Day 4. Part 2. Bryce

Location: Bryce National Park, Utah Day 4. Part 2. Dixie National Forest, Red Canyon, and Bryce Canyon National Park. I have been a perpetual wayfarer for years now and been to many places that impacted me. All of them pale in comparison to the resonant magic I found...

Day 4: Canyon Lands

Location: Moab & Canyon Lands National Park, Utah Day 4. Part 1: Dead Horse Point State Park >> Canyonlands National Park. After Arches that reach to the sky, the counterbalance of valleys cut deep into the earth is striking. There was something about the...

Day 3. Part 2 Arches National Park

Location: Arches National Park, Utah Day 3: Arches National Park. It was 108 degrees in the park today. I decided to go hike in a few miles to some of the more popular arches. Normally a doable distance but the altitude coupled with the heat kicked me in the rear....

Day 3: Departing the Rockies

Location: Wolcott, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO Day 3: Early start. Heading West 300 miles as the land of white mountains gives way to red...

Day 2: Rockies at 12, 100ft

Location: Rocky Mountain National Park, CO Hiked Glacier Gorge, Bear Lake, Glacier Creek, and then proceeded up to 12,100ft in the high Rockies. Made a new friends in the local chipmunk population . . . alas, no food to give them. Only companionship. Now: Basecamp for...

Day 1: At Home in the Mountains

Location: Estes Park, CO Landed in Colorado, rent a car and wound my way up through Boulder to Estes Park—the gateway for Rocky Mountain National Park. Tomorrow I sent off into the mountains. the mountains are...