Along Utah’s historic highway 12 HC travels, white knuckling the drive over the more terrifying bits. All worth it though as he finds remote scenic vistas covered in snow. A welcome sight for a desert rat. He comes to the tiny town of Boulder, with no locals to be found. Perhaps it was a Sunday…
Tag: Southern Utah
The Goblin’s Lair
A misty morning find’s HC contemplating today’s adventure. As the clouds swirl around the red rock mountain tops, he first attempts to drive down the muddy dirt road to find the Temple of the Sun and Moon. He soon realizes that he if keeps going, his car will most likely become stuck, leading to him…
Bryce Canyon hiking after a winter snow storm (part 1)
Most of my life thus far has been all about luck. Something that initially seemed to ruin a plan or situation turns out to have been just what needed to happen for something truly amazing to follow suit. That is probably the best way to explain it. Take how a rain storm that last all…
The Mirror Overlook
A few years ago I first passed the East Zion Resort and thought it would be a fun place to have a base camp while exploring new areas of Southern Utah. The small town of Orderville really has nothing else. Last year on my trek to see family for Thanksgiving, I booked a tiny mirror…
Toadstools
Over the course of my lifetime I’ve probably driven past this lone sign at least twenty times, if not fifty. The sparse landscape between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona can lead one to many different types of outdoor adventures, many of which I have been fortunate enough to see and do. One that I had…
Red Cliffs Lodge
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…
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 East Rim trail
It’s not quite 7 a.m. on this cold November day. The trailhead parking lot only has a park ranger vehicle with a gent smoking a cigarette inside the cab. I politely ask him if this is the start of the East Rim trail. He smiles and points to a marker a few feet away and…
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…