Red Canyon, Black Heart: A (Brief) Hike

Red Canyon is in Southern Utah. It’s a little place that’s west of Bryce Canyon, which is a bigger place. Maybe. I haven’t measured. Bryce Canyon doesn’t seem all that big to be honest. While at Red Canyon, I hiked the Cassidy Trail up and then hung a left onto the Rich Trail (thinking this would help with my finances) and then, at the appropriate time, took the Ledge Point Trail.

Southern Utah Itinerary

Sort of just a quick post about the road trip I’m going on/am on. To Southern Utah. Escalante area and Paria Canyon 4-dayer. Woot.

The Indistinct Redwood National Park and a Bunch of Other Indistinct Little Parks

So after the coast, the trees. Y’know, on my cross-country road trip, during which I visited a bunch of parks, it came to my attention that not every national park is like the national parks in Washington state. The parks in Washington state make sense to me. They’re big, there’s a lot to do there,

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Way Northern California Coast

It’s been a couple weeks, but I don’t know that the photo album idea is really going to take off and even if it did, it’s not really a great forum for expressing the deepest, inner-most feelings of my heart regarding, you know, topographical features, coast lines and tall trees and such. Been a couple

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Things I Have to Do Before the Trip

Here ‘is: Get my truck serviced. Move the rest of my non-trip stuff into storage. Move my trip stuff out of storage. Buy a JetBoil. Make reservations for Boundary Waters and other parts of the trip that need reservations. Get signed up on health insurance. Get my interim mailing address squared away. Study for the

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