On July 19th, I took a solo road trip down to the Canyonlands National Park “Island In The Sky” area as well as Arches National Park, both near Moab. The first day I drove up to the Island In The Sky area of Canyonlands National Park, passing Skywalk Arch on the way. Mostly I just took […]

Friday was the Fourth of July holiday which left me free for Saturday the fifth. To avoid the heat in southern Utah, David and I drove the Explorer east into the mountains. We drove through Heber City and on to Francis Utah. We stopped briefly to take pictures of a small class D natural arch on […]

I had been doing some “arch hunting” using Google Earth on my computer. There were some areas that I wanted to explore east of Goblin Valley State Park southwest of Green River Utah. Here there were some small canyons where I had found several natural arches years earlier and I had noticed some possible natural arch […]

This summer had been busy for me but I managed to get away after church on Sunday afternoon to drive the Mount Timpanogoes loop road with my brother David. (My wife had other plans.) After driving east up Provo Canyon and then north past the Sundance Ski Resort, the road climbs significantly into the aspen […]

 The last week of May, my son Cory and I, jumped in my Ford Explorer Wednesday after work and drove down to Kanab Utah. We then spent the next couple of days exploring the southern edge of Utah and enjoying some warm weather. The first stop on Thursday morning was the toadstool rock formations east of Kanab […]

Spring has finally arrived in Utah so David and I drive down to the area south of Green River Utah for a day of exploring. My 23 year old daughter Shantisha wanted to go along so we made room in the back seat for her. (My children and/or wife usually want to go out with […]

Friday evening after work, David and I drove down to Panquitch Utah and spent the night at a funky little motel where we almost froze to death overnight. We decided that the next time we were going to verify that the heater worked before taking a room. The next day, we drove south to Kanab […]

On March 22nd, David and I left on a day trip to explore an area we hadn’t seen much yet. From Google Earth, it looked like there was a good deal of strata that could include natural arches so we needed to see it much closer.   From Green River Utah, we drove under the […]

Still waiting for signs of Spring, David and I drive down to Capital Reef National Park. Though there was still quite a bit of snow in the shadows, it was mostly dry. We could almost trick ourselves into thinking the Winter was over. We spent most of our short daylight hours just taking pictures near […]

On Saturday, February 18, I drove the Explorer down to Arches National Park near Moab to see if I could get out of the snow. There was some snow in the Moab area but not as much as in Utah Valley. Here it was sunny and I felt like I was recharging my mental/spiritual/emotional batteries. […]