In mid-September, we spent a couple of days immersed in the ancient Puebloan ruins at Hovenweep National Monument and Canyons of the Ancients National Monuments. These spectacular ruins are located off the beaten path on the border of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. We hiked trails to almost every ruin in the area, visited the […]
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Yesterday we hiked a six-mile round-trip trail deep into Canyonlands National Park—the Chesler Park trail. It was a fairly moderate hike, although it did involve some scrambling over slickrock. We saw a handful of people on the trail, but mostly, it was just the two of us in an enormous wild landscape of rock formations, […]
Canyonlands National Park is spacious, uncrowded, and absolutely gorgeous. Although we’ve visited (more than once) the other national parks in Utah (Arches, Bryce, Capitol Reef, and Zion), this was our first visit to Canyonlands. We’re glad we made the effort. We’re not sure why we bypassed this park on our many other trips to the […]
In mid-September, we made our fourth visit to Moab. We like coming here for the beautiful red rock landscape and the fantastic and interesting hiking in Arches National Park. But we were taken aback this trip to find that we had LOTS of company, and remembered that we generally visit here in mid-October or later, […]
Unlike every other national park we’ve visited, there’s no entrance fee for Great Basin National Park. We were surprised by this, but then figured it’s because: 1) the park is in the middle of nowhere 2) it’s in Nevada 3) visiting a national park in the middle of nowhere in Nevada is not high on […]
This is our third night in this peaceful Forest Service campground in the mountains of northeastern Nevada. Although there are few other campers and it seems far from civilization, we have excellent Verizon coverage, which has enabled me to get some necessary writing work completed. I like my office at home with its view of […]
Middle of the night. Me: “What are you doing?” Eric: “Shh! I’m listening.” “To WHAT?” “The pitter-patter of little feet.” At first, I thought he was dreaming. But then, I heard it, too—scritch, scritch. We flipped on the light, and there it was—a tiny brown field mouse, racing across the counter, and then disappearing down […]
We hiked in Lamoille Canyon twelve years ago, and have wanted to return ever since. Deep in the Ruby Mountains in northeastern Nevada, these gorgeous rugged mountains are like a miniature Zion canyon, without the crowds. We arrived mid-day after spending Saturday night in a BLM campground above Winnemucca. Our site at Water Canyon was […]
I used to hate driving through Nevada, dreading the hundreds of miles of dusty, scrubby terrain that seemed to stretch interminably in every direction. But I’ve come to appreciate the great expanses, the peacefulness, and the quiet beauty of the landscape. I’ve discovered that if you dig a bit beneath the surface, Nevada reveals her […]
It wasn’t easy (it never is), but we finally escaped the gravitational pull of Ashland at around 2:00 p.m. yesterday. No matter how much advance planning we do, or how much time we give ourselves to get everything done, it always takes longer than we think, and there are always things that come up to […]
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