Sunday, November 27, 2011 After spending the last two days exploring Utah, I decided to stay close to home on Sunday. I have wanted to revisit the petroglyph panels in Big Dominguez Canyon, so I headed over to Bridgeport in the morning and started hiking. I had a later start than usual and was surprised [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Return to Big Dominguez Canyon
Posted: November 27, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, big dominguez canyon, bridgeport, colorado, deer creek, deer creek petroglyphs, gunnison river, lower dominguez canyon, petroglyphs, rock art, uncompahgre plateau, ute
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Black Friday in Nine Mile Canyon
Posted: November 25, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, big buffalo, book cliffs, dancing coyote, dry fork, family panel, first site, fremont, great hunt panel, nine mile canyon, owl panel, petroglyphs, pictographs, pregnant buffalo, rasmussen cave, rock art, sandhill crane panel, tavaputs plateau, utah, ute, wellington
Black Friday | Friday, November 25, 2011 I wanted to get back to Nine Mile Canyon one more time before the year was over, so I figured that Black Friday would be the perfect time. Instead of getting up early to try and score a deal at a big box store, I was up early [...]
Old Gordon Trail
Posted: November 24, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, HikingTags: 2011, book cliffs, colorado, colorado national monument, echo canyon, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, mount garfield, no thoroughfare canyon, no thoroughfare petroglyphs, old gordon trail, petroglyphs, rock art, serpents trail, uncompahgre plateau
Colorado National Monument Thanksgiving | Thursday, November 24, 2011 Amanda had to work for a few hours on Thanksgiving, so while she was at work I decided to head on over to the Colorado National Monument and hike the Old Gordon Trail. It’s one of the few trails in the park that I had not [...]
Exploring the Book Cliffs near Green River
Posted: November 19, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, book cliffs, coal canyon, fremont, green river, jeep, la sal mountains, lone boulder, man-eating snake, petroglyphs, rock art, slot panel, stubb canyon, sunset, utah
Book Cliffs Rock Art II Saturday, November 19, 2011 After a morning and afternoon of hiking and exploring around Moab, Marty and I headed north to the Book Cliffs to visit a couple more new panels since we still had a few hours of sunlight left. Soon we arrived at the foot of the Book [...]
Veterans Day Weekend at Natural Bridges
Posted: November 12, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2011, anasazi, arches, atlatl, basketmaker, cedar mesa, granary, handprints, horsecollar ruins, horsecollar site, kachina bridge, kachina bridge ruin, kachina ruins, kiva, lightning bolt ruins, natural bridges national monument, owachomo bridge, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, rock ruin, ruin rock, ruin rock panel, ruin rock petroglyphs, ruins, shield bearers, sipapu bridge, utah, veterans day, white canyon, white man, white man pictograph, white man ruins
November Cedar Mesa & Comb Ridge Trip 2011 Friday & Saturday, November 11-12, 2011 Right after an awesome three day weekend in Northern Arizona I was headed down to Cedar Mesa with my friend Jackson for another long weekend over Veterans Day weekend. Our destination and goal for this trip was to explore Natural Bridges [...]
The Wave Weekend
Posted: November 6, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Photographing, TouringTags: 2011, anasazi, arches, arizona, betatakin, california condor, colorado river, coyote buttes north, echo cliffs, glen canyon national recreation area, horseshoe bend, hot air balloons, jeep, lower antelope canyon, marble canyon, navajo bridges, navajo nation, navajo national monument, notch panel, page, page balloon regatta, petroglyphs, rock art, ruins, slot canyon, the wave, vermilion cliffs, vermilion cliffs national monument, vermilion cliffs wilderness
Friday-Sunday, November 4-6, 2011 The Wave, located just south of the Utah-Arizona state line in the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area, is one of those places that every photographer and hiker wants to visit. It’s hard to blame them because it is such a unique and amazing area. Unfortunately, because of it’s popularity, the BLM has [...]