Friday – Sunday, April 5-7, 2013 After work on Friday I headed back into Utah to meet a few friends in Poison Springs Canyon so that we could hike to Happy Canyon on Saturday and then spend some time visiting a few rock art sites on Sunday. I quickly made it to Hanksville and then [...]
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Monument Valley
Posted: March 31, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2013, anasazi, arizona, camel butte, camp, cedar mesa, clouds, east mitten butte, elephant butte, granary, handprints, jeep, merrick butte, mexican hat, mitten shadow, moki dugway, monument valley, moon, navajo nation, north window overlook, portal ruin, rain god mesa, rock art, ruins, sentinel mesa, sun halo, sunrise, sunset, the mittens, three sisters, utah, valley of the gods, west mitten butte, wildcat trail
Friday – Sunday, March 29-31, 2013 I’ve driven past Monument Valley many times in the past but have never actually stopped in the park before. I decided to spend all day Saturday at the park so that I could photograph the Mitten Shadow at sunset. Since that was my main goal this trip, I’ll start [...]
Druid Arch & Canyonlands Overlook
Posted: March 17, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, anticline overlook, arches, camp, canyon rims recreation area, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, canyonlands overlook, clouds, colorado plateau, colorado river, druid arch, elephant canyon, elephant hill, hatch point, hurrah pass, jeep, kane creek canyon, lockhart basin, mitten butte, moab, north six shooter peak, pyramid butte, six shooter peaks, sunset, the needles, the portal, united nations tablet, utah
Friday – Sunday, March 15-17, 2013 After work on Friday I got in my Jeep and started driving towards The Needles District of Canyonlands. I reached a campsite just outside the park shorty before sunset. As I was getting my tent setup the setting sun broke free of the clouds and lit up the red [...]
Mid-Week Moab
Posted: March 12, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2013, arches, arches national park, behind the rocks, colorado river, courthouse wash, delicate arch, fiery furnace, kings bottom, la sal mountains, long canyon, moab, sunrise, sunset, utah
Monday – Tuesday, March 11-12, 2013 Long story short, I had ended up with two passes for a ranger guided tour of the Fiery Furnace in Arches National Park on Tuesday and had taken the day off from work so I could go. The weather in Moab was looking good so I headed down after [...]
Collins Canyon
Posted: March 3, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, HikingTags: 2013, anasazi, basketmaker, cedar mesa, clouds, collins canyon, cowboy camp, granary, grand flat, grand gulch, handprints, pictographs, rock art, ruins, sunrise, the narrows, utah
Sunday, March 3, 2013 On Sunday morning I was up shortly before sunrise and quickly taking down camp so I could get an early start on the hike. I wasn’t planning on taking any photos at sunrise, but when I saw the sky start to light up I quickly grabbed my camera out of the [...]
Kane Gulch
Posted: March 2, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, HikingTags: 2013, anasazi, cairn, camp, cedar mesa, grand flat, grand gulch, handprints, ice, jeep, junction ruins, kane gulch, kane gulch ranger station, moss back butte, navajo mountain, pictographs, rock art, ruins, sunset, tables of the sun, tent, turkey pen, turkey pen ruins, utah
Saturday, March 2, 2013 On Saturday morning I headed south for an early season hike in the Grand Gulch area. I stopped at the Kane Gulch Ranger Station as they opened for the day to pick up an annual Cedar Mesa hiking pass and then started hiking down Kane Gulch from there. There was still [...]
Leaving Death Valley
Posted: February 18, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, amargosa range, anasazi, arizona, arizona strip, badwater, california, dantes view, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, earth shadow, greenwater canyon, greenwater range, greenwater valley, little black mountain, nevada, panamint range, petroglyphs, rock art, shoshone, slab panel, sunrise, sunset, telescope peak, utah, virgin river, virgin river gorge
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 9 & 10 Sunday & Monday, February 17-18, 2013 For my last morning in Death Valley I decided to head back up to Dante’s View to catch the sunrise. Glow on the horizon. Morning Color by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr The Earth Shadow over Badwater and the Panamint Range. Badwater [...]
All Around Death Valley
Posted: February 16, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2013, aguereberry point, alpenglow, amargosa range, artists drive, artists palette, california, charcoal kilns, clouds, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, emigrant canyon, emigrant canyon road, eureka mine, furnace creek wash, golden canyon, jeep, mahogany flat, manly beacon, mining history, mosaic canyon, panamint range, red cathedral, snow, stovepipe wells, sunrise, sunset, thorndike, tucki mountain, twenty mule team canyon, zabriskie point
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 8 Saturday, February 16, 2013 Today would be my last full day in Death Valley National Park. I spent the day visiting a few popular areas of the park I had skipped over earlier in the week so I could at least check them out. While I would spend [...]
Eureka Dunes to the Mesquite Dunes
Posted: February 15, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, amargosa range, beatty, big pine road, california, cottonwood canyon, cottonwood mountains, crankshaft junction, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, death valley wash, echo canyon, eureka dunes, eureka valley, ghost town, grapevine mountains, great basin, jeep, last chance range, marble canyon, mesquite flat, mesquite flat sand dunes, narrows, nevada, panamint range, petroglyphs, rhyolite, rock art, sand dunes, slot canyon, stovepipe wells, sunrise, sunset
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 7 Friday, February 15, 2013 After spending much of the week exploring Death Valley and not running into many people, things would finally change today. I would start seeing quite a few more people and even getting stuck behind slow drivers and traffic on the park roads. At first [...]