Saturday, March 26, 2011 Earlier today, Jackson and I headed west into Utah so that I could check on a geocache that I hid last summer. Once we checked on the cache we hiked around the rim of the nearby canyon and did a little exploring. A view down into the canyon we hiked around. [...]
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Laccolith Tour | La Sal Mountains
Posted: August 22, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2010, adobe mesa, burn area, burro pass, cabin, castle valley, castle valley overlook, colorado river, dinosaur tracks, fisher mesa, fisher mesa trail, fisher towers, fisher valley, gateway, gateway - castleton road, geyser pass, hoodoo, jeep, john brown canyon, la sal mountain loop road, la sal mountains, laccolith tour, mining history, moab, moon, north beaver mesa, onion creek, onion creek road, pinhook battleground, pinhook valley, polar mesa, reflection, richardson amphitheater, sand flats, sand flats road, sunflowers, sunset, taylor flats, taylor flats road, unaweap canyon, utah, warner lake, willow basin
Saturday & Sunday, August 21-22, 2010 Since Amanda had to work this weekend and I didn’t want to travel too far from home, I headed out to explore the La Sal Mountains as part of my Laccolith Tour this year. I have been to the La Sals a number of times before, so I have [...]
100th Geocache Found
Posted: August 14, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, arches, dome plateau, jeep, la boca arch, mining history, parco mines, utah, winter camp ridge, yellow cat, yellow cat flat
Saturday, August 14, 2010 One of my many goals this year was to reach my 100th geocache find. So while we were out yesterday evening hiding our first geocache, Amanda and I searched for our 100th together…and succeeded. Here’s a few photos from our evening. Winter Camp Ridge La Boca Arch The 100th cache we [...]
GC2DA96
Posted: August 14, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Geocaching, JeepingTags: 2010, arches national park, delicate arch, delicate view, jeep, utah, winter camp ridge
Saturday, August 14, 2010 That’s the code for our first hidden geocache named ‘Delicate View‘ It was just approved this evening and is now ready to be found. Check it out here: http://coord.info/GC2DA96 As I mentioned in the previous post, one of my goals for this year was to hide a geocache. I’ve been slowing [...]
Out of the Heat & Into the Mountains!
Posted: July 18, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Geocaching, JeepingTags: 2010, anvil mountain, buffalo boy mine, cabin, camp, colorado, cunningham gulch, deer park, jeep, kendall gulch, kendall mountain, kite lake, mining history, old lime creek road, owl creek pass, ridgway, rio grande, san juan mountains, silverton, stony pass, swansea gulch, titusville mine, tram, uncompahgre national forest
Saturday & Sunday, July 17-18, 2010 With temperatures over 100 degrees in Grand Junction this weekend, we headed up into the mountains for some cooler temperatures. We made our way south to Silverton before heading over Stony Pass. After stopping to find a geocache along the small Rio Grande, we headed for Kite Lake. Kite [...]
Alpine Loop Day Trip
Posted: July 5, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, alpine loop, animas forks, colorado, darley mountain, engineer mountain, engineer pass, ghost town, jeep, mickey breen mine, million dollar highway, mineral creek, mineral point, mining history, oh point, ouray, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountain pass, san juan mountains, silverton
Monday, July 5, 2010 Since I had Monday off from work and Amanda had to work I decided to head down to the San Juans for a little day trip. My destination was part of the Alpine Loop and my goals were to find a few geocaches along the way and get a little hiking [...]
Independence Day Weekend in the Flat Tops
Posted: July 4, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Geocaching, JeepingTags: 2010, adams lake, bison lake, camp, coffee pot corral road, coffee pot road, colorado, deep creek, deep creek overlook, dotsero, flat tops, flat tops wilderness, glenwood springs, grizzly jeep trail, haypress lake, heart lake, jack springs road, jeep, no name canyon, ten mile park, transfer trail, windy point
Saturday & Sunday, July 3-4, 2010 This weekend Amanda and I headed up into the Flat Tops to explore an area we hadn’t been to yet. We started in Dotsero and headed up Coffee Pot Road, following a number of side roads to see where they went. We made a large loop that brought us [...]
Arch Hunting the Dome Plateau Area
Posted: March 27, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, arches, arches national park, arrow head arch, arrowhead arch, cave spring, cisco, clouds, colorado river, covert arch, dancing bear panel, delicate arch, dewey bridge, dinosaur tracks, dome plateau, jeep, kokopelli trail, la boca arch, lost spring canyon, moab, petroglyphs, pole canyon, rock art, squaw park, squaw window, the highlands, utah, ute, wind caves, winter camp ridge, yellow cat, yellow cat flat, yellow cat road, yellow jacket canyon
Saturday, March 27, 2010 On Saturday morning, Amanda and I headed out to the Dome Plateau area north of Moab in search of some arches. The main arch I wanted to find was Covert Arch above Lost Spring Canyon. I figured since we were planning on looking for at least one arch, I should stop [...]
Hells & Things
Posted: March 20, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2010, black hole, colorado river, colorado river gorge, diving board rock, fins and things, hells gate, hells revenge, jeep, la sal mountains, moab, sand flats, sand flats recreation area, sand flats road, utah
Saturday, March 20, 2010 Today, Amanda and I headed to the Sand Flats Recreation Area just outside of Moab. Our goal was to run the Hells Revenge and Fins & Things trails. It has been a few years since I have run either of these trails, so it was about time to run them again. [...]
Geostash Challenge 2009
Posted: August 16, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, JeepingTags: 2009, cabin, evanston, flaming gorge, geostash challenge, gold hill road, intermountain chapter, jeep, naxja, rain, snow, uinta mountains, utah, vernal, whitney lake, wyoming
Friday – Sunday, August 14-16, 2009 After being home for only 4 days (all of which I had to work) from my 9 day Colorado Adventure, I headed to northern Utah to spend the weekend at the NAXJA Intermountain Chapter’s Geostash Challenge. I’ve wanted to attend this event the last two years it was held, [...]