Sunday, August 28, 2011 On Sunday I met up with my friend Jackson and his wife Sarah to float a section of the Gunnison River from the North Fork to Colorado Highway 65 near Delta. It’s a pretty easy stretch of the river, which is a good thing since this was my first time in [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Archaeology on the Gunnison River
Posted: August 28, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Paddling, RaftingTags: 2011, archaeology, colorado, delta, float, gunnison river, inflatable kayak, north fork of the gunnison river, petroglyphs, river, rock art
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Imogene Pass
Posted: August 27, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, bridal veil falls, colorado, imogene pass, jeep, ouray, richmond falls, san juan mountains, savage basin, telluride
Saturday, August 27, 2011 On Saturday, Amanda and I took a nice leisurely drive over Imogene Pass from Telluride to Ouray. We started out the day with a visit to Bridal Veil Falls for a few photos before driving over Imogene Pass. Afterwards, we stopped in Ridgway for some burgers before heading back home. It [...]
Deer Creek Petroglyphs
Posted: August 23, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, bridgeport, colorado, deer creek, deer creek petroglyphs, gunnison river, petroglyphs, rock art, uncompahgre plateau, ute
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 This is just a quick and short report from my after-work excursion today. Earlier in the day I learned about the location of a new petroglyph panel, known as the Deer Creek Petroglyphs, which happens to be located near my house, so I set out this evening to visit it and [...]
White Rocks Rock Art
Posted: August 22, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, HikingTags: 2011, colorado, colorado national monument, grand junction, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, vandalism, white rocks
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 Earlier today I found some info that helped lead me to some rock art located in the Colorado National Monument which is pretty close to home. After work I went home and changed before heading out in search of them. Luckily, they were easier to find than I thought they would [...]
Colorado Adventure 2011
Posted: August 10, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 14ers, 2011, bear lake, boulder wagon road, buffalo pass, buford, colorado, craig, forest canyon view, front range, gore range, iceberg pass, jeep, jones pass, mount evans, mountain goats, national park, needle eye tunnel, never summer mountains, new castle, old fall river road, park range, peak bagging, peak to peak highway, railroad grade, rifle sight notch trestle, rocky mountain national park, rollins pass, snow drifts, steamboat springs, thornburgh battle sight, trail ridge road, trestle, twin trestles, white river national forest, winter park, yellow jacket pass
Monday-Wednesday, August 8-10, 2011 Last Sunday I headed out to the Front Range area so I could do a little exploring. After getting caught in traffic on I-70 that turned the 4 hour drive into a 7 hour drive, I met up with Amanda and her family at the hotel they had reserved for a [...]
Mount Sneffels
Posted: August 6, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, MountaineeringTags: 14ers, 2011, blue lakes, blue lakes pass, colorado, gilpin peak, mount sneffels, mount sneffels wilderness, peak bagging, san juan mountains, uncompahgre national forest, yankee boy basin
Saturday, August 6, 2011 This morning I set out with my friend Jackson to climb my second 14er (after climbing Handies Peak last year). We got a very early start and drove to the upper trailhead in Yankee Boy Basin. Unfortunately, about halfway up, Jackson started not feeling so well and had to turn around. [...]
East Entrance Canyon Petroglyphs
Posted: August 5, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, HikingTags: 2011, colorado, colorado national monument, east entrance canyon, fruita, grand junction, grand valley, monument canyon, petroglyphs, rock art, uncompahgre plateau, ute
Friday, August 5, 2011 After I got out of work, I decided to head back over to the Colorado national Monument to search of some new petroglyphs I had read about. I only knew they were located in East Entrance Canyon and had no other specific information about their location, but I had a guess [...]
Book Cliffs Sunset
Posted: August 1, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, book cliffs, colorado, grand junction, grand valley, sunset
Monday, August 1, 2011 I made a last minute decision this evening to head on over to the Book Cliffs to try and photograph the sunset. Shortly before sunset I hopped in my Jeep and drove north to the base of the Book Cliffs until I found a spot I liked. Then I hiked up [...]