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The Enepitsi Trail in Santa Clara Canyon

Thursday, April 30, 2026

I’m going to be spending all of next week in Kanab at a conference for work, so late last week I made kind of a last-minute decision to drive down to Las Vegas a few days before so I could see Architects in concert at the House of Blues on Thursday evening. Then I would be able to spend Friday and the rest of the weekend along the Arizona Strip before driving into Kanab late on Sunday afternoon. Surprisingly, this would be the very first concert in 2026 that I would be attending, although I did have tickets to a local show in February that was cancelled. I left home bright and early on Thursday morning and made my way Southwest across Utah and the Colorado Plateau before dropping down into the Mojave Desert. After grabbing an early lunch in St. George I had some extra time and thought it would be nice to stretch my legs and go for a short hike on the Enepitsi Trail (Ghost Trail) along the Santa Clara River. I’ve already hiked to the nice petroglyphs above on Anasazi Ridge before and was interested in seeing what could be found down below in the Santa Clara Canyon.

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Warming Up in The Mojave

From the Muddy Mountains to the Red Mountains
Friday – Monday, January 17-20, 2020

Back a few months ago when I started thinking about where I wanted to go during this extended weekend, I figured I would probably head over to The Needles or Cedar Mesa, like I usually do. However, as the holiday weekend got closer I realized there was probably going to be too much snow on the ground for any hiking I would like to do there, plus we had been stuck under an inversion in Grand Junction with cold temperatures and gray skies for a while, so I thought it would be nice to head down to the Mojave Desert between St. George and Las Vegas so I could warm up and get my annual Mojave fix instead. Late last year I had invited my friend Jerry to join me this weekend and when I informed him about the last minute change of plans it seemed that he was looking forward to getting into some warmer weather for a few days, too.

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Bring Me The Mojave

President’s Day Weekend | Friday – Monday, February 15-18, 2019

The plans for this extended weekend trip began way back in August of last year when I purchased tickets to see Bring Me The Horizon at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Bring Me The Horizon is one of our favorite bands and we were looking forward to seeing them again since the last time we saw them was in 2017, also in Las Vegas. The concert was on Saturday evening and Monday was President’s Day, so we took Friday off from work to have a four-day weekend that we could spend exploring new parts of the Mojave Desert between St. George and Las Vegas. The plan was to spend some time around southwestern Utah and Gold Butte National Monument on our way to Las Vegas and then spend the day after the concert hiking in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.

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