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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Monument Valley
Posted: March 31, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2013, anasazi, arizona, camel butte, camp, cedar mesa, clouds, east mitten butte, elephant butte, granary, handprints, jeep, merrick butte, mexican hat, mitten shadow, moki dugway, monument valley, moon, navajo nation, north window overlook, portal ruin, rain god mesa, rock art, ruins, sentinel mesa, sun halo, sunrise, sunset, the mittens, three sisters, utah, valley of the gods, west mitten butte, wildcat trail
Friday – Sunday, March 29-31, 2013 I’ve driven past Monument Valley many times in the past but have never actually stopped in the park before. I decided to spend all day Saturday at the park so that I could photograph the Mitten Shadow at sunset. Since that was my main goal this trip, I’ll start [...]
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 [...]
Leaving Death Valley
Posted: February 18, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, amargosa range, anasazi, arizona, arizona strip, badwater, california, dantes view, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, earth shadow, greenwater canyon, greenwater range, greenwater valley, little black mountain, nevada, panamint range, petroglyphs, rock art, shoshone, slab panel, sunrise, sunset, telescope peak, utah, virgin river, virgin river gorge
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 9 & 10 Sunday & Monday, February 17-18, 2013 For my last morning in Death Valley I decided to head back up to Dante’s View to catch the sunrise. Glow on the horizon. Morning Color by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr The Earth Shadow over Badwater and the Panamint Range. Badwater [...]
Eureka Dunes to the Mesquite Dunes
Posted: February 15, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, amargosa range, beatty, big pine road, california, cottonwood canyon, cottonwood mountains, crankshaft junction, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, death valley wash, echo canyon, eureka dunes, eureka valley, ghost town, grapevine mountains, great basin, jeep, last chance range, marble canyon, mesquite flat, mesquite flat sand dunes, narrows, nevada, panamint range, petroglyphs, rhyolite, rock art, sand dunes, slot canyon, stovepipe wells, sunrise, sunset
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 7 Friday, February 15, 2013 After spending much of the week exploring Death Valley and not running into many people, things would finally change today. I would start seeing quite a few more people and even getting stuck behind slow drivers and traffic on the park roads. At first [...]
The Racetrack to Bishop
Posted: February 13, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, bishop, california, cottonwood mountains, darwin falls, dawn, death valley, death valley trip, great basin, jeep, mount tom, moving rocks, owens river, owens river valley, petroglyphs, pleasant valley, pleasant valley pit, racetrack playa, racetrack valley, rock art, sailing stones, sierra nevada, sky rock, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, teakettle junction, the racetrack, twilight, ubehebe crater, volcanic tablelands, waterfalls, white mountains
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 5 Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Up before dawn again…I’m not really sure when I became a morning person? When I got in my Jeep after taking down camp, the LCD screen in my dashboard told me it was 23 degrees out, the coldest morning of the trip so far. [...]
Zabriskie Point to Badwater
Posted: February 11, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, amargosa range, badlands, badwater, beatty, birthday, california, camp, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, grapevine mountains, jeep, klare spring, manly beacon, mojave desert, moon, panamint range, petroglyphs, red cathedral, rock art, salt flat, salt polygons, sunrise, sunset, tent, titus canyon, titus canyon narrows, titus canyon road, twilight, zabriskie point
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 3 Monday, February 11, 2013 My alarm woke me up a few hours before sunrise on Monday morning. I quickly got my camp loaded back in the Jeep and started the short drive over to the popular Zabriskie Point. As usual, I was the first to arrive with plenty [...]
Falling Man to Dante’s View
Posted: February 10, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2013, amargosa range, anasazi, badwater, black mountains, california, camp, clouds, crepuscular rays, dantes peak, dantes view, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, devils throat, falling man, gold butte backcountry byway, gold butte region, gold butte road, greenwater range, greenwater valley, jeep, joshua tree, mojave desert, nevada, panamint range, petroglyphs, rock art, sunset, twilight, virgin anasazi, whitney pocket
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 2 Sunday, February 10, 2013 After a good night of sleep my alarm woke me up before the sun was expected to rise. When I got out of my tent I noticed that some thin clouds had moved in overnight and the sky was completely overcast. I had originally [...]