Sunday, January 27, 2013 By now I’m sure many of my regular readers are tired of seeing photos from the Colorado National Monument. For those of you who might feel that way, I’m sorry to say I have another trip report of photos taken there. Better stop reading now! After spending over five hours photographing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘colorado national monument’
Monument Inversion
Posted: January 26, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in PhotographingTags: 2013, balance rock, book cliffs, book cliffs view, clouds, colorado, colorado national monument, fog, fruita, fruita canyon, grand junction, grand valley, independence monument, inversion, jeep, kissing couple, monument canyon, rain, rim rock drive, road, snow, storm, the island, tunnel, uncompahgre plateau, wedding canyon, window rock
Saturday, January 26, 2013 On Saturday morning I slept in a little later than usual. A winter storm moved into the area overnight and when I looked outside towards the Colorado National Monument I could see that the humidity from the storm caused the inversion layer over the valley to thicken. I quickly got dressed [...]
Wedding Canyon & Monument Canyon
Posted: January 1, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, HikingTags: 2013, book cliffs, colorado, colorado national monument, fruita, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, independence monument, monument canyon, mount garfield, new years day, snow, sunset, the island, uncompahgre plateau, wedding canyon, winter
New Year’s Day | Tuesday, January 1, 2013 I ended up staying home for New Year’s Day this year and decided to get out for a hike at the Colorado National Monument in the evening. I always keep meaning to hike up Wedding Canyon, but for some reason or another it has never happened yet. [...]
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 [...]
Miracle Rock
Posted: October 22, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, colorado, colorado national monument, glade park, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, meteor shower, miracle rock, no thoroughfare canyon, orionid meteor shower, orionids, sunrise, sunset, uncompahgre plateau
Sunday & Monday, October 21-22, 2012 Very, very early on Sunday morning Amanda and I headed up to Glade Park to watch the Orionid Meteor Shower from Miracle Rock. Even though we both saw plenty of meteors, I didn’t end up catching any with my camera like I had hoped. Since this was my first [...]
Fall at the Colorado National Monument
Posted: October 17, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, PhotographingTags: 2012, book cliffs, colorado, colorado national monument, fall colors, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, rim rock drive, uncompahgre plateau, ute canyon
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 16-17, 2012 Just a few short days after returning from my adventures in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah, I was ready to get and photograph some of the fall colors here in the Grand Valley. I ended up driving up to the Colorado National Monument two consecutive days after work to [...]