made a nice 23 mile overnighter out of it...
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Showing posts with label canyon. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Capitol Reef National Park
This rugged strip of land in southern Utah is worth checking out, and I'm not sure why it took me 10 years to do so. Its only four and half hours from my house to the deep sandstone canyons and broad deserts that make up this weird, and completely unique part of the planet. Capitol Reef is an exceptional place to wander through when the temperatures are in the mid 70's and the weather is pristine, as it was for my girlfriends birthday. We checked out the halls creek narrows at the southern end of the park, and
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Zion
Its been a while since I've been to zion, it was as just as hot as I remember. Mid july is not the best time at all to visit the park, extreme crowds and heat are guaranteed. We were on a mission to show our friend from switzerland something crazy before he left, southern utah is about as crazy as it gets.
^first stop was gooseberry mesa to ride the famous slickrock trails. Our timing was good, riding at sunset to avoid the penetrating heat. It was very impressive, and none of us had ever seen anything like it.
^The trail ends at this point. Crazy.
^Neil riding over some exposure.
^Kilian has been helping Inspired Media for some time now, and he has been here in Utah for the last month doing all sorts of graphic and design work. We thought 3 days of camping in the desert would be a unique way to end his trip
^Camping on the mesa gave us a huge view of the sky. The milky way appeared as a rainbow from one end of the sky to the other. crazy
^looking east towards zion and the moon is rising over the great domes
^a few hours later and the sun follows.
^Hiking in the lower narrows of Zion canyon was really nice. On our second day we had planned a hike into the eastern part of the park to explore a remote river, but ended up going the wrong way and just walked around in the desert for 6 miles. We went to the narrows to cool off.
The desert is a harsh place of beauty.
^first stop was gooseberry mesa to ride the famous slickrock trails. Our timing was good, riding at sunset to avoid the penetrating heat. It was very impressive, and none of us had ever seen anything like it.
^The trail ends at this point. Crazy.
^Neil riding over some exposure.
^Kilian has been helping Inspired Media for some time now, and he has been here in Utah for the last month doing all sorts of graphic and design work. We thought 3 days of camping in the desert would be a unique way to end his trip
^Camping on the mesa gave us a huge view of the sky. The milky way appeared as a rainbow from one end of the sky to the other. crazy
^looking east towards zion and the moon is rising over the great domes
^a few hours later and the sun follows.
^Hiking in the lower narrows of Zion canyon was really nice. On our second day we had planned a hike into the eastern part of the park to explore a remote river, but ended up going the wrong way and just walked around in the desert for 6 miles. We went to the narrows to cool off.
The desert is a harsh place of beauty.
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