Saturday, March 27, 2010 On Saturday morning, Amanda and I headed out to the Dome Plateau area north of Moab in search of some arches. The main arch I wanted to find was Covert Arch above Lost Spring Canyon. I figured since we were planning on looking for at least one arch, I should stop [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Arch Hunting the Dome Plateau Area
Posted: March 27, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, arches, arches national park, arrow head arch, arrowhead arch, cave spring, cisco, clouds, colorado river, covert arch, dancing bear panel, delicate arch, dewey bridge, dinosaur tracks, dome plateau, jeep, kokopelli trail, la boca arch, lost spring canyon, moab, petroglyphs, pole canyon, rock art, squaw park, squaw window, the highlands, utah, ute, wind caves, winter camp ridge, yellow cat, yellow cat flat, yellow cat road, yellow jacket canyon
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Spanish Trail – Gunnison Bluffs Loop
Posted: March 25, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Mountain BikingTags: 2010, colorado, grand mesa, gunnison bluffs, gunnison river, gunnison river bluffs, orchard mesa, spanish trail
Thursday, March 25, 2010 After work I decided to head out on my first mountain bike ride of the season. I ended up heading to the Spanish Trail and Gunnison Bluffs area and rode one of the loops. Here’s a few photos from my ride… At the trailhead with my new, but temporary bike rack. [...]
Hells & Things
Posted: March 20, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, black hole, colorado river, colorado river gorge, diving board rock, fins and things, hells gate, hells revenge, jeep, la sal mountains, moab, sand flats, sand flats recreation area, sand flats road, utah
Saturday, March 20, 2010 Today, Amanda and I headed to the Sand Flats Recreation Area just outside of Moab. Our goal was to run the Hells Revenge and Fins & Things trails. It has been a few years since I have run either of these trails, so it was about time to run them again. [...]
Delicate Arch Hike
Posted: March 13, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in HikingTags: 2010, arches, arches national park, delicate arch, moab, utah
Saturday, March 13, 2010 Yesterday Amanda and I headed to Arches National Park for the sole purpose of hiking to Delicate Arch. We left home early and ended up staring the hike to the arch shortly after 9:00am. When we reached the arch, we were lucky enough to have it to ourselves for a little [...]
Western Colorado Botanical Gardens
Posted: March 7, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Photographing, TouringTags: 2010, butterfly, colorado, flowers, grand junction, grand valley, western colorado botanical gardens
Sunday, March 7, 2010 We were originally planning on heading to Arches National Park today so we could hike to Delicate Arch. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate with us, so we ended up staying home. After having some breakfast, Amanda remembered that it was the first Sunday of the month, and that the Western [...]
Liberty Cap & Echo Canyon
Posted: March 6, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in HikingTags: 2010, colorado, colorado national monument, echo canyon, grand junction, grand valley, liberty cap, no thoroughfare canyon, snow, uncompahgre plateau
Saturday, March 6, 2010 This morning Amanda and I set off to do some hiking at the Colorado National Monument. Our first destination was the Liberty Cap trail. This is a trail we had not been on before. We started at the bottom and planned to head up to the Liberty Cap before heading back [...]