At the recent 2011 Overland Expo, Gary reunited with many of the Camel Trophy team members from years past. From left to right, Fred Monsees, (US Team Siberia), Gary Wescott, (US Team Journalist), Lea Magee, (US Team Siberia), and Andy Dacey, (UK Team Siberia). Old memories gave us all a smile, remembering winching through the […]
On the map, the blind crossing of the Freemont River looked interesting. During higher water, this entrance into the Cathedral Valley Loop trail would not be advisable. Standing on the cliffs overlooking Cathedral Valley, we could only imagine what Indian Chief might have posed for a million years as wind, rain and snow carved this […]
May 16, 2011: It’s an Exciting Day in Nevada City For the second time in a row, and this time quite by accident due to inclement weather at Lake Tahoe, Nevada City was the impromptu starting point for the annual Amgen Tour of California bicycle race. Of course, we had to walk downtown and witness […]
The Waterpocket Fold is part of the greater Capitol Reef National Park. Between 50 and 70 million years ago an ancient buried fault moved upward and the overlying rock layers were draped above the fault forming a monocline, a nearly 100-mile long warp in the Earth’s crust. The Nortom-Bullfrog road took us along its very […]
The steep trail to the base one of the largest natural bridges in the world, called Sipapu, followed narrow ledges, steps carved into the sandstone, all linked by some well placed chicken ladders. Climbing back up was literally breath taking. The magnificent natural spans in the Natural Bridges National Monument were all accessible by foot […]
While taking sunset pictures in Valley of the Gods, Utah I noticed this strange spirit following me. Was it a God? Every time I moved, it moved. Finally I gave up and took a picture of it. No tip required. Ha….
Wandering across the tortuous 21-mile dirt track through Utah’s Valley of the Gods, we remembered that we had made a waypoint on our Lowrance GPS several years back. Turning off on a well-established ranch trail, we found our exact favorite camp beneath the imposing Castle Peak. This must be one of our most memorable camps […]
The Hovenweep ruins in southeastern Utah are interesting for their extraordinary stone masonry. These ancestral Puebloans lived here in the 13th century. They grew corn, beans, squash and other crops in nearby small fields and terraces, often using check dams for irrigation. Hovenweep is the Ute/Paiute name for “Deserted Valley” but the local Hopis who […]
