Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 8 Saturday, February 16, 2013 Today would be my last full day in Death Valley National Park. I spent the day visiting a few popular areas of the park I had skipped over earlier in the week so I could at least check them out. While I would spend [...]
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All Around Death Valley
Posted: February 16, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2013, aguereberry point, alpenglow, amargosa range, artists drive, artists palette, california, charcoal kilns, clouds, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, emigrant canyon, emigrant canyon road, eureka mine, furnace creek wash, golden canyon, jeep, mahogany flat, manly beacon, mining history, mosaic canyon, panamint range, red cathedral, snow, stovepipe wells, sunrise, sunset, thorndike, tucki mountain, twenty mule team canyon, zabriskie point
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Kohta Circus & Little Finland
Posted: February 9, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, anasazi, anasazi ridge, clouds, death valley trip, devils fire, gold butte backcountry byway, gold butte region, gold butte road, jeep, joshua tree, kohta circus, little finland, mojave desert, mud wash, mud wash petroglyphs, nevada, petroglyphs, rock art, salina, santa clara, santa clara river, snow, storm, sunrise, sunset, twilight, utah, virgin anasazi
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 1 Saturday, February 9, 2013 It’s been an unusually long and cold winter this year in Grand Junction. That’s why I’m glad I started planning my first trip to Death Valley a few months earlier. It would be nice to get out hiking and camping in temperatures that were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]