Winter still had not found Utah so there was only one thing to do. Go arch hunting yet one more time this year. David and I headed back to Arches National Park to visit the natural arches around the park’s only campground. Tapestry Arch is easily found a short distance to the northeast of the […]
Yet more Arches Arches
Winter had not yet found Utah so David and I decided to take advantage of the fairly nice weather to attempt yet another trip to Arches National Park near Moab. We wanted to visit some of the arches outlying the Devil’s Garden area in north Arches National Park. We were pleased to find only a […]
Our own Private Arch
In spite of years of documenting all of the natural arches and bridges in Arches National Park (over 2000 of them), the park recently announced that they had overlooked one. A visitor to the park explained that they regularly visited a natural arch that they had never seen documented. The park personnel soon verified that […]
Arches – Almost like going home again
Saturday and time for a drive to the Moab Utah area. David and I spent the day bumping around Arches National Park with a late afternoon hike up to Delicate Arch timed so that we would enjoy a lunar eclipse just after sunset. The weather was perfect and the sky was clear. Too bad my pictures really […]
How to hide an arch
Another Saturday and we are back in the hills west of Parowan Utah looking for Mitchell Arch again. David and I separated on our hike back to the vehicle so we can cover more country. As I top a hill I see the little arch we had found on our previous arch hunt. And thirty feet […]
Storm Window Arch
Even though David and I had been natural arch hunting in the San Rafael Swell just a couple of days ago, somehow we decided that we could squeeze in another hunt after work. We had heard about a natural arch located above Alpine Utah and we decided that we had better take a look. From […]
Is it Swasey or is it Slipper?
It was Saturday and after a long work week, it was time to get out of town… again. This week, David and I headed for the San Rafael Swell coming in from the west through Ferron Utah, down the dirt/gravel Dutch Flat Road to Coal Wash. We then drove south until we could turn left […]
The Secrets of Secret Mesa
Saturday found David and I headed for the middle of the San Rafael Swell via the Moore Utah cutoff, I-70 and then down a jeep trail into the north end of Eagle Canyon. On the way, we did stop at the base of the Molan Reef to take a few pictures of petroglyphs located near […]
You’re fired!
This is not a Utah hiking report but… I was on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia when I got a cell phone call letting me know that I had been laid off from my network engineer job of eleven years at Novell Inc. The layoff was company wide but that didn’t help the feeling of […]
Donut Falls Bridge
Saturday we opted for a closer trip rather than driving to southern Utah to look for natural arches. David and I drove north to the Salt Lake Valley and then east up Little Cottonwood Canyon. We only went as far as Alta, just to see what it looked like now. We then drove back down […]