moab area

Ok, so this trip report isn't particularly adventurous or out of the way, but I did get some cool photos. Friday the 5th my brother Justin and I drove down to the Goblin Valley area. We camped on this BLM spot I always go to, by some cool Hoodoos. I woke up at sunrise to see if anything good...

Moab Area Rock Art XXII Saturday, December 1, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Saturday I drove down to Moab to meet up with Marty again for some hiking and exploring. He's going to be moving to Grand Junction at the beginning of the new year, so we wanted to get at least one...

Day two of our Moab excursion brought drclef and I into Arches National Park for a few hours of fun in U-turn canyon. Turned out to be a terrific little Sunday morning route. Fireside sunrise: From the Park Avenue trailhead. Our route would take us, clockwise, up and around this set of...

drclef and I took advantage of this lingering balmy autumn of ours and visited the Moab area this past weekend for a couple of canyons. On Saturday we hit Rock of Ages, a fun and absolutely beautiful mid-sized romp in the Pritchett Canyon area. <iframe width="850" height="500" frameborder="0"...

Sunday, October 28, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO It was one of those days that I just needed to get out hiking and exploring by myself, so that's what I set out to do. Last year around Christmas I had planned to hike along the Dolores River near Bedrock but got a severe...

Moab Area Rock Art XXI Saturday, October 20, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO This weekend, even right after my week-long trip, I was ready to get out hiking and exploring again. I figured that since I hadn't been down to Moab for a while it might be a good time to get back for a...

Back in May I was going to end my Bryce-to-Moab hike going through the Behind the Rocks area outside of Moab. It's an area I'd never explored so I was anxious to check it out, but alas that hike didn't go as planned and I had to cut it short. But... last week I got an opportunity to head back to...

On Sunday, May 6, my wife Jo and I picked up ladigue_99 (henceforth known as Ladigue) at the Albuquerque airport. She was arriving from Italy for a two-week journey through the southwest. Jo accompanied us for the first leg of the trip, to White Sands, and then departed for her own adventure in...

Sunday, May 6, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After a nice night sleeping along Indian Creek, I was awake again the break of dawn and having some breakfast. I packed up camp and then headed back into The Needles for another day of exploring. I was soon driving the rough road...

Saturday, March 3, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After spending the last two weeks in the Chicago area, and not having been to Moab in almost a month (February is one of my favorite times to hike around Moab since the weather is usually nice and there aren't any crowds yet), it...

Alene, Caiden, and I went camping in a campground about 6 miles outside Moab, right along the Colorado River along with Bill & April and their son Lanik, and Clint and Annie. We spent the good portion of the trip hiking through Arches National Park. This would be our first time in Arches, so we...

Every year we make at least one winter trip to Moab during the off season. Hotels are cheap and the trails are typically empty aside from the few people willing to deal with a bit of cold weather. For our 2012 trip we got an early start Saturday morning and drove out to Island in the Sky . We...

Moab Area Rock Art XIV Saturday, December 3, 2011 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After a great long Thanksgiving Weekend I headed back to Moab with my friend Jackson so that we could hike and search for some new rock art panels. I had high hopes of finding many new panels and was not...

Moab Area Rock Art XV Saturday, December 10, 2011 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO I left my house early on Saturday morning so I could photograph the lunar eclipse just before the sunrise. I didn't plan on going to any specific location, so I figured that I would stop somewhere...

Moab Area Rock Art XVI Saturday, December 17, 2011 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO On Saturday, Marty and I set out to hike the Hidden Valley and Moab Rim Loop. We had both hiked Hidden Valley before, and driven the Moab Rim trail in our Jeeps, but we both had wanted to hike the whole...

Moab Area Rock Art XVII Monday, December 26, 2011 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO Since Christmas fell on a Sunday this year I was off from work on Monday. What better way to spend the day than searching for more rock art near Moab? However, this was no ordinary Moab rock art trip...

Moab Area Rock Art XX Saturday, January 21, 2012 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO I was up at 4am this morning so that I could make it to Marlboro Point before sunrise. With storms moving through the area, I was hoping for a colorful and dramatic sunrise...and I wasn't let down! As I...

During spring break of 2009 everyone at the University was furloughed to save money because of budget cuts. Instead of sitting around all week doing nothing a buddy and I planned a little vacation to Southern UT for some much needed warmer weather! Our plan was to explore the country around...

After Alene's half of a half-marathon today, we headed up to Hunter Canyon, which is a canyon off the Colorado river south west of Moab. It really was a beautiful canyon and I'd love to go back and explore more of it. We did not hike back too far. We stopped at the first large arch you can see...

It was time to get away from the daily hustle and head down to Moab where it was 5-10 degrees warmer and a whole lot sunnier. Our plan was to head down early Saturday morning but I got really sick the day before and was hoping I'd sleep it off, but to my dismay, I was not able to get up early...