Saturday, I headed to southern Utah on my own to do a solo hike from the rebuilt Paria movie set to Starlight Arch, east of Kanab Utah. I parked a distance northwest of the movie set and climbed up the east end of Calico Peak and return off the south side after visiting the arch. […]
Hepworth Wash Strike Two
David and I drove down to Zion National Park again to try the Hepworth Wash hike and climb. When we finally climbed to the top of Gifford Canyon overlooking Hepworth Wash, we choose to descend one of several drainages, hoping that this one will allow us access into the wash. Our choice turns out to […]
Heaven in Utah
David and I drove down to St. George Utah so we could visit Eye of Heaven Arch to the southeast. On our way to Eye of Heaven Arch, we drove through Hilsdale Utah, a funky little town situated on the Utah and Arizona border. This is polygamy country. The houses are big and could easily […]
A Birthday Arch
October 20th is my birthday and that is good enough of a reason to go natural arch hunting. David and I loaded up my Explorer and headed south into the San Rafael Swell area of central Utah. From Moore Utah we drove south until we crossed the I-70 Interstate. We continued south on the dirt […]
Escalante Arch Hunting
The weekend of August 18th found David and me back in my Ford Explorer and heading for Escalante Utah where we got a motel room for the night. We then headed to nearby Boulder Utah. From Boulder, we headed east on the Burr Trail dirt road until we could drive up Long Canyon and then […]
Exploring South Canyonlands
On Wednesday, August 8th, David and I headed south after our workday ended. We took my tent trailer and managed to pull into the Devil’s Canyon Campground (between Monticello and Blanding Utah about midnight. By about 1:30 AM, we were set up and in bed. The next morning after breakfast, we were off to Canyonlands […]
A Grand Hike
Friday, my brother David and my son Cory (and myself) all loaded up my Ford Explorer and headed south. We stayed overnight in Moab Utah before heading south the next morning to Blanding Utah. We then continued south and then west to Grand Gulch. It took us a while to find the right dirt road […]
Arch Hunting Posts
On Saturday, the 16th of June, David and I drove down to the south end of Capital Reef National Park for a day of arch hunting. This time we took the Notom road which is just east of the park. We headed south on the Bullfrog Road until we had passed the Notom community. There […]
Flatened Alcove Buddy
Saturday found David and I hiking in the southwest end of Capitol Reef National Park, and just outside of the park boundary. We were hiking into Laurel and Hardy Arches above Maverick Draw, when it began to rain. David and I took temporary shelter in a low alcove just large enough to sit upright in. […]
Trip To Brazil !!
This is a non-Utah trip comment: During the last week of May and first week of June 2001, my wife and I took a trip to Brazil to pick up our son who had served a two year L.D.S. church mission there. First Stop, the City of Salvador! Located on the east coast of Brazil, […]