Wildhorse Canyon

The weekend of 15 Jan 10, Tracy and I did an 8 mile loop in Wildhorse Canyon.  This was a nice, relaxing hike.  We hiked to the end of the canyon then hiked across the slickrock back towards the road and then finished the loop via the…

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Various Utah Pictures – 2010

These are various pictures from Utah trips in 2010 that I didn’t think warranted a complete trip report. Moab Rim, UT – November 12, 2010   Dry Fork, UT – September 19, 2010   Meteor Shower – August 13, 2010   Yellowstone Creek, UT – July 31,…

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Robber’s Roost Canyon

The weekend of 23 Oct 09, Tracy and I headed to the Angel Cove Trail in Robber’s Roost in southern Utah. We had hiked here before, but this time we wanted to actually make it into Robber’s Roost Canyon. We spent Friday night in Green River (as…

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Harris Wash

The weekend of May 8, 2009, we headed to Escalante. I had been out of town for most of the winter, and I really wanted to get into a canyon. Well, I planned to hike Hurricane Wash down into Coyote Gulch. We had done this hike a…

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Various Utah Pictures – 2009

These are pictures from around Utah in 2009 that didn’t warrant a full trip report. Snowbasin, UT – November 14, 2009   Great Salt Lake, UT – November 7, 2009   Snowbasin, UT – October 31, 2009   Deep Creek Mountain, UT – October 10, 2009  …

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Moab

The weekend of 12 Dec 08, Tracy and I headed down to southern Utah. I planned to check out a few roads in the area. We found some really nice stuff outside of Moab and Green River, and we spent the entire weekend in the same general…

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Lake Powell

Over the long Thanksgiving weekend of 26 Nov 08, Tracy and I headed out for another long weekend kayaking on Lake Powell. We rented kayaks from REI and then headed to Bullfrog on the north end of the lake. We had tried to kayak here earlier in…

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Buckskin Gulch

The weekend of 31 Oct 08 Tracy and I took a great trip to Paria Canyon and Buckskin Gulch. Buckskin is supposed to be one of the longest slot canyons in the world: a solid 15 miles of high-walled, narrow canyon. We had a permit for two…

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Exploring South-eastern Utah

Somehow I actually managed to convince my aerophobic dad to get on a plane and make his first trip to the Rocky Mountains. Actually, I bribed him: I bought him a plane ticket and told him it was his chance to show me how good he was…

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Trail and Leprechaun Canyons

The weekend of 28 Mar 08, Tracy and I headed down to Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell to do some kayaking.  Now, we could have rented two sea kayaks at REI in Salt Lake, but I figured it would be easier to rent them at the marina…

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