On the 22nd of November 2008, David and I was able to sneak in one more Saturday day trip to southern Utah before winter set in. We wanted to explore the area south of the I-70 Interstate Freeway and west of Red Canyon. We drove east down Willow Springs Wash, past Deadman Peak and east […]

On Friday November 7th, David and I drove south after the work day was over and got as far as Panguitch where we spent the night. Our room at the older motel didn’t have a good working heater so we froze most of the night. The next morning we drove east to Escalante Utah and […]

On Saturday October 7th, David and I drove down to Moab to hike the short trail from the Colorado River to Corona Arch and Bowtie Arch. Anyway that is the direction we started off on. The trail climbs from the “Potash Road” parking lot up a slope, across the Potash train track and then east […]

On Saturday September 6th, I drove my son’s Jeep Cherokee down to The Poison Strip area (just north of Arches National Park near Moab Utah) along with my son Cory and my brother David. It was still summer and hot but sometimes you just need to get out anyway. After taking a few pictures around […]

On Friday, August 29th, for the Labor Day weekend, I loaded my family into our van and headed for the family cabin located between Vernal Utah and Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area in northeast Utah. Saturday we drove over to the Ute Mountain lookout tower on the mountain south of Manila Utah. This is one […]

On the afternoon of August 24th, I decided to take the short hike from Aspen Grove to Stewart’s Cascade, on the east slope of Mount Timpanogoes, not far from where I live in Utah Valley. The 2 mile trail from Aspen Grove does climb a bit but for the most part, it traverses the mountain […]

Saturday, my son Cory and I decided to take a drive north to Antelope Island State Park. Antelope Island is an island in the Great Salt Lake and requires entry through Syracuse Utah and along a seven mile road built on a causeway across the shallow lake. Before visiting the park, we had to bounce […]

The Book Cliffs is an area in eastern Utah, south of Roosevelt Utah and north of Green River Utah, that we have been meaning to explore for quite some time. Unfortunately, it is an area that is difficult to access. After work onFriday, August 15th, David and I drove out to Vernal Utah and stayed […]

Friday afternoon after work, I loaded up the Explorer with my wife & oldest daughter, and headed east to Vernal, Utah. We stayed the night at my parents place which is also my childhood home. The extended family was assembling at my parents place to help install a sprinkler system, something that had been needed […]

It was summer and hot but David and I still wanted to get out for at least the day. Saturday morning, we headed for Moab Utah. Instead of heading into Moab itself, we turned off the Canyonlands National Park “Island-in-the-Sky” road heading west and then south to the top of the mesa. We then took […]