Mesa Verde National Park is 52,000 acres and protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites. There are several cliff dwellings to tour, some are self-guided while others including Balcony House and Cliff Palace require joining a ranger guided tour. We started off by driving into the park and hiking to the Step House dwelling. The drive itself …
Boggy Draw We moved on from Bears Ears and settled in Cortez, Colorado for the week. Both of us were pretty eager to mountain bike so we hit up the Boggy Draw trail network for a few hours of singletrack. We find a lot of our riding on either Trailforks or MtbProject, both great apps! …
John’s Canyon You win some you lose some. Today we attempted to ride John’s Canyon Road out by Gooseneck State Park. There was nobody around, no cars, no people…except for the guy in the grader. After a couple miles of fairly good gravel we encountered him. After that, the road sucked. The grading had churned …
Folks, this was a doozy. From our camp spot, do you call it a camp spot when you live in a trailer all the time? Anyway, from camp we rode gravel bikes out Valley of the Gods road to Highway 261, up 3 miles of switchbacks on the cliff, out road 241 to Muley Point …
Bears Ears Today’s ride was a keeper. We road up and out Elk Ridge State Scenic Backway past Bears Ears and then just kept going. The dirt road actually goes out 87 miles towards Canyonlands but we can’t leave Fletcher alone that long so we did 17 out and then turned around and came back. …
Mule Canyon Hike We hiked Mule Canyon the other day. I think it was around 6 miles. A lot of our time was spent up on the cliff sides picking our way along the slickrock and looking for ruins. We found 4 different sites. The first ruin we came to was House on Fire. It’s …
Quiet. We’re camping in the Valley of the Gods and it is quiet. I love it. Coffee in the morning is amazing. Me, Derek, Fletcher, and the gods. Cool monolithic sandstone formations dot the valley floor all around us. These behemoths were formed by water, wind, and ice over 250 million years ago. After driving from Escalante up through the …
Lower Calf Creek Falls Over the last four months we have hiked to a lot of waterfalls. Tucson had some of my favorites! Lower Calf Creek Waterfall was the easiest to get to. The drive along Highway 12 to get to the hike was amazing!! This hike was 6.2 miles with around 600′ elevation gain, …
With the threat of rain in the forecast, we decided to do a few short hikes so we could dash back to the truck if needed. All the hikes were off Hole in the Rock Road. Hole-in-the-Rock came about after a scouting party of Mormons set out to find a site for a new settlement …
We said goodbye to our friends in Virgin and hit the road. I like moving day. I like seeing the countryside, passing through towns, wondering why people are where they are and what life is like for them. We found a nice quiet spot in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and settled in. Zebra And …