I chose to have the Red Cliffs Lodge as my base camp while exploring Canyonlands National Park. The lodge is about 15 miles from Moab up the colorado river. Quiet and secluded, especially with the pandemic still hanging around. Near empty, it allowed me to set up time lapse cameras all over the place, capturing…
Tag: road trip
Chesler Park
It was still fairly early as I leave the Slickrock trail and head for the trailhead to Chesler Park, the hike I came all this way out here for. Bouncing slowly along the dirt road for a spell, I finally find the start of the trail. The silence out here is certainly foreboding. I make…
Mesa Arch
There was only one trailhead parking lot area that had an abundance of cars (relatively speaking) in the Island in the Sky district. The trail leading one to Mesa Arch. I bundle up and head on out to see why…. The hike was short, not even 1/4 mile long, so soon I was at the…
Island in the Sky District
Day two in Canyonlands, and this time I make it further than beyond the National Park entrance. Today I explore the vast reaches of the Island in the Sky District. I have no planned itinerary, but instead use luck and intuition as I go. The morning sun has just broke free of the clouds as…
into Canyonlands…finally.
It was hard to believe that I had never been here before, with the many times I had been to Dead Horse Point. Such is the way life goes though, if you go just behind your normal routine, one may discover a side of yourself that was previously unknown. I’d just left the family after…
The Windows at Arches
Christmas has come and gone. The obligatory family time has been met and now I find myself entering Arches National Park. The front gate warns that only four wheel drive vehicles are allowed a few miles further in… I lock in my wheels and head in. Light snow starts to fall. I’m heading out to…
The Tucson Barn
The barn was located inside a walled property, reminding me of a set up that people living in isolation would use. Anti-government folk and religious zealots, you know the type of people I am referring to. I enter the quiet community and find my barn accomodations quite comfortable, very Southwestern. Books on Native American history…
Hidden Valley
“I plan to finally go check out the Hidden Valley area.” “One of my favorite places in the park my friend.” It seems that only strangers call me “my friend” ironically. Out here in the high desert of Joshua Tree, I find that most people are solitary and isolated….all strangers yet everyone is friendly, just…
ZMR
Driving through Zion National Park for the final time last year, exiting out through the East Entrance to the Park. Easily the least common way to get to the heart of Zion. Just after you pass the gates, a cluster of cabins sit perched on the edge of a hill overlooking a greenish pasture full…
Fairyland Loop
Time is one fast moving entity. Eleven years ago it was when I last set foot into Bryce Canyon. A new decade finds me back at the entrance to the National Park, and on not more than a whim and my National Parks Pass do I decide to turn up the road to find a…
Spooky Gulch
It has been almost one year to the day since I last set foot out here. I’m not quite sure though if that feels like a long time ago or just the other day. Peekaboo was the slot canyon I did back then, but the snow on the ground prevented me from finding the other…
Time with quails & coyotes in Joshua Tree
As 2021 comes closer to its inevitable end, I find myself back in Joshua Tree. Halloween weekend it is as I rumble up to the door of the homestead I’ll be staying in over the next couple of days. A wave of calm rushes over me. No set schedule out here. I wander into the…