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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Collins Canyon
Posted: March 3, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, HikingTags: 2013, anasazi, basketmaker, cedar mesa, clouds, collins canyon, cowboy camp, granary, grand flat, grand gulch, handprints, pictographs, rock art, ruins, sunrise, the narrows, utah
Sunday, March 3, 2013 On Sunday morning I was up shortly before sunrise and quickly taking down camp so I could get an early start on the hike. I wasn’t planning on taking any photos at sunrise, but when I saw the sky start to light up I quickly grabbed my camera out of the [...]
Kane Gulch
Posted: March 2, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, HikingTags: 2013, anasazi, cairn, camp, cedar mesa, grand flat, grand gulch, handprints, ice, jeep, junction ruins, kane gulch, kane gulch ranger station, moss back butte, navajo mountain, pictographs, rock art, ruins, sunset, tables of the sun, tent, turkey pen, turkey pen ruins, utah
Saturday, March 2, 2013 On Saturday morning I headed south for an early season hike in the Grand Gulch area. I stopped at the Kane Gulch Ranger Station as they opened for the day to pick up an annual Cedar Mesa hiking pass and then started hiking down Kane Gulch from there. There was still [...]
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 [...]
Fable Valley
Posted: November 17, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, bridger jack mesa, canyonlands, cathedral butte, clouds, cottonwood canyon, cottonwood canyon road, dark canyon plateau, fable valley, fortress ruin, handprints, horse mountain, indian creek canyon, jeep, la sal mountains, petroglyphs, pictographs, rock art, ruins, salt creek canyon, six shooter peaks, storms, sunrise, sunset, t-shaped door, utah, ute, ute boulder
Saturday, November 17, 2012 On Saturday morning I was up and driving towards the Abajo Mountains well before the sun was ready to come up. My destination for the day was Fable Valley. I wanted to squeeze in a quick dayhike before snow would make the roads impassable and I wouldn’t be able to return [...]
Bullet Canyon
Posted: October 13, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, bullet canyon, cedar mesa, grand gulch, handprints, jailhouse ruin, kiva, ladder, light beam, perfect kiva, pictographs, rock art, ruins, utah
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 8 Saturday, October 13, 2012 It rained again on Friday night. Not near as much as the previous night, but enough to make everything wet when we took down camp in the morning. Once we got our camp packed up into the Jeep and had a little [...]
Flag Point
Posted: October 9, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, alstrom point, anasazi, dinosaur tracks, flag point, grand staircase, grand staircase - escalante national monument, hoodoos, jeep, kanab, lake powell, paria river, pictographs, rock art, sunset, the rimrocks, toadstools, twilight, utah, vermilion cliffs, white house road
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 4 Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Since there weren’t really any good places nearby to photograph sunrise, we slept in a little later on Tuesday morning. After a little breakfast we packed up camp and took the rough Jeep road to it’s end where we would start our [...]
Cedar Mesa Ruins & Rock Art
Posted: June 10, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, archaeography, armstrong canyon, bigfoot ruins, bighorn ruins, caprock ruin, cave towers, cedar mesa, cedar point, collapsed roof ruin, golden granary, granary, mule canyon, mule canyon towers, natural bridges national monument, perfect granary, petroglyphs, pictographs, potsherds, red bear panel, red sheep ruins, remnant ruin, rock art, ruins, seven towers, shoe rock, shoe rock panel, shoe rock ruins, spiral, sunset, tiny granary, tuwa canyon, utah
Friday – Sunday, June 8-10, 2012 This weekend I met my friend Philippe and his wife on their annual trip to the Southwest from France. This year we planned a day to do a little hiking and exploring on Cedar Mesa (Last year we spent a day hiking in the San Rafael Swell). We spent [...]