Adventure
Carrizo Badlands Loop
It’s been a while, and I’ve been itching to play in the desert. It’s hard to balance being a parent, a desire to sit on my rear and do nothing, and the always-burning drive to do little (or big) adventures. This day was a good mix of all — I slept in a bit, made […]
Read MoreThe Dangers of the Patio
It started innocently enough. An outdoor dining table here, an outdoor couch there, and pretty soon…
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Overland Stage Route and Canyon sin Nombre
Today’s exploration opened up quite a bit of new, very interesting territory for me. I can easily keep myself busy in this…
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Three Days in November
Three-and-a-half days of sleeping in our car, hiking and exploring by day, and relaxing or working on personal projects at night…
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Marion Mountain Trail
Two weeks seems to be my limit. If my feet haven’t moved me through a landscape, or if I haven’t ridden a bike through the hills, I begin to…
Read MoreNight Runs
I’m constantly rearranging the schedule. It’s an effort to squeeze more time out of the day; a futile effort to extract an extra three or four hours that I seem to always need, but which of course is never actually there. Regardless, I try things. I stay up late, wake early, wake up in the […]
Read MoreBeing Adventurous as a Parent
To many I would imagine, especially to those who aren’t into the outdoors, we’ve done a lot. We’ve done numerous camping trips with our little one, small hikes, and some bike rides. We have even managed a few backpacking trips in the Sierras with our little one. However, with the exception of some of the […]
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Dripping Springs Loop
There were definitely times where I muttered to myself that I would never do this trail again. It wasn’t the elevation gain, but the lower reaches were quite crowded, and the top portion was extremely brushy, for a couple miles. Not only were you plowing through brush, in some places your were hunched over, nearly […]
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Tenaja Canyon Trail
It can be hard to see in these times of stupidity, just how lucky we are. Trump just led the charge to reduce the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — a place that has been protected for the past 21 years, the majority of my life. National parks and monuments, I had assumed were […]
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Oriflamme Canyon and Pinyon Mountain Valley
Today was the exploration of two areas which are fairly close together, Oriflamme Canyon and Pinyon Mountain Valley. I started with a ride out Oriflamme Canyon, which I’m hoping to do as a loop trip at some point. The second ride of the day was out Pinyon Mountain Valley, which I greatly enjoyed. The desert […]
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