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III Original post at RedRockRangers.com III This weekend, we decided to check out Water Canyon -- a pretty, splashy hike at the base of Canaan Mountain. This area is just south of Zion National Park, but officially outside park boundaries. That means you get Zion-esque soaring cliffs and...

Canyoneering or winter sport TR? Another of the series of Yahoo Group TR's now integrated with pictures. The question has been asked? Why Imlay in the winter? A wonderful canyon that is hard enough in the warm times of the year. Why build in extra suffering and risk? A few reasons really, but...

My daughter Amy is back from college for 10 days. She will be 21 years old next month,. The subject of her trip through Heaps in 2010 came up. The trip was planned, by her request, as her Sweet sixteen, coming of age present. We brought up the pictures and reminisced. I also noted the collection...

Water canyon was delightful. The hike to the top was full of outstanding views, and the canyon had many great rappels. Being in Water canyon proved to be a great way to beat the hot Southern Utah sun. To make the day even better, it was my Birthday! It wasn't as good as being home with my wife...

I finished my Zion to Capitol Reef Hike back in May. After completing the "Flood Video" I got sidetracked and didn't get a chance to do a full trip report... until now. I'll give you guys a trip overview here and include the "short" video. But, if you have the time and want to dig deeper, check...

Zion National Park, UT and the North Rim, AZ June 25th-30th, 2015 I normally prefer to travel solo on my hiking trips with the main exception being when my wife is able to join me. So when Tyne said her work schedule would allow her 5 days to hike with me this June, I jumped at the opportunity...

Every time I do this canyon I feel like Mother Nature is calling me overweight… …Oh well, a place as special as this is worth the struggle. This was originally posted on www.howellsoutdoors.com. We couldn’t have possibly picked a hotter time to go through the technical canyon called Fat Man’s...

Awhile back I went and did Rock Canyon. I know Rock Canyon is such a vague name for a canyon and there are about a million different Rock Canyons. Its the one in southern Utah. The one near Zion National Park... ...It's the one that enters into the East Fork of the Virgin River from the south...

So I have a few more days left in Zion before heading off to other venues. I have been invited on a few other trips but I have promised to meet four folks for a canyon and the canyon is Boundary. Two run afoul of work and two are far away and checking the weather radar. I figure if the weather...

Troy Ayers had done good world for the Coalition of American Canyoneers as a board member and we had a wonderful time in Sad Cow a few years back, so when an invite arrived from him to join a Checkerboard descent, I signed right up. As the date neared, Mark Burnham shared that he was in the...

My first trip to Zion…in fact my first hiking trip in Utah at all. I’ve done all of my backpacking in the mid-Atlantic area…land of the long green tunnel. I’d done some day hiking in the Tetons and around Lake Tahoe, but never any overnight trips in the West. Needless to say, I was very...

Zion has become my favorite national park. Just a couple years ago I had never even been out to southern Utah. Now we have visited it twice in person and, thanks to the internet, including Backcountrypost.com, I can read trip reports, see photos, and watch videos from Zion trips at will, and...

2/28/15 Another storm was moving through southwestern Utah and as seems the norm this winter I headed towards Zion, this time with my northern friend Richard. We arrived in a drizzle with nice gloomy low clouds. After driving to the end of the main canyon we stopped by Wedding Springs...

The Watchman is an iconic mountain in Zion National Park. People line up most evenings at the bridge, in the park to take the picture of it, as the sun sets upon it. It is the mountain displayed on the Backpackers pantry freeze dried dinners and can be found all over the place. Having just...

Call of the Wild 12-25-14 A Christmas Day canyon descent in Zion Never again! Never! Never, never again! I swear it! It was just too much of a set up and such a big let down. Oh, oh so close. Heaps for Christmas Day was a dream. Not least of all because I thought I had figured out just how to...

I have read many trip reports through the years on this site, but figure a report may be the best way to say a belated Hello. Seeing the reports recently about Parunuweap, this seemed a good first trip to share. In October of 2013, during what turned out to be the very last days of the...

A 2004 trip from Mt Carmel and out at the Powell Plaque: Featured image for home page:

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Originally posted on Howellsoutdoors.com January 1, 2015 – (Map Here) The early morning of the hike was cold and the air crisp and frigid. It’s always nice when the air temperature causes your breath to freeze and your beard to get icicles. Hiking up the hill from the parking area was a...

Seldom does southwest Utah get much snow and even more seldom does that happen over the new year. So when around an inch fell in St George, I headed towards Zion to see what fell there. I must say, it was quite pretty. A couple weeks ago I had driven up the canyon to see crazy low clouds...