Friday – Sunday, August 24-26, 2012 After work on Friday I met Jackson at the Westwater exit on I-70, after the slower than usual drive through two construction zones, so that we could drop his car off at the Westwater takeout along the Colorado River. Our plan this weekend was to float through the Ruby [...]
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Ruby – Horsethief Canyons
Posted: August 26, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Paddling, Rafting, SwimmingTags: 2012, black ridge canyons wilderness, black rocks, blue heron, camp, colorado, colorado river, coyote, ducky, floating, horsethief bench, horsethief canyon, inflatable kayak, knowles canyon, loma, may flat, mcinnis canyons national conservation area, moore bottom, rabbit valley, rattlesnake, rattlesnake canyon, ruby canyon, sunrise, sunset, tent, utah, westwater, wildlife
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Gray Canyon and the Island in the Sky
Posted: August 5, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Paddling, Photographing, Rafting, SwimmingTags: 2012, big flat, birds eye butte, book cliffs, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, chipmunks, colorado, crows head spire, ekker butte, fremont, grand mesa, gray canyon, green river, green river daily, green river overlook, inflatable kayak, lands end, lands end road, marlboro point, nefertiti petroglyphs, nefertiti rock, observatory, petroglyphs, price river, price river junction, rock art, shafer canyon, soda springs basin, stillwater canyon, sunrise, sunset, swaseys rapid, thunder mountain, utah, white rim, wildlife
Saturday & Sunday, August 4-5, 2012 On Saturday I met up with Jackson and his family so that we could float a section of the Green River known as the Green River Daily. This section is a few miles long and located within Gray Canyon a few miles north of the town of Green River. [...]
Independence Day in Glenwood Canyon
Posted: July 4, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2012, colorado, colorado river, ducky, glenwood canyon, glenwood springs, grizzly creek, independence day, inflatable kayak, no name, roaring fork, south canyon
Grizzly Creek to South Canyon Independence Day | Wednesday, July 4, 2012 This past weekend when Jackson and I were hiking up Uncompahgre Peak he suggested that we take our boats to Glenwood Canyon for the 4th of July, and I thought that sounded like an excellent idea…so we did. We decided to put in [...]
Bridgeport to Whitewater
Posted: May 12, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Paddling, RaftingTags: 2012, bear paw panel, book cliffs, bridgeport, colorado, gunnison river, mount garfield, petroglyphs, rock art, triangle canyon, triangle mesa, ute, whitewater
Saturday, May 12, 2012 Over the winter I bought my own inflatable kayak so that I wouldn’t have to rent or borrow one anymore, and I’ve been looking forward to getting it on the river for the first time this year. Originally, Jackson and I wanted to go on a day trip through Ruby-Horsethief Canyon [...]
Palisade River Bend Park to Corn Lake
Posted: September 25, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2011, book cliffs, colorado, colorado river, corn lake, grand junction, grand valley, inflatable kayak, mount garfield, mount lincoln, palisade, river bend park
Sunday, September 25, 2011 After spending Saturday at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and getting home later than normal again, Amanda and I woke just before sunrise so that we could watch the sun come up over the Grand Mesa from our hot tub. Once it was up, I had some breakfast and [...]
Archaeology on the Gunnison River
Posted: August 28, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Paddling, RaftingTags: 2011, archaeology, colorado, delta, float, gunnison river, inflatable kayak, north fork of the gunnison river, petroglyphs, river, rock art
Sunday, August 28, 2011 On Sunday I met up with my friend Jackson and his wife Sarah to float a section of the Gunnison River from the North Fork to Colorado Highway 65 near Delta. It’s a pretty easy stretch of the river, which is a good thing since this was my first time in [...]
Grizzly Creek to Tibbett’s
Posted: June 26, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2010, colorado, colorado river, glenwood canyon, glenwood springs, grizzly creek, no name, rapids, tibbetts, two rivers park
Saturday, June 26, 2010 We finally managed to get on the river for the first time this year! We were supposed to do this stretch of the Colorado a few weeks ago, but that trip was cancelled because of weather. Luckily we were able to find time this weekend to try it again. Here’s a [...]
Labor Day on the Colorado
Posted: September 7, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2009, castle valley, colorado river, colorado river gorge, hittle bottom, labor day, moab, moab daily, rapids, richardson amphitheater, takeout beach, utah
Labor Day | Monday, September 7, 2009 For Labor Day Andrew, Amanda and I spent a few hours on the Colorado River near Moab. We put in at Hittle Bottom and took out at Takeout Beach. The water was pretty low and slow…plus there was a little wind up the canyon, so Andrew and I [...]
Grizzly Creek to South Canyon
Posted: June 28, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2009, colorado, colorado river, glenwood canyon, glenwood springs, grizzly creek, rapids, south canyon, two rivers park
Sunday, June 28, 2009 Today I was invited by a friend at work to raft the Colorado River with him from Grizzly Creek to South Canyon near Glenwood Springs. Since Amanda and I had nothing planned for today, we decided to go with. Another guy I work with also had his boat with and a [...]
Floating the Gunnison
Posted: May 9, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Paddling, RaftingTags: 2009, bridgeport, cabin, colorado, dominguez canyon, escalante, escalante canyon, gunnison river, train
Saturday, May 9, 2009 On Saturday I was invited by a friend at work to take his raft down the Gunnison River from Escalante to Bridgeport. He’s planning a big trip on the Yampa in a few weeks and needed to get more practice on the water beforehand. This is a pretty easy section of [...]