Stuff That’s Really Far Away In Canyonlands
Here’s a picture of Brent along the White Rim Trail. Can you see him?
That black dot on the road is a Jeep.
The white streak in the river is a tour boat.
That Would Be Capitol
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Category: Travel
June 30, 2012
June 27, 2012
Monument Valley And Valley Of The Gods
Monument Valley is a famous collection of buttes near the Utah-Arizona border and the first place we visited on our trip since we came to Arizona via Albuquerque, NM. Just down the road from Monument Valley is the Valley Of The Gods. This is a collection of images from both places. The tiny dots on the road in the picture above are cars traveling around the valley. It was along this road that most of these pictures were taken.
Our cast of misfits on this outing includes this Jeep and Tiny Brent who stands no more than 4ft tall.
I was really into desert trees this trip because each one is unique.
Of course most of the place looks like Mars.
Tiny Brent moves a pebble that fell out of place.
This looks like a former butte that has collapsed. You can see all around there is absolutely nothing which is exactly why southern Utah is worth visiting.
A path to nowhere in particular.
A view over Valley Of The Gods… brought to you by Chrysler Corporation.
June 27, 2012
Driving Around Canyonlands National Park
If you have 12 minutes of your life you don’t need back you can listen to our mundane banter and 80′s music as we drive the Jeep down the Shaffer Pass, around the White Rim Road, and down Potash Road. This is a compilation of several videos we made on the iPhone as we drove around so the quality isn’t great.
June 24, 2012
Rocky Mountain National Park
Today we drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park and saw a bunch of cool stuff.
One of the highlights was Bear Lake though we also went up above 10,000 ft to see the tundra.
About 82,000 acres of Colorado are burning right now. We could see the smoke from these fires in the distance.
Just a view.
And another. The rest of these pics are of the plants and animals we saw.
A marmot.
Tons of elk. I had to crop this one down because they were so far away.
A squirrel snacking.
Another squirrel attacking me.
A moose and her offspring. We saw 3 moose in all.
Mountain goats. These were really really far away so I had to crop in. You can barely make them out.
Moss in a very windy place.
The windy place.
June 23, 2012
Camping In Arches
Yesterday we hiked up to a bunch of arches and revisited Canyonlands to see the Grand View.
Earlier in the day we got our permit to camp in the backcountry and scouted out this trail to hike out and camp.
We returned later in the day and set up camp. At night we could see every star in the sky. It was warm enough to sleep out under the stars.
We got up at 4:30am to hike out of the backcountry, drive over to Delicate Arch, and hike the 1.5 mile trail up to it. Having finished up in Arches, we had breakfast at the Jailhouse Cafe in Moab and decided to come up to Colorado to visit Rocky Mountains National Park. Now we’re in Boulder.
June 21, 2012
Canyonlands and Arches
Today we spent most of our time exploring Canyonlands along the paved drive where we hiked to Mesa Arch (above) and Upheaval Dome (below).
Upheaval Dome.
Then we went over to Gemini Bridges and saw two twin bridges side by side over a deep canyon.
On the way to Gemini Bridges there’s a great view of the La Sal mountains.
We dropped by Metal Masher, a famous off-road track for heavily modified vehicles.
Here are some better equipped (or deeper pocketed) jeeps tackling Metal Masher.
We found a great road that intersects 191 just outside Moab.
The road took us up higher and higher.
View along the way.
We had lunch in Moab and then went out to Arches for some late day shots of the rock formations. This is the underside of one of the window arches.
Balanced Rock as the sun fades.
Another arch in Arches. The park has over 2,000 arches.
Tomorrow we’re camping in Arches. We’ve got a lot of video but its taking forever to import and put together.
June 19, 2012
Monument Valley, Valley Of The Gods, Moki Dugway
An old Ford used for selling handmade Navajo jewelry at Monument Valley.
Along the Moki Dugway overlooking Valley Of The Gods.
Lots of pics and video that have to be sorted through and limited internet access so more later. Tomorrow Canyonlands and the White Rim Trail.
June 18, 2012
Lunch In Amarillo, TX
Lunch at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX.
The world’s biggest fly swatter. Drastically reduced bug population across seven states.
June 16, 2012
Off To Utah
Time for another road trip!
Heading out in the morning. Back in a week and a half. Looking forward to a little camping, some light jeeping, a bit of hiking, some photo taking, video making, and wandering around the great orange state of Utah.
Several reasons to go back:
Etc. etc.
