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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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 [...]
Badwater to The Racetrack
Posted: February 12, 2013 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2013, badwater, badwater basin, california, camp, clouds, cottonwood mountains, dawn, death valley, death valley national park, death valley trip, homestake campground, mojave desert, moving rocks, nelson range, panamint range, playa, racetrack playa, racetrack valley, sailing stones, salt polygons, sliding rocks, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, telescope peak, tent, the grandstand, the racetrack, twilight, ubehebe peak
Death Valley Trip 2013 | Day 4 Tuesday, February 12, 2013 As usual, I was up and taking down my campsite while it was still dark out. Thanks to the long nights this time of the year I still managed to get plenty of sleep and was wide awake. I drove back to Badwater and [...]
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 [...]
The Vermilion Cliffs to The Grand Staircase
Posted: October 8, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, alpenglow, anasazi, arizona, arizona strip, camp, clouds, grand staircase, grand staircase - escalante national monument, house rock valley road, jeep, johnson canyon, kanab, lower pocket valley, nephi pasture road, petroglyphs, potsherds, poverty ranch, rock art, ruins, sand hills, sunrise, tent, utah, vermilion cliffs, vermilion cliffs national monument, white cliffs, white pocket, white pocket butte, wiregrass petroglyphs, wiregrass reservoir
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 3 Monday, October 8, 2012 On Monday morning we got up early and wandered over to The White Pocket again to catch the sunrise. We arrived plenty early to try and catch the pre-sunrise glow, which was amazing! There’s sometimes an amazing glow that really brings out [...]
Dallas Divide & Owl Creek Pass
Posted: September 30, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, auto race, box factory park, camp, chimney rock, cimarron ridge, cirque mountain, clouds, colorado, courthouse mountain, dallas creek, dallas divide, fall colors, full moon, grand mesa, grand mesa national forest, grand mesa scenic byway, harvest moon, hayden peak, hot air balloons, jeep, lands end, lands end road, mount sneffels, mount sneffels wilderness, night, north pole peak, owl creek pass, ridgway, san juan mountains, sneffels range, stars, sunrise, sunset, teakettle peak, tent, vista point, west dallas creek
Fall Colors 2012 Saturday & Sunday, September 29-30, 2012 This weekend Amanda and I went back down to the edge of the San Juan Mountains for one last weekend of photographing fall colors this year. We ended up spending most of our time along Owl Creek Pass Road and north of the Sneffels Range near [...]
Fall Colors in the Elk Mountains
Posted: September 23, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, Photographing, TouringTags: 2012, aspen, camp, colorado, crested butte, crystal canyon, crystal city, crystal mill, crystal power house, crystal river, dawn, devils punchbowl, east beckwith mountain, elk mountains, fall colors, flat tire, gothic mountain, gothic road, horse ranch park, jeep, kebler pass, kebler pass road, leaves, lost horse mill, marble, mcclure pass, moon, mount baldy, ohio pass, ohio pass road, paonia reservoir, paradise divide, reflections, ruby peak, ruby range, rustler gulch, schofield pass, schofield pass road, sheep mountain power house, smoke, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, tent, the 401, the castles, the dyke, waterfalls, west elk mountains, west elk wilderness, west elks
Fall Colors 2012 Friday – Sunday, September 21-23, 2012 Fall Adventr by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr This weekend I spent my time photographing more fall colors in the Elk Mountains near Crested Butte. I left work early on Friday and made my way to Kebler Pass where I quickly setup camp. I spent the rest of [...]
Chasing Fall Colors
Posted: September 16, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, animas forks, aspens, bear scratches, california gulch, california pass, camp, colorado, corkscrew gulch, corkscrew pass, deadwood falls, deadwood gulch, duncan residence, durango silverton narrow gauge, fall colors, ghost towns, hurricane pass, ironton, ironton park, jeep, lake como, little molas lake, mining history, molas pass, mountain queen mine, ouray, portland mine, poughkeepsie gulch, red mountain mining district, red mountain pass, reflections, san juan mountains, silverton, south mineral creek, sunrise, tent, train, waterfalls, yankee girl
Fall Colors 2012 Saturday & Sunday, September 15-16, 2012 On Saturday morning Amanda and I got in the Jeep and drove south to the San Juan Mountains again. This weekend I was hoping to find some early fall color and had heard a few reports that there were already some nice colors around Red Mountain [...]
Once in a Blue Moon | The Arizona Strip
Posted: September 3, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Four-Wheeling, Hiking, Jeeping, PhotographingTags: 2012, anasazi, angels window, arches, arizona, arizona strip, blue moon, bright angel canyon, bright angel point, buckskin wash, camp, cape royal, cliff spring trail, clouds, colorado river, coyote buttes north, coyote valley, crepuscular rays, freya castle, granary, grand canyon lodge, grand canyon national park, haze, hoodoos, house rock valley road, jacob lake, jeep, kaibab national forest, kaibab plateau, kanab, labor day, lake powell, lightning, marble canyon, moonlight, nankoweap creek, north rim, north rim of the grand canyon, north timp point, page, palisades of the desert, paria plateau, point imperial, pueblo, quicksand, rain, rainbow, rainbow rim, rays of god, reflection, rescue, roosevelt point, ruins, saddle mountain, saddle mountain wilderness, sand cove, second wave, seiber point, south rim, spotlight, starburst, stars, state line campground, steamboat mountain, storm, stud horse point, sunburst, sunrise, sunset, tent, the racetrack, the wave, timp point, top rock, top rock arch, top rock window, unkar creek, unkar delta, utah, vermilion cliffs, vishnu temple, vista encantada, wahweap bay, wahweap overlook, walhalla glades, walhalla glades pueblo, walhalla overlook, walhalla plateau, water, wire pass, wotans throne
Stud Horse Point, Water in The Wave & The North Rim of the Grand Canyon Labor Day Weekend | Friday – Monday, August 31 – September 3, 2012 The phrase ‘once in a blue moon’ has long been used to describe rare or absurd happenings, which is definitely how I would classify this extended weekend [...]
Ruby – Horsethief Canyons
Posted: August 26, 2012 by Randy Langstraat in Camping, Exploring, Hiking, Paddling, Rafting, SwimmingTags: 2012, black ridge canyons wilderness, black rocks, blue heron, camp, colorado, colorado river, coyote, ducky, floating, horsethief bench, horsethief canyon, inflatable kayak, knowles canyon, loma, may flat, mcinnis canyons national conservation area, moore bottom, rabbit valley, rattlesnake, rattlesnake canyon, ruby canyon, sunrise, sunset, tent, utah, westwater, wildlife
Friday – Sunday, August 24-26, 2012 After work on Friday I met Jackson at the Westwater exit on I-70, after the slower than usual drive through two construction zones, so that we could drop his car off at the Westwater takeout along the Colorado River. Our plan this weekend was to float through the Ruby [...]