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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Transit of Venus & Partial Lunar Eclipse
Posted: June 5, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in PhotographingTags: 2012, astronomy, colorado, colorado river, eagle rim park, grand junction, grand valley, lunar eclipse, moon, night, strawberry moon, sun, sunspots, transit of venus, venus
Monday & Tuesday, June 4-5, 2012 This isn’t the normal kind of ‘trip report’ I post on this website, but I figured since the Transit of Venus will not happen again in my lifetime I would post up a few photos of it here since I spent some time trying to take photos the event. [...]