Halloween | Sunday, October 31, 2010 On Sunday I was on my own again and didn’t want to get too far from home. I decided to head over into Utah to do some more exploring around the Yellow Cat and Highlands areas just north of Arches National Park. I started out by checking out a [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Onion Creek | La Sals | Secret Spire
Posted: October 24, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2010, arches, aspens, castle valley, clouds, fall colors, haystack mountains, la sal mountain loop road, la sal mountains, onion creek, onion creek narrows, oowah lake, pinhook valley, sand flats road, scrub oak, secret spire, sunset, utah
Sunday, October 24, 2010 Sunday I was on my own. I didn’t want to get too far away from home, but I really had no idea of where I was going when I left the house. I pointed my Jeep towards Moab and started driving. Along the way I decided to stop at Onion Creek [...]
San Rafael Desert Loop
Posted: October 23, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2010, arches, book cliffs, bull bottom, chaffin geyser, chaffin ranch, champagne geyser, colonnade arch, five hole arch, geyser, green river, green river road, hans flat road, keg point, lightning, san rafael desert, san rafael river, storm, trin-alcove bend, utah
Saturday, October 23, 2010 On Saturday morning Amanda and I headed to Green River to follow the San Rafael Desert Loop. With all the rain the area had received lately we were a little worried about the condition of the roads in the area, but we lucked out and most of them were in good [...]
Beef Basin Weekend | Saturday
Posted: October 9, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2010, anasazi, beef basin, beef basin wash, calf canyon, cliff dwelling, granary, house park, jeep, middle park, ruin canyon, ruin park, ruins, sunset, tower, utah
Saturday, October 9, 2010 After a cold night of camping we had some breakfast and started the day out by heading up Beef Basin Wash. The first few miles of this road had been recently graded and it was in good shape, however at the first gate is where the recent maintenance had stopped. As [...]
Beef Basin Weekend | Friday
Posted: October 8, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2010, arches, beef basin, bull valley, bull valley road, cottonwood canyon, cottonwood canyon road, double stack granary, farm house ruin, gypsum canyon, homewater spring, horse mountain, house park, middle park, middle park granary, night, ruin park, star trails, tower, tower star trails, utah
Friday, October 8, 2010 On Friday morning Amanda and I loaded up the Jeep and headed to Beef Basin for a three-day weekend. I had been planning this weekend for a while since I wanted to spend some quality time exploring Beef Basin. We made it to Monticello to fuel up and then took UT [...]
Hole-in-the-Rock to Island in the Sky
Posted: October 5, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2010, anasazi, arches, aspens, aztek butte, boulder mountain, camp, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, clouds, escalante, fiftymile mountain, flooding, fog, granary, hole-in-the-rock road, horsethief campground, island in the sky, kaiparowits plateau, moab, rain, ruins, snow, storm, straight cliffs, utah
Southern Utah Wanderings 2010 | Day 4 Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Tuesday morning we were stuck in our tents until there was finally a short break in the rain. It had rained pretty much all night and we were a bit sick of camping in the rain. During that short break we took down and [...]