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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘arches’
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
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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 [...]
Pollock Bench
Posted: March 10, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, HikingTags: 2013, arches, black ridge canyons wilderness, book cliffs, colorado, fruita, grand junction, grand valley, mcinnis canyons national conservation area, pollock bench, pollock bench trail, pollock canyon, uncompahgre plateau, window rock tower
Sunday, March 10, 2013 Since the weather was bad all over the Colorado Plateau on Saturday I decided to stick around home this weekend. I did manage to get outside on Sunday after the weather cleared up for a hike on the Pollock Bench trail to the Window Rock Tower. This is the main trail [...]
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 [...]
Upper Antelope Canyon
Posted: November 12, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Canyoneering, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, antelope canyon, arches, arizona, basketmaker, bluff, cameo cliffs, celebration panel, church rock, glen canyon style, la sal mountains, navajo nation, page, petroglyphs, rock art, san juan river, sand island, slot canyon, sunburst, sunset, upper antelope canyon, utah, veterans day, wilson arch
Veterans Day | Monday, November 12, 2012 After spending a great weekend exploring The Paria Plateau it was time to start our drive back home. Before we left I thought it might be a good idea to finally check out Upper Antelope Canyon. I’ve seen plenty of photos from this well-known location but have always [...]
Rock Art & Fall Colors
Posted: October 20, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, arches, basketmaker, dawn, dome plateau, fall colors, la boca arch, mill creek canyon, moab, petroglyphs, rock art, sand flats, sunrise, the highlands, utah
Moab Area Rock Art XXI Saturday, October 20, 2012 This weekend, even right after my week-long trip, I was ready to get out hiking and exploring again. I figured that since I hadn’t been down to Moab for a while it might be a good time to get back for a day trip. Last year [...]
Once in a Blue Moon | The Arizona Strip
Posted: September 3, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, angels window, arches, arizona, arizona strip, blue moon, bright angel canyon, bright angel point, buckskin wash, camp, cape royal, cliff spring trail, clouds, colorado river, coyote buttes north, coyote valley, crepuscular rays, freya castle, granary, grand canyon lodge, grand canyon national park, haze, hoodoos, house rock valley road, jacob lake, jeep, kaibab national forest, kaibab plateau, kanab, labor day, lake powell, lightning, marble canyon, moonlight, nankoweap creek, north rim, north rim of the grand canyon, north timp point, page, palisades of the desert, paria plateau, point imperial, pueblo, quicksand, rain, rainbow, rainbow rim, rays of god, reflection, rescue, roosevelt point, ruins, saddle mountain, saddle mountain wilderness, sand cove, second wave, seiber point, south rim, spotlight, starburst, stars, state line campground, steamboat mountain, storm, stud horse point, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, tent, the racetrack, the wave, timp point, top rock, top rock arch, top rock window, unkar creek, unkar delta, utah, vermilion cliffs, vishnu temple, vista encantada, wahweap bay, wahweap overlook, walhalla glades, walhalla glades pueblo, walhalla overlook, walhalla plateau, water, wire pass, wotans throne
Stud Horse Point, Water in The Wave & The North Rim of the Grand Canyon Labor Day Weekend | Friday – Monday, August 31 – September 3, 2012 The phrase ‘once in a blue moon’ has long been used to describe rare or absurd happenings, which is definitely how I would classify this extended weekend [...]