Friday – Sunday, April 5-7, 2013 After work on Friday I headed back into Utah to meet a few friends in Poison Springs Canyon so that we could hike to Happy Canyon on Saturday and then spend some time visiting a few rock art sites on Sunday. I quickly made it to Hanksville and then [...]
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Happy Canyon & Poison Springs
Posted: April 7, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Canyoneering, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, barrier canyon style, black jump, camp, cave, clouds, dirty devil river, fremont, hanksville, happy canyon, happy canyon narrows, jeep, petroglyphs, pictographs, poison spring, poison springs canyon, rock art, slot canyon, snake in sheep, sunrise, sunset, tent, utah
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After Thanksgiving Swell Trip
Posted: November 24, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2012, barrier canyon style, black friday, book cliffs, buckhorn flat, butch casady, butch cassidy, clouds, desert lake, family panel, feet panel, fenceline boulder, ferron, ferron box, ferron creek, flying dragon, fremont, green river, handprints, historic inscriptions, history, inventory panel, kings crown, kings crown petroglyphs, molen seep, moon, mussentuchit flats, petroglyphs, pictoglyphs, pictographs, price river, quitchupah creek, rain panel, rainbow panel, rock art, san rafael swell, sunrise, sunset, tavaputs plateau, the mounds, utah, ute, wasatch plateau, wild west
The Elusive Horse Canyon
Posted: July 15, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 11 faces, 13 faces, 2012, 9 faces, anasazi, anchor arch, arches, barrier canyon style, camp, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, castle arch, colorado river, cottonwood canyon, eleven faces, faces motif, fighting men, granary, handprints, high dots panel, high five panel, horse canyon, indian creek, indian creek canyon, inside, jeep, kiva, ladder ruin, lizard, moab, needles district, nine faces, one face, paul bunyans potty, peekaboo, peekaboo panel, petroglyphs, pictographs, potsherds, rain, roadside boulder, rock art, ruins, salt creek, salt creek canyon, secret canyon, sparks wall, storage cist, storm, sunrise, tent, thirteen canyon, thirteen faces, tower ruin, trail arch, trail canyon, utah, ute, ute boulder, wildlife
Saturday & Sunday, July 14-15, 2012 I first tried to explore Horse Canyon in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park back in 2008 when I camped at Peekaboo with a few friends. Back then the entrance to the canyon had been washed out pretty good and there was a very deep hole blocking vehicle [...]
Salt Creek Exploring & The Drive Home
Posted: May 28, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Backpacking, Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Photographing, TouringTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, barrier canyon style, big gypsum valley, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, colorado, colorado 141, concentric man, disappointment valley, dolores river, dolores river canyon, flying carpet, flying carpet panel, flying rug, fremont, gateway, glen canyon style, gypsum gap, gypsum gap rockshelter, handprints, indian creek, indian creek canyon, memorial day, monticello, needles district, one arm panel, paradox, peekaboo, petroglyphs, pictographs, potsherds, rock art, ruins, salt creek, salt creek canyon, smoke, sunrise mine wildfire, sunset, unaweep canyon, uncompahgre plateau, uncompahgre style, utah, ute, wildfire
Memorial Weekend in The Needles | Day 3 Memorial Day | Monday, May 28, 2012 After another night of great camping weather we had some breakfast and set out hiking so that we could visit the Flying Carpet Panel. We also explored a few small side canyons before hiking back out to our vehicles near [...]
Devil’s Kitchen to Peekaboo
Posted: May 27, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Backpacking, Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, arches, barrier canyon style, camp, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, colorado river, confluence, devils kitchen, devils lane, devils pocket, elephant canyon, elephant hill, green river, high five panel, needles district, night, peekaboo, pictographs, rock art, salt creek canyon, stars, sunrise, sunset, the needles, trail arch, utah
Cyclone Canyon & The Devil’s Pocket
Posted: May 26, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, barrier canyon style, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, cave of 200 hands, cave of cairns, chesler park, chesler wash, cyclone canyon, devils kitchen, devils lane, devils pocket, elephant hill, floyd panel, handprints, jeep, needles district, night, petroglyphs, pictographs, reverse handprints, rock art, sob hill, square head panel, stars, sunset, the joint trail, the needles, utah
The Needles & Indian Creek
Posted: May 6, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, barrier canyon style, basketmaker, canyonlands, canyonlands national park, devils lane, devils pocket, elephant canyon, elephant hill, floyd panel, fremont, granary, handprints, headdress site, indian creek, indian creek canyon, indian creek falls, jeep, lockhart basin road, needles district, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, ruin, sob hill, utah, waterfalls, white dot panel
Lost Canyon & Squaw Canyon Loop
Posted: May 5, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, barrier canyon style, canyonlands national park, cowboy camp, cowboy history, ellis hatch, granary, handprints, highway, historic inscriptions, history, indian creek, indian creek canyon, lost canyon, lost canyon divide, moon, moonrise, needles district, needles outpost, newspaper rock, newspaper rock recreation site, night, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, ruins, spiral, squaw canyon, squaw flat, sunset, super moon, the needles, utah, ute, vandalism, white arc, white arc alcove, yellow man, yellowman
Saturday, May 5, 2012 On Saturday morning I set out early to drive down to The Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. One of my goals for 2012 was to spend more time hiking and exploring in this amazing area. Unfortunately, because of circumstances earlier this year I was unable to make it down here [...]
New Year’s Eve Along the Reef
Posted: December 31, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, barrier canyon style, buried panel, buried site, fremont, green river, jeep, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, san rafael desert, san rafael reef, san rafael swell, straight wash, utah
Tusher Canyon
Posted: November 26, 2011 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2011, barrier canyon style, book cliffs, fremont, green river, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, tusher canyon, utah