We’ve been out hiking at Sand Canyon in Cortez, CO a few times. It’s a great option for early season when other things might be under snow or muddy. This time we hiked out the main Sand Canyon Trail to get a look at some of the dwellings. What I like about this hike is …
Some days it’s spring here in SW Colorado, some days it’s winter. On a spring day I went for a hike up to Park Point Lookout in Mesa Verde National Park. I like this hike for it’s views and this time of year, it’s solitude. The hike normally starts from the end of the campground …
Wintery conditions exist above 7’000′ (where our trailer is), so mountain biking is limited to a few select locations. We’re sprinkling in some hiking around the Mancos, CO area. For those who don’t know, this is in SW Colorado and at high elevation. We have spent a lot of time in this area off and …
Wow, these year end review posts are always so fun. We went a lot of places this past year and saw a lot of new things. It’s a big wide world out there and as we go into year 7 fulltime RV travelling, lets look back at some of the magic of 2024. We visited …
We spent some time a couple years ago in Mohave National Preserve but never went to the sand dunes. Several cool hikes and rides occupied our time and you can read about them here. This time, on our migration south we stopped overnight at the Kelso Sand Dunes. The dune field covers 45 square miles and includes …
We had blasting winds the other night that lasted into the morning so we were cooped up in the trailer waiting it out. A little after noon we braved the gusts and went for a short hike by Cedar Pockets a short distance from St. George, Utah. This isn’t a destination hike really, just something …
Southern Utah is famous for red rock canyons and towering cliffs. Descriptive words will never do this area justice. The massive sandstone cliffs of cream, pink, and red soar into a brilliant blue sky. Long before today’s landscape even appeared, streams, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes deposited thousands of feet of mud, lime, sand, and ash across the …
Cathedral Gorge’s beauty began with explosive volcanic activity that, with each eruption, deposited layers of ash hundreds of feet thick. About five million years after the eruptions ceased, block faulting, a fracture in the bedrock that allows the two sides to move opposite each other, shaped the mountains and valleys prevalent in Nevada today. This faulting …
The Lehman Cave system began forming around 550 million years ago while the area was still submerged in a relatively warm, shallow ocean. As sediment layers built up on the bottom of this sea, limestone was formed from the silt, sand and skeletal remains of sea life. The limestone was greatly compressed as a result of the pressure of the …
There is a fun little trail around the rocks and hills of Sacramento Pass. We hiked this loop on our last day in the area and it has some really interesting features. You can mountain bike it too, but it would be pretty tough. The loop is a mix of trail and rocks with one …