Sunday, June 28, 2009 Today I was invited by a friend at work to raft the Colorado River with him from Grizzly Creek to South Canyon near Glenwood Springs. Since Amanda and I had nothing planned for today, we decided to go with. Another guy I work with also had his boat with and a [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Grizzly Creek to South Canyon
Posted: June 28, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2009, colorado, colorado river, glenwood canyon, glenwood springs, grizzly creek, rapids, south canyon, two rivers park
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Posted: June 27, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, TouringTags: 2009, black canyon, black canyon of the gunnison national park, colorado, crystal dam, east portal, gunnison river, painted wall, south rim
Saturday, June 17, 2009 Amanda and I headed down to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park for a day trip. This trip we only checked out the South Rim and headed down to the East Portal. We are planning on heading to the North Rim in the future sometime. Just some photos from the [...]
June San Juan’s Day Trip
Posted: June 20, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, animas forks road, animas river, colorado, cunningham gulch, dry creek, dry creek trail, highland mary mine, jeep, lower animas road, mill creek, mill creek trail, mining history, montrose, rain, san juan mountains, silverton, snow, stony pass, tabeguache trail
Saturday, June 20, 2009 With word of the trails in the San Juan Mountains starting to open up already thanks to plenty of dust storms this spring, Amanda and I decided to head down for a day trip. Our destination was a few trails around Silverton. Amanda wanted to drive a trail this trip and [...]
Yet another day on the Uncompahgre
Posted: June 14, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, cabin, casto draw, colorado, divide road, dolores river, dolores triangle, escalante canyon, gateway, glade park, granite creek, jeep, la sal mountains, love mesa, pinion mesa, sheep creek, steamboat mesa, the palisade, unaweep canyon, uncompahgre national forest, uncompahgre plateau, utah
Sunday, June 14, 2009 Amanda had to go into work today so I decided to head up onto the Uncompahgre and finish some trails I have started before and to check out a few new ones. I made a big loop by starting out in Escalante Canyon and following it up onto Love Mesa where [...]
Searching for Paradox
Posted: June 13, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, cabin, carpenter ridge, colorado, gateway, gateway - castleton road, grand loop, grand loop 4x4 trail, jeep, john brown canyon, la sal mountains, mines, paradox trail, paradox valley, taylor flat, uncompahgre plateau, utah, wildlife
Saturday, June 13, 2009 Another 12 hour day in the books. This time with Amanda. I figured that since I have now driven the Kokopelli and the Tabeguache, I would just finish off the Grand Loop and find a 4×4 route of the Paradox Trail. We got an early start this morning and headed towards [...]
Bangs Canyon (More Tabeguache Mapping)
Posted: June 7, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, bangs canyon, colorado, grand junction, grand valley, jeep, little park road, rough canyon, tabeguace 4x4 trail, tabeguache trail, uncompahgre plateau
Sunday, June 7, 2009 My trip on the Tabeguache Trail yesterday ended when I reached Highway 141 in Unaweep Canyon, even though the actual trail continues on to Monument Road. The reason for this is that there is no motorized access to the trail on the north side of the highway. However, the section on [...]
Mapping the Tabeguache
Posted: June 6, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, cactus park, colorado, divide road, dominguez canyon, dry creek, grand junction, grand loop, grand loop 4x4 trail, jeep, la sal mountains, montrose, shavano valley, tabeguace 4x4 trail, tabeguache trail, unaweep canyon, uncompahgre plateau
Saturday, June 6, 2009 After finally running the full Kokopelli Trail last month, I decided I wanted to finish off the ‘Grand Loop’ trails. Today I tackled the second trail; the Tabeguache Trail. The Tabeguache (pronounced ‘tab-a-watch’) Trail is mountain bike trail that starts out near Montrose, CO and ends up near Grand Junction. Like [...]