Category : road trips

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The Black Canyon of the Gunnison Is Really More of a Dark Russet Color

Posted on: 3 August 2016 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

One of the primary goals of this summer’s road trip was knocking off a couple of theretofore unvisited national parks. Black Canyon of the Gunnison: knocked off (now). It’s one of the newer national parks and, common with other newer national parks, it’s not quite Yosemite or Yellowstone. It’s sort of like a much smaller,

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Hiking the Narrows II: The Wrath of Zion

Posted on: 2 August 2016 /
Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

Overnight version of the Virgin River Narrows, undertaken July 23-24, 2016. The weather was warm. River flow was somewhere in the 40s, whatever that means. Ranger said there were no expected thunderstorms but that that could change at any second, and probably would, especially if I didn’t give him the exact license plate number of

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Hemmed-in-Hollow Falls and Goat Bluff Loop Hike

Posted on: 1 July 2016 /
Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

Almost all information about hiking to Hemmed-in-Hollow Falls (in the Ozarks, Ponca Wilderness Area) that I could find prior to going on the hike referred to it as an out-and-back. I found one resource that combined it with the Goat Bluff destination to make it into a shuttle hike. For anyone wondering, though, there’s a really

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