Sunday, April 25, 2010 Since I wasn’t planning on going anywhere with the Jeep today, I decided to get up early and head over to the Kokopelli bike trails near Loma to check out a popular trail named Rustler’s Loop. It was a great 3.5 mile loop with excellent views over Horsethief Canyon and the [...]
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Rustler’s Loop
Posted: April 25, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Mountain BikingTags: 2010, colorado, colorado river, grand valley, horsethief canyon, kokopelli trail, loma, rustlers bench, rustlers loop, uncompahgre plateau
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Top of the World & The Cisco Desert
Posted: April 24, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2010, cisco, cisco desert, cisco wash, colorado river, cowskin canyon, dewey, dewey bridge, dolores river, dolores triangle, dolores triangle road, east cisco wash, fisher towers, fisher valley, gas station, history, jeep, kokopelli trail, la sal mountains, mcgraw bottom, richardson amphitheater, top of the world, utah, west cisco wash
Saturday, April 24, 2010 Yesterday we decided to stick close to home. Amanda had mentioned that she wanted to head up the Top of the World trail soon, so we headed that way for a while. We also explored a few trails and roads I had not been on in the Cisco Desert along the [...]
Hole-in-the-Rock Adventure | Day 4 & 5
Posted: April 12, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, TouringTags: 2010, anasazi, basketmaker, blanding, bluff, bluff cemetery, bluff fort, bluff fort historic site, cabin, cal black memorial airport, camp, henry mountains, hole-in-the-rock trail, kumen jones ruin, navajo twins, petroglyphs, red canyon, rock art, san juan mission, san juan river, sand island, sand island petroglyphs, sunbonnet rock, tent, utah, wagons
Sunday – Monday, April 11-12, 2010 We had camped pretty close to the end of the trail the previous night, so once we were up and packed up we made our way back to the highway. I didn’t stop for anymore photos on the way out. Once back at the highway, a few of us [...]
Hole-in-the-Rock Adventure | Day 3
Posted: April 10, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, aladdins lamp, arches, camp, cottonwood canyon, cottonwood hill, grey mesa, henry mountains, hole-in-the-rock, hole-in-the-rock trail, iceberg canyon, jeep, lake powell, natural bridge, navajo mountain, old settler natural bridge, reflection, rincon trail, san juan mission, sunset, the chute, utah
Saturday, April 10, 2010 After a near perfect night camping, we were up early again so that Dave and I could hike down to Cottonwood Hill from the end of the 4×4 trail. On our way down we passed a number of grooves carved into the rock from the cables used to drag the wagons [...]
Hole-in-the-Rock Adventure | Day 2
Posted: April 9, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, camp, death valley, great bend of the san juan river, grey mesa, halftrack junction, henry mountains, history, hole-in-the-rock trail, jeep, lake canyon, navajo mountain, nokai dome, san juan mission, san juan river, the chute, utah
Friday, April 9, 2010 After a cool night in Lake Canyon we were up early and broke down camp. Before heading out, Jared and I went for a hike up Lake Canyon to warm up. When we made it back to camp, we headed back out of Lake Canyon and headed towards the Nokai Dome [...]
Hole-in-the-Rock Adventure | Day 1
Posted: April 8, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, anasazi, blanding, cal black memorial airport, camp, castle ruin, cedar mesa, clay hill pass, clay hills crossing, dripping springs canyon, east fork of lake canyon, george hobbs, halls crossing, hole-in-the-rock trail, jeep, lake canyon, lake powell, mormon trail, navajo mountain, red house cliffs, ruins, salvation knoll, san juan mission, san juan river, utah, wagon grooves, whirlwind bench
Thursday, April 8, 2010 Late last year I finally decided to put together a trip that has been on my to-do list for way too long. I needed to finish driving the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition (San Juan Mission) Route by driving the Hole-in-the-Rock Trail. I had driven pretty much all of the other sections of the [...]
Easter Explorations
Posted: April 4, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2010, arches, beehive butte, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, easter, hell roaring canyon, hell roaring rim, hellroaring canyon, jeep, mineral bottom road, mineral cutoff road, mineral point road, moab, sevenmile canyon, south fork of sevenmile canyon, taylor rim trail, utah
Sunday, April 4, 2010 For Easter, Amanda and I spent our day exploring some new trails east of Moab that we had not been on before. Our first destination was the short but very scenic South Fork of Sevenmile Canyon. Much of this trail was in a sandy wash The further up the canyon we [...]