Sunday, December 30, 2012 This is it! My final trip report from 2012. I sure hope 2013 is at least as good to me as 2012 was. For my final trip of the year I had the urge to get out snowshoeing again, except I didn’t want to just head up onto the Grand Mesa [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2012’
Black Canyon Snowshoeing
Posted: December 30, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, Photographing, SnowshoeingTags: 2012, black canyon, black canyon of the gunnison national park, colorado, elk mountains, gunnison point, gunnison river, lichen, montrose, oak flat trail, rim rock trail, snow, snowshoes, south rim, sunrise, tomichi point, west elks, winter
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Christmas Eve Monument Snowstorm
Posted: December 24, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, balance rock, christmas eve, colorado, colorado national monument, fruita, grand junction, grand valley, independence monument, jeep, kissing couple, monument canyon, ottos trail, pipe organ, rim rock drive, sentinel spire, snow, snowstorm, uncompahgre plateau, wedding canyon, window rock
Christmas Eve | Monday, December 24, 2012 On Christmas Eve it snowed all day which is a little unusual for the Grand Valley. When I got out of work, I thought it would be a good idea to drive up to the Colorado National Monument and take some photos in the snowstorm. I knew the [...]
Snowshoeing to Water Dog Reservoir
Posted: December 22, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in SnowshoeingTags: 2012, colorado, grand mesa, grand mesa national forest, mesa lakes, snow, sunburst, sunset, water dog reservoir, winter
Saturday, December 22, 2012 On Saturday evening I drove up onto the Grand Mesa so I could get my first snowshoe trip of the season in. I ended up going to the Mesa Lakes area and following the route that goes past the Water Dog Reservoir. I didn’t bring my camera with me this time, [...]
Christmas in Arches 2012
Posted: December 16, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, arches, arches national park, balanced rock, clouds, devils garden, eye of the whale arch, eye of the whale trail, klondike bluffs, la sal mountains, landscape arch, moab, north window, park avenue, ring arch, skyline arch, south window, sunrise, sunset, tapestry arch, the organ, the windows, three gossips, tower arch, tower of babel, turret arch, utah
Saturday & Sunday, December 15-16, 2012 Each year Amanda and I take a trip to Arches National Park around Christmas time. It’s become kind of a tradition for us. This year we planned the trip two weekends before Christmas because of Amanda’s work schedule closer to the holiday. Some years we only go down for [...]
Marty’s Moab Rock Art Tour
Posted: December 1, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, arrowhead, basketmaker, big elk panel, bighorn sheep, castle valley, castleton tower, clouds, colorado river, fisher towers, four arms panel, highway 128, mill creek, mill creek canyon, moab, petroglyphs, pictographs, richardson amphitheater, river road, rock art, sunrise, sunset, the kings court, the rectory, the titan, twilight, utah, wildlife
Moab Area Rock Art XXII Saturday, December 1, 2012 On Saturday I drove down to Moab to meet up with Marty again for some hiking and exploring. He’s going to be moving to Grand Junction at the beginning of the new year, so we wanted to get at least one more hike in before he [...]
Devil’s Canyon
Posted: November 22, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in HikingTags: 2012, cabin, colorado, devils canyon, fruita, grand junction, grand valley, history, petroglyphs, rock art, round man, uncompahgre plateau, ute
Thanksgiving Day | Thursday, November 22, 2012 On Thanksgiving Day I got out of the house for a few hours and headed over to Devil’s Canyon for a nice dayhike. One of my friends had tipped me off about the location of a petroglyph in the area, so I decided to try and find it. [...]
Fable Valley
Posted: November 17, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, bridger jack mesa, canyonlands, cathedral butte, clouds, cottonwood canyon, cottonwood canyon road, dark canyon plateau, fable valley, fortress ruin, handprints, horse mountain, indian creek canyon, jeep, la sal mountains, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, ruins, salt creek canyon, six shooter peaks, storms, sunrise, sunset, t-shaped door, utah, ute, ute boulder
Saturday, November 17, 2012 On Saturday morning I was up and driving towards the Abajo Mountains well before the sun was ready to come up. My destination for the day was Fable Valley. I wanted to squeeze in a quick dayhike before snow would make the roads impassable and I wouldn’t be able to return [...]