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Poking Around the Pockets of Horse Canyon

Canyonlands National Park | Saturday & Sunday, February 1-2, 2025

With warmer than seasonal temperatures and overall nice weather expected across the Colorado Plateau this weekend, I thought this would be a great time to get back into the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park for the first time this year. Since we’ve had a pretty dry winter so far this season and the road into Horse Canyon was actually open, I also thought this would be a great opportunity to get back into that elusive canyon. I met up with a friend on Saturday morning and we spent the entire weekend poking around the pockets of Horse Canyon to see what we would find along the way…

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Stories on Stone: Rock Art from the Pahranagat Trail II

Stories on Stone: Rock Art from the Pahranagat Trail II

In Search of the Pahranagat Man | Wednesday – Sunday, January 15-19, 2025

This week I took Thursday and Friday off from work so I could spend another extended weekend searching for petroglyphs with Jared around the Pahranagat Valley, which is sandwiched between the fringes of the Mojave Desert and Great Basin Desert in southern Nevada. It’s been a bit cold in the Grand Valley lately and I was looking forward to escaping into the the milder temperatures found at this edge of the Mojave Desert for a few days. I left from work on Wednesday afternoon, drove across Utah to St. George, and grabbed a late dinner in town before crossing over the state line into Arizona to find a place to spend the night where Jared could meet up with me later. Jared arrived sometime shortly after midnight but I was sound asleep and wouldn’t catch up with him until the morning. We both got up early on Thursday to finish the drive into Nevada in the dark and then watched the sun come up as we followed the Muddy River through the Moapa Valley.

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Canyons of the San Rafael Reef II

Rock Art of the San Rafael Swell XX | Saturday & Sunday, January 11-12, 2025

It’s been a few years since I spent any time exploring the canyons of the San Rafael Reef and I’ve been feeling the need to get back this winter, so I left home early on Saturday morning, drove west into Utah, and then spent the entire weekend on the Reef. Not only did I hike and explore a few unnamed canyons that have carved their way into the Reef within the San Rafael Reef Wilderness which were completely new to me, but I also revisited a few places that I hadn’t been back to in almost fifteen years, so it was nice mix of old and new. Of course, I also saw plenty of rock art throughout the weekend, too. These are some photos from my weekend on the San Rafael Reef.

Rock Art of the Book Cliffs X

Saturday & Sunday, January 4-5, 2025

I wanted to start the year off right on the first weekend of 2025, so I met up with a friend on Saturday morning and we spent the rest of the weekend together hiking in canyons that carved through the Book Cliffs in search of petroglyphs and pictographs. We found a lot of new rock art along the way and even stopped to revisit a couple sites that I hadn’t been back to in almost fifteen years which were nice to see again. While Saturday was mostly overcast all day with a couple of short-lived snow showers in the late morning and Sunday was completely clear and sunny, the cool temperatures throughout the weekend were great for hiking in. Here are some photos of the rock art we saw this weekend.

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Moab Meanderings: Moab Area Rock Art XLVII

Saturday – Sunday, December 28-29, 2024

For the final weekend of 2024 I returned to the sandstone landscape surrounding Moab and met up with a friend so we could spend another weekend exploring, hiking, camping and searching for some petroglyphs that I have been trying to find for a while, and we ended up having a lot of luck this time! We were also treated to the sight of fog filling up some of the valleys on both mornings which made for some photogenic conditions, even if it did slow down my drive to Moab quite significantly on Saturday morning. I’ll start off this Trip Report with a few photos from the sunrise I watched at Arches National Park on Sunday morning since it was a great way to close out the year. I hope you all have a great 2025!

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Poking Around the Pockets of Horse Canyon

Stories on Stone: Rock Art from the Pahranagat Trail II

Canyons of the San Rafael Reef II

Rock Art of the Book Cliffs X

Moab Meanderings: Moab Area Rock Art XLVII