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This evening Diane and I are back in Salt Lake City for the second time this month and are going to be attending our first concert at The Depot. We will be seeing Nothing More for the ninth time, which happens to be one of our favorite bands! We will

Watching the last light of the day disappear at the Candy Cliffs (Yant Flat).

This past weekend while we were out exploring parts of the Mojave Desert during a quick visit to Las Vegas, we visited this very cool pictograph panel in the La Madre Mountain Wilderness.

A large boulder covered with petroglyphs that we visited on our way to Las Vegas on Friday.

Update: Unfortunately, the lead singer of Bring Me The Horizon injured his vocal cord and had to cancel this show, so we ended up not going. It gave us more time to hike instead, so stay tuned for that trip report! This weekend Diane and I are leaving a day

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Since today is my birthday and there's a good show at the Mesa Theater this evening, that's where we will be! We are looking forward to seeing Miss May I again since we enjoyed their show back in 2017, plus I liked a lot of Fit For A King's new

Even though I've taken a few photos of The Control Tower (Dali Rock) in Coyote Buttes South before, the light and clouds were looking pretty nice as I hiked by it last weekend so I had to stop for a quick photo!

February is going to be a pretty big month of concerts for us! We are going to be seeing three of our favorite bands this month and travelling to Salt Lake City twice and Las Vegas once. We are starting this month of music off tonight by seeing The Amity

I've decided that 2019 is the year that I am going to deal with the crowds and finally visit Havasupai in Arizona. It was a pain in the ass to get a reservation in this morning, but it looks like Diane and I will be visiting Havasupai in October! We

Here's a smaller version of the popular Wave that I came across while exploring an unnamed drainage on the Paria Plateau. No permit required for this one!

You know it's going to be a good day when you setup your camera and this is the first shot you take!

While searching for rock art in a small side canyon in the canyonlands region I came across this ice in the wash and the lines drew me in, so I had to take a photo.

Yesterday I spent the day exploring part of the San Rafael Reef north of I-70 and made sure to find Ednah Natural Bridge while I was there. It was a very cool natural bridge! Here are a couple photos of it.

Just one more photo of Delicate Arch from New Year's Day, this time with a little sunstar.

Thanks to the government shutdown and a snowstorm that closed the road into Arches National Park, we got to watch the first sunset of 2019 at Delicate Arch all alone! It was amazing!

There is less than a week until the end of the year, so I think now is a good time to look back and choose my ten favorite trip reports from 2018. As usual, we went on a lot of great trips this year so it was difficult to choose

Diane and I kept up our annual tradition of visiting Landscape Arch in Arches National Park on Christmas morning. It's still standing after another year and there were even some nice clouds this time!

A nice view of Mount Tukuhnikivatz from Behind The Rocks on Saturday evening as we were driving back to Moab before sunset.

Lone Butte // Behind The Rocks

The end of 2018 is almost here, and that means it's time for me to look back at all the photos I took throughout the year so I can pick out just a few of my very favorites. I had a rocky relationship with photography this year and mainly focused

Since I am pretty sure that I am now done camping for the remainder of the year after spending this past weekend near Moab, I’ll go ahead and post up my total nights spent camping under the stars in 2018. I had originally set a goal for myself of trying

2018 has been the greatest year for camping and getting outside in my entire life by a long shot! I spent 80 nights camping underneath the stars this year and also camped more than one night during each month. Here are a few photos of of our campsites from throughout

If you've been following along to this website for any amount of time, you probably already know that I enjoy spending my free time searching for ancient ruins and rock art hidden throughout the Colorado Plateau and beyond. This year I've decided to create a separate post that highlights my

Since I'm pretty sure Diane and I went to our last concert of the year last night, I guess now is a good time to share my annual year in concerts post that highlights all the shows we went to throughout the year! While we didn't go to as many

Diane and I are headed back to the Mesa Theater for the second time in a week to see Devour The Day this evening. The last time we saw them was in New Mexico on our honeymoon!

I didn't plan this out at the beginning of the year, but looking back I noticed that I have spent a lot of time in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in 2018, so I'm calling this the Year of the Needles! Besides finishing hiking all of the official

Since the wheel studs on the back passenger side of my 2016 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon have sheared off twice in the last year and I was definitely careful about properly torqueing the lug nuts after the first time (see the end of this trip report), I have a feeling

It feels like it's been forever since I've been to a show at the Mesa Theater, but we are excited to be seeing Thousand Below again tonight here in Grand Junction! At least we don't have to drive to Salt Lake City this time! We'll also be checking out Capsize

Update 12/4/2018: Since it doesn't look like there are any more album releases in the next couple of weeks that have the possibility of making my favorites list (at least for this year, since I need time to listen to them), I think this is going to be the final

Below is a short quote from an article written by my friend Clyde Denis and published in Canyon Legacy back in 2010 about the likely origin of the name Chesler Park and Chesler Canyon in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. The identification of an inscription near Chesler Park,

Here's a few photos from this morning to give you an idea about how it went for us. I'll tell the whole story when I finish the full Trip Report. Hopefully it will be up in a few days! See the full Trip Report here: End of Trails in The

A beautiful evening view over the Valley of the Gods from the edge of Cedar Mesa. See the full Trip Report here: Thanksgiving Under the Bears Ears

I just received a copy of the 2019 Exploring Colorado Calendar which features my photo from the Colorado National Monument for the month of April. This calendar is put out each year by Colorado Life Magazine and can be purchased here. Here's a quick iPhone photo of the April page

A very cool pictograph panel we visited this weekend that was much larger than I anticipated! See the full Trip Report here: Thanksgiving Under the Bears Ears

Over eight years ago I tried to hike to the Lewis Lodge Ruins on Cedar Mesa but was turned around by a narrow ledge that I couldn't climb down. Well, I decided to try again this weekend and had absolutely no problems getting down to the ruins this time! These

A nice grouping of designed handprints on the ceiling of a large cave in The Needles. See the full Trip Report here: Horsin’ Around: The Return to Horse Canyon

Here's a photo from a very beautiful little side-canyon of Horse Canyon that we hiked through on the way to an arch this weekend. The light in here was amazing! See the full Trip Report here: Horsin’ Around: The Return to Horse Canyon

Way back in the year 2012 I licensed three of my rock art photos to a TV show on H2 (History 2 Channel) called The Universe: When Space Changed History. I made a post about it at the time which can be found here. I just found the episode online

Ever since I bought my first Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Unlimited JK almost nine years ago, I've occasionally used a Thule Spare Me 2 bike rack to carry my mountain bike on the spare tire when I needed it. This system worked well for me since I didn't ride my bike