Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 5 Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Up before dawn again…I’m not really sure when I became a morning person? When I got in my Jeep after taking down camp, the LCD screen in my dashboard told me it was 23 degrees out, the coldest morning of the trip so far. [...]
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The Racetrack to Bishop
Posted: February 13, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, bishop, california, cottonwood mountains, darwin falls, dawn, death valley, death valley trip, great basin, jeep, mount tom, moving rocks, owens river, owens river valley, petroglyphs, pleasant valley, pleasant valley pit, racetrack playa, racetrack valley, rock art, sailing stones, sierra nevada, sky rock, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, teakettle junction, the racetrack, twilight, ubehebe crater, volcanic tablelands, waterfalls, white mountains
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Badwater to The Racetrack
Posted: February 12, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, badwater, badwater basin, california, camp, clouds, cottonwood mountains, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, homestake campground, mojave desert, moving rocks, nelson range, panamint range, playa, racetrack playa, racetrack valley, sailing stones, salt polygons, sliding rocks, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, telescope peak, tent, the grandstand, the racetrack, twilight, ubehebe peak
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 4 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 As usual, I was up and taking down my campsite while it was still dark out. Thanks to the long nights this time of the year I still managed to get plenty of sleep and was wide awake. I drove back to Badwater and [...]
Zabriskie Point to Badwater
Posted: February 11, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, amargosa range, badlands, badwater, beatty, birthday, california, camp, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, grapevine mountains, jeep, klare spring, manly beacon, mojave desert, moon, panamint range, petroglyphs, red cathedral, rock art, salt flat, salt polygons, sunrise, sunset, tent, titus canyon, titus canyon narrows, titus canyon road, twilight, zabriskie point
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 3 Monday, February 11, 2013 My alarm woke me up a few hours before sunrise on Monday morning. I quickly got my camp loaded back in the Jeep and started the short drive over to the popular Zabriskie Point. As usual, I was the first to arrive with plenty [...]
Falling Man to Dante’s View
Posted: February 10, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2013, amargosa range, anasazi, badwater, black mountains, california, camp, clouds, crepuscular rays, dantes peak, dantes view, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, devils throat, falling man, gold butte backcountry byway, gold butte region, gold butte road, greenwater range, greenwater valley, jeep, joshua tree, mojave desert, nevada, panamint range, petroglyphs, rock art, sunset, twilight, virgin anasazi, whitney pocket
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 2 Sunday, February 10, 2013 After a good night of sleep my alarm woke me up before the sun was expected to rise. When I got out of my tent I noticed that some thin clouds had moved in overnight and the sky was completely overcast. I had originally [...]
Kohta Circus & Little Finland
Posted: February 9, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, anasazi, anasazi ridge, clouds, death valley trip, devils fire, gold butte backcountry byway, gold butte region, gold butte road, jeep, joshua tree, kohta circus, little finland, mojave desert, mud wash, mud wash petroglyphs, nevada, petroglyphs, rock art, salina, santa clara, santa clara river, snow, storm, sunrise, sunset, twilight, utah, virgin anasazi
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 1 Saturday, February 9, 2013 It’s been an unusually long and cold winter this year in Grand Junction. That’s why I’m glad I started planning my first trip to Death Valley a few months earlier. It would be nice to get out hiking and camping in temperatures that were [...]
Beef Basin & Gypsum Canyon
Posted: November 4, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Canyoneering, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, beef basin, beef basin loop, beef basin road, beef basin spring, beef basin wash, beef basin wash ruins, butler wash overlook, canyonlands panel, descending sheep, fall colors, granary, gypsum canyon, house park, indian creek, indian creek canyon, l-house, l-house ruins, middle park, pappys pasture, petroglyphs, potsherds, ridge site, rock art, ruin park, ruins, salt creek, salt creek canyon, sunrise, sunset, utah, waterfalls
Thursday – Sunday, November 1-4, 2012 After work on Thursday evening I got in my Jeep and drove into Utah again. I had taken Friday off from work and was planning on meeting a group of friends in Beef Basin for a long weekend of camping and exploring the area. A few months earlier my [...]
Bullet Canyon
Posted: October 13, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, bullet canyon, cedar mesa, grand gulch, handprints, jailhouse ruin, kiva, ladder, light beam, perfect kiva, pictographs, rock art, ruins, utah
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 8 Saturday, October 13, 2012 It rained again on Friday night. Not near as much as the previous night, but enough to make everything wet when we took down camp in the morning. Once we got our camp packed up into the Jeep and had a little [...]
Slickhorn Perfect Kiva
Posted: October 12, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, cedar mesa, granary, jeep, kiva, kiva ladder, moki dugway, muley point, perfect kiva, pothole, rain, rainbow, reflection, ruins, slickhorn #1, slickhorn canyon, slickhorn perfect kiva, storm, sunburst, sunset, tent camp, utah, valley of the gods
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 7 Friday, October 12, 2012 Sometime after midnight the skies finally opened up and it started raining. There was a little lightning and thunder, too. It would rain harder and softer but remained pretty constant for the rest of the night. Around the time we wanted to [...]
Rock Art Road
Posted: October 11, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, atlatl, bsaketmaker, caprock ruin, cedar mesa, clouds, duckhead, footprints, golden granary, handprints, jeep, johns canyon, moki dugway, muley point, petroglyphs, rock art, san juan river, sunset, tafoni, utah, valley of the gods
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 6 Thursday, October 11, 2012 After sleeping in a little later on Thursday morning, we had a little breakfast and hiked down the old road past the washout in search of rock art. After looking at the washout closely, I’m pretty sure I could have driven my [...]
Alstrom Point to Johns Canyon
Posted: October 10, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, alstrom point, anasazi, basketmaker, big horse, big water, bluff, bluff horses, camp, cedar mesa, clouds, crosby canyon, dominguez butte, dotted man panel, duckhead man, duckhead man panel, glen canyon national recreation area, glen canyon style, gunsight bay, gunsight butte, jeep, johns canyon, lake powell, mexican hat, navajo mountain, padres butte, page, petroglyphs, rock art, san juan river, sand island, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, utah, ute, warm creek point
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 5 Wednesday, October 10, 2012 On Wednesday morning, after a great night sleeping under the stars on Alstrom Point, we woke up just as dawn was starting to break. I rolled out of my sleeping bag, grabbed my camera and walked a few feet to the edge [...]