Search results for query: *

Good enough. In general, we came in from the west, northwest. West of the town of Escalante. Most of the back roads run off to the south, southeast into the back country. We camped at Kodachrome Basin State Park. If you have specific questions once you get to the planning stages, give a holler.

Let me take a look at our maps and M's journal, Jerry. I'll get back to you.

Here is my last batch. From Kodachrome Basin, a UT state park mostly inside the GSENM. And a few from the surrounding countryside.

Dumb logger...:lol:. As if anyone would ever buy that piece of fantasy, my good friend :). You or I, or many of our fellow 'Housers present and past, could have ruled the world, if we'd wished. It takes brains, brawn, drive, imagination, and something else not easily defined, to succeed in...

Here's another GSE location that we really enjoyed. Willis Creek. Even had live water flowing, which adds something.

Actually Stig, it was built by the Union Pacific railroad Company, along with lodges at Zion and Grand Canyon, to encourage tourism (and the buying of rail tickets :)). About 1925, I think. Before the Great Depression. The UP and the Park Service actually collaborated on the lodges and parks...

Grand Staircase-Escalate NM. Coyote and Spooky Canyons. These places are kinda off the beaten path, not the best of roads to get to the trailheads. Not many other visitors, which was a huge relief after Zion and Bryce. Perfect for us.

Made smaller, as I understand it.

Thanks, Jerry. Next up will be Grand Staircase-Escalate. Fine slot canyons.

My laptop never has. It seems the orientation issues are with posting from smartphones, are they not?

M and I did a good long dayhike down into the canyon from the rim, a bit short of 8 miles. It might be even more incredible from below, getting up close to all that structure. Try these...

The fellow that Bryce is named after, Ebenezer Bryce, was a rancher from way back. I love the quote attributed to him, describing Bryce Canyon..."It's a hell of a place to lose a cow." He is most assuredly right in that. :D These are pics from the rim.

Bryce Canyon...on many folks bucket list and with good reason. Bizarre and beautiful by turns. Here's some of the old lodge where we spent a pleasant snowy day indoors. They serve a fine lunch buffet, and pour an even better coffee nudge :). And a couple of the same age cabins that are...

Can do, buckaroo ;). Unless Butch tells me I'm gonna break the interwebs...:D

Thanks, all. This is Red Canyon, a US Forest Service site on the Dixie NF. Great campground well under an hour from Bryce NP, which has uninspiring campgrounds, imo. We got snow overnight, 6 inches and 20 degrees. Good outdoor gear rules :D. We drove up to Bryce, less snow up there for...

Last ones from Zion...these are along the Zion-Mt Carmel highway, leaving the park headed east.

Back in the main canyon, this is a hike up Hidden Valley. Almost 2000' of elevation gain, iirc. One segment of bench trail offers handhold by way of chain bolted into the cliff edge. The exposure was pretty extreme :).

This set is from the Kolob Canyon section of the park, off to the north of the Virgin. We thought this was stunning scenery...if there were no Zion NP, there should be a Kolob Canyon NP :). Mix of snow, rain, and sun this day...the light was always changing and the pictures reflect that.

I am inspired by Jerry B's fine thread sharing his Mendocino Coast pictures with us, to do something that's been at the back of my mind for a bit. A couple of years ago M and I spent a month in SW Utah, camping and hiking. Most of you will recall that trip, as well as others to Utah and other...