San Rafael Swell Rock Art VII Sunday, October 30, 2011 After spending Saturday hiking to the Dragonfly Panel, I decided to head over to the San Rafael Swell to visit some new rock art sites. The first site I visited is actually just a little bit west of the Swell along Ivie Creek at the [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Mount Garfield
Posted: October 17, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, MountaineeringTags: 2011, book cliffs, colorado, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, mount garfield, palisade, summit
Monday, October 17, 2011 Living in Grand Junction, I see Mount Garfield towering above the Grand Valley almost every day. Every now and then I think to myself that I should finally hike up to the summit, but since I usually seem to spend most of my time exploring Southern Utah, I always put it [...]
Dinosaur Bones & Petroglyphs
Posted: October 16, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2011, book cliffs, box canyon, colorado, cub creek, dinosaur bones, dinosaur national monument, dinosaur quarry, dinosaur skull, douglas pass, echo park, echo park road, fall colors, fossil bone quarry, fremont, green river, island park, jeep, lizard petroglyphs, mckee springs, petroglyphs, picasso face, pictographs, pool creek, pool creek petroglyphs, rock art, split mountain, standing sheep panel, steamboat rock, sunset, swelter shelter, tour of the tilted rocks, utah, vernal, whispering cave
Return to Dinosaur National Monument Saturday & Sunday, October 15 – 16, 2011 I’ve wanted to get back to Dinosaur National Monument most of the year to re-photograph some of my favorite petroglyphs and visit some new ones. I had to be patient while the Fossil Bone Quarry was being rebuilt because Amanda really wanted [...]
Divide Road Loop
Posted: October 9, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2011, 25 mesa road, colorado, cottonwood pass, delta, divide road, grand junction, jacks canyon, jeep, unaweap canyon, uncompahgre national forest, uncompahgre plateau
Sunday, October 9, 2011 Since I returned home from my Arizona Strip and Southern Utah trip a day early, I thought it might be a good idea to take a drive up on the Uncompahgre Plateau to see if there were any fall colors left to photograph. Unfortunately, what I found was either the aspen [...]
Back Home Through Bluff
Posted: October 8, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Photographing, TouringTags: 2011, agathla peak, anasazi, arizona, bluff, catstair canyon, comb ridge, jump rope man, monument valley, navajo nation, navajo twins, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, sand island, sand island mammoth, the cockscomb, utah
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 8 Saturday, October 8, 2011 Our plan for Saturday was to drive from the Snake Gulch trailhead to Bluff, Utah. We would be going through Page, AZ and making a few stops along the way. When we arrived in Bluff our plans were to search for some [...]
Snake Gulch
Posted: October 7, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, anasazi, arizona, arizona strip, basketmaker, kaibab national forest, kaibab plateau, kanab creek wilderness, paiute, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, snake gulch
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 7 Friday, October 7, 2011 After a cold night of camping near the trailhead for Snake Gulch we woke up shortly after the sun began to rise. We had some breakfast and then set off into the canyon. Our hike turned out to be a long one [...]
The White Pocket
Posted: October 6, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, anasazi, arches, arizona, arizona strip, buckskin wash, house rock valley road, jeep, notch panel, paria plateau, paw hole, petroglyphs, poverty flat, poverty ranch, rock art, sand cove, the cockscomb, vermilion cliffs national monument, white pocket
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 6 Thursday, October 6, 2011 On Thursday we decided to take things easy again since we had another long hike planned for Friday. We didn’t really have any plans for the day, so over breakfast we brainstormed some ideas and decided to head over to the White [...]
Shamans Gallery
Posted: October 5, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, esplanade style, grand canyon national park, grand canyon polychrome, pictographs, rock art, shamans gallery, spirit shelter, tuckup canyon
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 5 Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Visiting the Shamans Gallery, which is also known as the Spirit Shelter, has been high on my to-do list for a while. It is actually the main reason I planned this trip to the Arizona Strip in the first place. We woke [...]