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 [...]
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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
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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 [...]
Rifle Creek Ice
Posted: January 19, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Ice Climbing, PhotographingTags: 2013, colorado, dawn, ice, ice caves, ice ghost, icicles, lower ice cave, rifle, rifle creek, rifle falls, rifle falls state park, rifle gap, rifle gap state park, rifle mountain park, sunrise, upper ice cave, waterfalls
Saturday, January 19, 2013 I was originally planning on visiting Rifle Falls the previous Sunday. However, when I woke up Sunday morning to leave, it was snowing pretty hard, which was not in the weather forecast the night before. I decided to change my plans and went back to bed instead. That brings us to [...]
Ouray Ice Festival 2013
Posted: January 12, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Hiking, Ice Climbing, PhotographingTags: 2013, box canyon, cascade falls, colorado, ice, ouray, ouray ice festival, ouray ice park, san juan mountains, snow
Saturday, January 12, 2013 On Saturday we battled the frigid temperatures to visit the annual Ouray Ice Festival. We checked it out last year for the first time and had a lot of fun, so we made sure to return again this year. We arrived early and spent most of the day watching the competition [...]
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. [...]
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
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 [...]