Moab Area Rock Art III Sunday, January 30, 2011 On Sunday I headed back to Moab to search out some rock art in Mill Creek Canyon. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to hike up canyon as far as I had hoped because the water was too high and it was pretty cold out, but I did [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Kane Creek Canyon & Potash Road
Posted: January 29, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, colorado river, kane creek, kane creek canyon, many sheep panel, moab, petroglyph canyon, petroglyphs, pritchett canyon, rock art, utah
Moab Area Rock Art II Saturday, January 29, 2011 On Saturday, Amanada and I headed back to Moab in search of rock art. We headed to Kane Creek Canyon and climbed up a side canyon filled with petroglyphs. We ended up hiking all the way over to Pritchett Canyon. Here’s a few photos from our [...]
Cave 7
Posted: January 23, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, anasazi, basketmaker, box canyon ruin, cave 7, pastel alcove ruin, richard wetherill, ruins, utah
Sunday, January 23, 2011 Ninety-seven skeletons were taken from this cave. Many of the men showed evidences of having been killed, as spearpoints were found between the ribs and arrowpoints in the backbones. One case where the hip bones were pinned together wtih a huge obsidian spearpoint shows that no small amount of force was [...]
Colorado River Gorge Petroglyphs & More…
Posted: January 22, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, arches national park, balanced rock, basketmaker, behind the rocks, centipede panel, colorado river, colorado river gorge, jeep, kane creek, kane creek canyon, la sal mountains, moab, petroglyphs, poison spider mesa, potash road, rock art, sunset, the crab, utah
Moab Area Rock Art I Saturday, January 22, 2011 Since I am planning on making a number of trips to the Moab area in search of rock art this year, I’ve decided to make it easy on myself with the naming convention for these trip reports. Here’s the first of this years ‘Moab Area Rock [...]
Escalante Canyon Petroglyphs
Posted: January 9, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2011, bighorn sheep, colorado, delta, dominguez - escalante national conservation area, escalante canyon, escalante creek, gunnison river, petroglyphs, rock art, uncompahgre plateau, ute, ute petroglyph panel, vandalism, wildlife
Sunday, January 9, 2011 On Sunday, Amanda and I took a short trip to Escalante Canyon near Delta to locate some new petroglyphs and to revisit some ones I’ve been to before. The new panels we found were along the Gunnison River. Dominguez-Escalante NCA by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr Centipede by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr Escalante Hunting [...]
Snowshoeing the West Bench Trail
Posted: January 8, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, SnowshoeingTags: 2011, colorado, grand mesa, grand mesa national forest, jumbo reservoir, mesa lakes, powderhorn, snow, sunset lake, union cafe, west bench, west bench trail
Saturday, January 8, 2011 My first official trip report of 2011. Amanda had to work in Avon, so I headed up on the Grand Mesa to get in my first snowshoe trip of the season. There was an inversion in the Grand Valley, so it was nice to get up above the haze and into [...]