted to go back down in that area. So this past weekend my wife and I headed out to Ticaboo Mesa. We did some hiking on the mesa above the Dante Canyons, but we didn't hike down into the canyons. The descriptions of those...

Over several days in late October, I backpacked into the Escalante with lostlandscapes, Dan Ransom, drclef, Zoemaster and a couple other friends. At the far end of our loop was Neon Canyon. A canyon I had originally set out to do in September of 2010 as one of my first technical canyons thanks...

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...

This has to be one of the most intense and well-written trip reports I have ever read. For those that don't know, this is from Ram and his son Aaron. Two very experienced canyoneers, amongst the best. I had the pleasure of having Ram rappel into my campsite deep in the Escalante backcountry a...

March 2007 This was a very short notice trip. I wasn't planning on getting out to the desert until May but it was spring break from school and the weather was just too good to ignore. This trip would become Audra's first ever backpacking trip so we decided we would do a day hike on the first...

Weird stuff happens. Here's a report from a houseboat trip we took in 2008. We put in at Hite and traveled west on Lake Powell at the relaxing (mind-numbing?) sppe of four to eight mph, depending on the wind. We got as far as Willow gulch on the Escalante before turning around to go back to...

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...

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...