Microposts Archive

A little while back I noticed that all the photo galleries on the site were broken and not working properly, but I didn't have the time to fix them until just recently. I also changed the software that powers them and made them better at the same time, so if

I just noticed that my Flickr account hit 10 million views today! The last time I posted an update was when it reached 5 million views back in 2018, so I probably won't mention it again until it reaches 20 million...

This Classic Vernal Style petroglyph panel is one of my favorites, so I guess that's why I climbed out onto the narrow ledge a second time for some better photos. I doubt I will be doing that again!

After spending the night at the Rainbow Park Campground we caught some fog and fall colors in Island Park at Dinosaur National Monument.

Here are a couple photos of an amazing Barrier Canyon Style pictograph panel we visited last week.

The spectrum of colors in the Abajo Mountains (Blue Mountain) were pretty amazing when we drove through last week.

What is a Brocken Spectre? A Brocken Spectre, also called Brocken Bow, Mountain Spectre, or Spectre of the Brocken is the magnified shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite the Sun's direction. The figure's head is often surrounded by the halo-like rings of colored light forming a Glory, which

After spending Saturday morning on the Grand Mesa, I'm now ready to start turning my attention back to the Colorado Plateau and I'm pretty sure I won't be hiking any more peaks in the mountains this year. At the beginning of the summer I had set myself a modest goal

A beautiful Sunday morning in the Southern Sawatch Mountains.

Rain, smoke, clouds, snow and a lot more rain! That was the theme of our visit to the Wind Rivers this year, turning our planned 3-night backpacking trip into a short overnighter as we waited out the weather for much of the time. At least we had one nice sunset

We just got back from a few days in the Wind Rivers last night and now we are going back to the Mesa Theater this evening to see Otherwise before I go back to work on Monday and Diane starts a new semester at school.

This evening Diane and I are looking forward to seeing Pop Evil again at the Mesa Theater. They always put on a great show!

Well, tonight I am going to my first concert in over a year! The last show we went to was in March 2020, just before everything got shut down by COVID.

This is a recent shot from a visit to Cedar Breaks National Monument. The full trip report will be coming soon...

Here's a large boulder with some huge petroglyphs on it that we found this past week in Arizona.

This is a very cool pictograph we stumbled upon a couple of weeks ago in Canyonlands.

I spent a nice windy evening with the Devil's Thumb in the Adobe Badlands yesterday evening.

I've been wanting to hike the Ruple Point Trail in Dinosaur National Monument for years, but I've been waiting for an opportunity to catch a nice sunrise from the overlook. Well, that opportunity finally came through yesterday morning!

I've been trying to find these for a while now, and was finally successful this past weekend! >> The Faces of Canyonlands

This past weekend Diane and I went on our very first bikepacking trip. Stay tuned for that Trip Report to find out how it went for us!

Last night I posted my 20,000th photo on Flickr and here it is...

I just got back from a great weekend on the east side of the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park. I couldn't have asked for better weather in early February!

A few stats that Flickr sent over today that I thought were interesting.

I think this is probably going to be my very last post related to the year 2020. Here I'll share a few of my favorite rock art and ruins photos that I took throughout the year. You can check out my favorites from previous years here: [] [] [] []

To be honest, I really wasn't planning on making a favorite photos list for last year since I didn't feel very inspired for much of the year and didn't feel like I took many good images anyways. However, there were a few photos that I didn't want getting lost to

It's the last day of the year, so I think now is a good time to look back and choose my ten favorite trip reports from 2020. Obviously, 2020 was a much different year for everyone which changed some of my plans earlier in the year, but overall I still

This is the time of the year I usually make a post highlighting all of the amazing concerts we went to throughout the year, but this year is obviously going to be different since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all concerts for the rest of the year starting in mid-March.

I visited a lot of great and interesting arches and natural bridges this year. Some I had been to before, but a lot of them were new and pretty local to me. I thought it would be fun to share photos of some of my favorites! Perseverance Arch Will Minor

Since I am pretty sure that I'm now done camping for the rest of the year, I’ll go ahead and post up my total nights spent camping in 2020. While we had to cancel and change a number of our planned trips, especially in the spring, I am pretty happy

While 2020 didn't quite go as planned and I had a number of trips that were either cancelled or changed, especially in the spring, I still managed to get out quite a bit and spent 70 nights camping under the stars, which I am pretty happy about! Here are a

We had a pretty great weekend mountain biking the Intrepid Trails at Dead Horse Point State Park and spent Saturday night in this yurt within the park.

Update 12/4/2020: Since it doesn't look like there are any more album releases that I am interested in for the rest of the year, I'm pretty sure that this is going to be the final list of my favorite albums of 2020, so I've now bumped it back up to

It's been over 11 years since the last time I visited The Citadel on Cedar Mesa, and even though I had no desire to return again for myself, I did want Diane to see these ruins at least once. So we visited on the evening of Thanksgiving hoping that it

Just a little sunstar from a cold and windy hike through Upper Eardley Canyon in the San Rafael Swell yesterday.

Here's a photo of the United Nations Tablet taken just before sunset from the Canyonlands Overlook on Halloween.

For her birthday this year, Diane wanted to ride the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park.