The weather was nice enough to warrant a day trip to the southwest end of the San Rafael Swell where I wanted to fly my DJI Mavic Pro drone over some canyons that drained south and then east into Salt Wash and then the Muddy River. This is an area southwest of Hidden Splendor with […]
Lost Creek near Salina
My wife and I like to go RV camping several times a year to the Maple Grove campground located between Scipio and Salina Utah. It is an easy to drive to location with mature shade trees and a year-round stream running through the campground. The grand kids love it! While staying there in August, I […]
Hiking Through Wildflowers to Rip Canyon
On Monday, May 13th I decided that I had had enough of the continual rain in northern Utah. I had been watching the storms mostly miss central Utah so I guessed that the back country wouldn’t be too muddy. I drove south to the east side of the San Rafael Swell and pulled off the […]
Magic Theater Arch
I was visiting my brother David in Vernal so we decided to spend the day by driving to Moab and do a little Arch Hunting. We decided to finally locate Magic Theater Arch in Kane Springs Canyon, just outside of west Moab, on the south side of the Colorado River. It had been a long […]
Above Black Dragon Canyon
It was April and it still felt like Winter in Utah Valley where I live. In desperation, I jumped in my truck and drove down to the San Rafael Swell west of Green River Utah in hopes of finding Spring. I didn’t find it. I parked my truck on the east end of Black Dragon […]
Spring Canyon Point
I wanted to fly my DJI Mavic Pro drone over the canyons northeast of Moab Utah so I drove down for the day and found the weather agreeable. I drove out to Spring Canyon Point overlooking the Green River and began my flights. And no visit to this area is complete without a visit to […]
Butler Wash
We wanted to explore the canyons near Hanksville further so David and I managed to squeeze out one more day trip to visit Butler Wash, southeast of Hanksville. The day was nice enough for hiking but too windy for me to fly my drone. That was too bad because we were positioned well to have […]
Flying Straight in the San Rafael Swell
October 24th found me heading for the east side of the San Rafael Swell. It was fall and finally cooling off enough to make hiking possible again in the Utah desert. Traveling south towards Hanksville, I exited the highway where it crosses Iron Wash and parked my truck. I then headed westward up the wash […]
Hidden Splendor
It was too hot in most of central and southern Utah for hiking but I needed to do something. I checked my list of places I wanted to visit again and choose the Hidden Splendor area of the San Rafael Swell. I was hoping that it would not be windy so I could fly my […]
The Hidden Park
Capital Reef National Park is an interesting park. If you are playing the tourist and your wheels never leave paved roads, you will drive into the park on Utah state road 24, visit Fruita and the area around the visitor center. You may even stop to hike a few of the established trails. It is […]