On almost the last day of the year, I found myself with a whole day to myself. The Christmas bustle was over and the New Year had not yet detonated. Needing some time for myself, I jumped in my Explorer and headed south. Somehow I ended up in Arches National Park near Moab. One thing […]
The Fall Clouds Before the Winter Storm
Friday was Veteran’s Day and was forecast to be the last nice Fall season day before a Winter storm moves in to ruin Saturday. I took the day off so that David and I could squeeze in one more Arch Hunting trip to southern Utah before Winter (and my Winter depression) set in. However, Friday […]
Highway 40 Arch
I took Thursday off from work so that David and I could take a quick trip to the family cabin north of Vernal, Utah so we could pick up an old Franklin pot-belly stove that was being replaced by a high efficiency wood stove. On the way out of Vernal, we stopped briefly along the […]
Days of Sadness
Arches National Park Homecoming
Every now and then, we just need to return to Arches National Park, as kind of a “reunion” with the center of Arch Hunting. After a long hard week at work, I just wanted a pleasant day in the sun surrounded by red cliffs. David and I drove down to Arches National Park on Saturday […]
Scouting Fuller Bottoms
Saturday morning, September 3rd, found David and I dragging the ATV trailer into the west side of the San Rafael Swell from the Castle Dale area. We were heading to Fuller Bottoms from the north road but found the road greatly impacted by recent monsoon rains. We rode the ATVs in to Fuller Bottoms after […]
Brush Creek and Grizzly Ridge
It is hot in the Utah Valleys so a trip to the mountains sounded like a good idea. Thursday my family and I loaded up the Explorer (along with my brother, David) and headed for the family cabin north of Vernal, near Grizzly Ridge. My son and his wife followed later and brought my ATVs […]
Turtle Canyon
While waiting for Fall temperatures to cool off southern Utah so we could do some hiking without melting away, David and I decided to spend Saturday on ATVs exploring the Book Cliff area south and east of Sunnyside Utah. After unloading the ATVs in Horse Canyon, a short distance southeast of Columbia Utah, we took […]
Second Try for the Utah – Idaho – Nevada
The mountains of northern Utah/southern Idaho were finally dry enough for us to try for the Utah – Idaho – Nevada corner again so I took Friday off from work so we could get an early start. Friday morning we noticed our dishwasher was leaking water so I spent most of Friday removing the dishwasher, […]
The Mud of Salt Wash & Last Chance Wash
Another Saturday finally rolled around with the opportunity to explore another small corner of Utah. My younger brother David and I found ourselves parking my Ford Explorer Sport and the ATV trailer a short distance northwest of Caineville Utah on the Middle Desert road. Here we unloaded the ATVs and headed towards the Middle Desert […]