grand staircase

I recently went on my first solo backpacking trip to the Northwestern chunk of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. A month before this trip, while hiking in the same area with slc_dan, I had the harrowing experience of missing a turn in a loop trail we were attempting and winding up...

This is my first post on here. My family and I have not been big hikers in the past and I have made a resolution to change that this year. I have purchased some gear to get us out and see this great state of Utah. We got the kids some hydration backpacks and hiking shoes and sandals and some...

I had originally gathered beta and hoped to take my brother from Montana through Coyote Gulch in early May. At the time I was working 4-10's but due to a large project, I was switched to a regular 5 day work week. With the change in plans, I decided to camp and hit a few day hikes along the...

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...

This hike has been on my hit list for about two years! Having once driven to the trail head but having been stopped by rain (we fled to get off the road before it became impassible and barely made it out before the deluge) I have been drooling to scratch it off my list. A couple weeks ago I...

This trip has been a long time coming. I had wanted to start backpacking for a couple of years and have been slowly buying gear. My first backpacking trip was a short trip to Cliff Lake last fall. This trip would be my second. I started planning this trip as a trip to the Escalante area for my...

This trip had been one I started thinking up the previous fall during a visit to Bryce Canyon National Park with my father. Having scouted around on the internet and Google Earth, I became set on the idea of visiting the Cosmic Ashtray (aka Escavolcano) via Red Breaks. Descriptions of Red Breaks...

March 2009 In March of '09 we set out towards the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for the traditional spring trip. The plan was to camp the first night in Escalante and then head west towards Cannonville to do some exploring on the Cottonwood Canyon Road. My friend Micajah and his...

*No* water whatsoever in Buckskin this past weekend. Muddy remnants of once-standing pools are evident, but your feet are gonna stay dry. No ropes or webbing were necessary for us. When you get to the rockfall, don't go left and use the fraying red and white rope that has been there for who...

I don't want to take too much away from @ibenick's trip report, but I put together a little video from the trip. This is my first time using the GoPro on a camping trip, but hoping to do more with it in the future. Inspiration comes from wes242 and I really admired his videos he's done. I...

Recently a facebook friend of mine invited me to go hike Zebra and Tunnel slot with him. What he didnt tell me was that he was leaving St George at 3AM so he could catch some sunrise photography at Devils Garden! :eek: Oh well I begrudgingly tagged along with the promise that I could sleep in...

Here is the first of at least a couple of trip reports from the BackcountryPost gathering over this past weekend. If you were a part of this trip, post a new trip report and add a link to it in this thread. Or if you'd rather just post a few photos, feel free to piggy back it onto this. As...

I recently had the good fortune of spending time along the Hole in the Rock Road area in Grand Staircase with my girlfriend. She has been so busy that she has missed out on my last few trips and it was good to spend an extended chunk of time in the desert and on the road with her. We left SLC...

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...

April 2006 The Death Hollow/Escalante River Gorge is one of those areas that I am continually drawn to when I think about a backpacking trip in the desert. There really aren't that many places where you can bring the dogs, see outstanding scenery, drink clear water and still get so out there. I...

June 2007 Ahhh Death Hollow, my favorite. I've accessed Death Hollow a multitude of ways, this time around we started at the Boulder Mail Trailhead hiked west overland into Death Hollow, south to the Escalante River, east to Sand Creek and then east again to the Highway 12 Bridge at the...

This hike is in the Escalante Canyons section of the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument and part of the Harris Wash drainage system. Some of my friends had explored this area and from everything I had heard, I knew I had to get out there. It is an area between Old Sheffield...

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...