robbers roost

I've really wanted to do High Spur since reading that it was as pretty as Antelope Canyon but without the guide fees or the crowds. So the weekend of October 25, 2013, I decided we would head down to High Spur and do the non-technical parts since my wife isn't very keen on the tech stuff. We...

There was a brilliant sunrise just outside of Green River on Saturday morning. I pulled to the side of US-6 to get a photo of it, and after I was under way again it got better and better. I wish I'd have stopped again for another photo when the sunrise was at its peak. Sunrise just outside of...

At the risk of being shut down by heavy rain or washed-out roads, I took the pups for an overnighter in the San Rafael Desert. There were storm clouds visible as I hit the gravel road outside of Green River but the sky cleared up as I made my way south. Ninemile Wash wasn't flowing as I'd...

Friday - Sunday, April 5-7, 2013 The Original Trip Report on ADVENTR.CO After work on Friday I headed back into Utah to meet a few friends in Poison Springs Canyon so that we could hike to Happy Canyon on Saturday and then spend some time visiting a few rock art sites on Sunday. I quickly...

This TR documents a backpack down Poison Springs to the Dirty Devil and back out. Why Poison Springs given that it has a dirt road down it that even crosses the Devil and ascends out of the canyon on the other side to the east? I chose there because I had never been there and hoped that the road...

The day after Nick, langutah, neiloro and I scraped through the mesmerizing depths of Larry Canyon, we set our sights on one of Larry's neighbors: the north fork of Lost Spring Canyon, a lesser traveled and more mysterious slot in Robbers Roost. What we hoped would be the perfect "Sunday canyon"...

When given the opportunity to hike with Wade and Alan this weekend to search for an alcove with a Bill Tibbetts inscription inside, I jumped at the chance. Last year I'd read Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws by Tom McCourt, which details Tibbetts' arrest on supposedly false cattle rustling...

I'm bouncing all over the place on posting trip reports, but I was sick of seeing myself on the home page slideshow so I thought I'd post a quick one to knock my ugly mug off the top! Thanks, Tim! I thought it would be fun to try to pull off one more Backcountrypost fest to finish off the...

nick, langutah, neiloro and I took advantage of some mild autumn weather and visited the Roost for a little mid-November canyoneering. Larry Canyon was first up on the menu, and it'd be the maiden voyage for the whole crew. Not oblivious to public opinion, our hopes were high for this descent...

I need to get caught up on a couple of trip reports... The weekend of 2 Nov 12, my wife and I took a trip down to southern Utah. We first headed down to Muddy Creek on Saturday, with our first stop at the Hidden Splendor Mine. The road out to here wasn't bad at all, and it was really nice...

In a departure from my usual fare, my friend Chris and I descended High Spur, a technical canyoneering route in the Robber's Roost area. We woke up early on the morning of Friday, October 19, and started putting our gear together. We could have driven both our vehicles and saved ourselves from a...

I've been seriously slacking off in getting my trip reports posted here. Instead of catching up right now (too busy), I'm gonna start off with the most recent from this past week (Oct. 11-12): Chris and I took Thursday and Friday off work last week and, ignoring the weather forecast, went...

Is it OK to just post a link here? If not I'm sure people will let me know. This is a quick report about a 5-day backpacking trip into middle/upper Happy Canyon in March 2012: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/693

my friend Stephen and I left Friday morning around 8 am. We arrived at the horseshoe canyon trail head around 2 pm. We immediately hit the trail. On the way down we saw one really nicely preserved dinosaur track. To my knowledge there are 4 pictograph panels in the canyon we stopped at each and...

Finally made it down to the desert for a trip other than work! This being the first canyoneering trip of the year we decided to make it a fairly non-technical one. We decided upon Three and Moonshine the first day, and Blue John the second. We drove down Friday afternoon, getting stuck in the...

October 2010 We ended up all over the place on this trip. We left SLC early Friday morning under rainy skies but fortunately it was sunny and beautiful by the time we made it past Price. The huge storms over the weekend had me really worried about the condition of the roads, especially...

Alene and I needed to get out of town for a night (cabin fever) so we decided to head down to the southern desert and visit a place I've never been before and Alene had not been since her archaeology field school in 2001. Despite many warnings about the weather from everyone we knew that was...

October 2011 I've been going on a fair amount of canyoneering trips lately so it seemed appropriate to knock one off the list I've always wanted to do; Blue John Canyon. Blue John is famous because it is the place where Aron Ralston became pinned under a boulder and subsequently self-amputated...

Upon catching some lunch and leaving the Trin Alcove Bend area of the Green River (after doing the Northwest Fork of Three Canyon), Bill and I headed over to the Moonshine wash area, which runs parallel to Three Canyon, so it wasn't too far away. We immediately headed out for the canyon upon...

I have been wanting to come back to this area ever since the first time we came here with Bill for his birthday a few years ago. I've never been to Three Canyon, but had read about it and it's always been somewhat of a mystery to me and I've wanted to explore it badly. Alene and I had...