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 [...]
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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
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Weekend Photos I
Posted: February 5, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, balance rock, castle rock, castle tower, castle valley, colorado, colorado national monument, golden eagle, grand junction, grand mesa, grand valley, independence monument, jeep, kissing couple, monument canyon, moon, onion creek bench, onion creek bench trail, pipe organ, priest and nuns, richardson amphitheater, sentinel spire, sunrise, sunset, uncompahgre plateau, utah, wildlife, window rock
Saturday & Sunday, February 4-5, 2012 It was a lazy weekend for me and I ended up not venturing very far from home. I did manage to get out for a few hours each day and take some photos and do a little exploring in my Jeep. Here’s a few photos I took over the [...]
Light, Clouds and Hiking Around Moab
Posted: January 7, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, adobe mesa, castle valley, fins, fisher towers, grave, jeep, la sal mountains, longbow arch, moab, petroglyphs, poison spider mesa, polka dot man, richardson amphitheater, rock art, sunrise, sunset, utah
Moab Area Rock Art XVIII | In Search of the Polka Dot Man Saturday, January 7, 2012 After taking the first weekend of 2012 off to get a little rest, it was time to get back out there and start exploring again. I was up bright and early to drive to Moab so I could [...]
Laccolith Tour | La Sal Mountains
Posted: August 22, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, Geocaching, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2010, adobe mesa, burn area, burro pass, cabin, castle valley, castle valley overlook, colorado river, dinosaur tracks, fisher mesa, fisher mesa trail, fisher towers, fisher valley, gateway, gateway - castleton road, geyser pass, hoodoo, jeep, john brown canyon, la sal mountain loop road, la sal mountains, laccolith tour, mining history, moab, moon, north beaver mesa, onion creek, onion creek road, pinhook battleground, pinhook valley, polar mesa, reflection, richardson amphitheater, sand flats, sand flats road, sunflowers, sunset, taylor flats, taylor flats road, unaweap canyon, utah, warner lake, willow basin
Saturday & Sunday, August 21-22, 2010 Since Amanda had to work this weekend and I didn’t want to travel too far from home, I headed out to explore the La Sal Mountains as part of my Laccolith Tour this year. I have been to the La Sals a number of times before, so I have [...]
Top of the World & The Cisco Desert
Posted: April 24, 2010 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2010, cisco, cisco desert, cisco wash, colorado river, cowskin canyon, dewey, dewey bridge, dolores river, dolores triangle, dolores triangle road, east cisco wash, fisher towers, fisher valley, gas station, history, jeep, kokopelli trail, la sal mountains, mcgraw bottom, richardson amphitheater, top of the world, utah, west cisco wash
Saturday, April 24, 2010 Yesterday we decided to stick close to home. Amanda had mentioned that she wanted to head up the Top of the World trail soon, so we headed that way for a while. We also explored a few trails and roads I had not been on in the Cisco Desert along the [...]
Labor Day on the Colorado
Posted: September 7, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Paddling, RaftingTags: 2009, castle valley, colorado river, colorado river gorge, hittle bottom, labor day, moab, moab daily, rapids, richardson amphitheater, takeout beach, utah
Labor Day | Monday, September 7, 2009 For Labor Day Andrew, Amanda and I spent a few hours on the Colorado River near Moab. We put in at Hittle Bottom and took out at Takeout Beach. The water was pretty low and slow…plus there was a little wind up the canyon, so Andrew and I [...]
The Kokopelli Trail
Posted: May 10, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, JeepingTags: 2009, camp, castle rocks, cisco landing, cisco wash, colorado, colorado river, dewey bridge, dome plateau, entrada ranch road, fisher mesa, fisher valley, fruita, grand junction, grand loop, jeep, kokopelli 4x4 trail, kokopelli trail, la sal mountain loop road, la sal mountains, loma, mack, mcdonald creek, moab, onion creek road, rabbit valley, richardson amphitheater, rosegarden hill, sand flats road, sidewinder road, thompson canyon, top of the world, utah, viewpoint arch, westwater, westwater creek
Sunday & Monday, May 9-10, 2009 This past weekend I finally got around to completing a trail that has been on my to-do list for quite a while….The Kokopelli Trail. When people hear the name Kokopelli, they usually associate this trail with mountain biking. While it is indeed a popular mountain biking route, this trail [...]
President’s Day Geocaching
Posted: February 16, 2009 by Randy Langstraat in GeocachingTags: 2009, colorado river, dewey bridge, fisher towers, moab, presidents day, richardson amphitheater, utah
President’s Day | Monday, February 16, 2009 Since Amanda and I both had the day off from work, we headed off to do some geocaching around Moab. After finding a few caches on our way there, we had a late lunch at the Moab Brewery and stopped at a bookstore before heading home. Of course, [...]
Exploring the Dolores Triangle
Posted: October 8, 2008 by Randy Langstraat in Exploring, JeepingTags: 2008, cabin, colorado river, confluence, dewey bridge, dolores river, dolores river ford, dolores triangle, dolores triangle road, entrada ranch road, fall fling, hotel mesa, jeep, lake bottom, moab, naxja, pole canyon, pole canyon rim, richardson amphitheater, utah
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 On Wednesday, I decided to skip the official trail rides and head out to explore an area with Ryan (DrMoab) that is not as well known as a lot of the other trails in the Moab area. We were headed for the Dolores Triangle. This area is located out past the [...]