Bears Ears National Monument – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:18:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg Bears Ears National Monument – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 The quiet popular place https://pmags.com/the-quiet-popular-place https://pmags.com/the-quiet-popular-place#respond Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:16:00 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=30216 The quiet popular place

November, with its fewer daylight hours and people, makes about the perfect time to backpacking a well-known loop. Read More ...

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Another weekend spent at the bottom of a canyon. Read More ...

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A PBS documentary that looks over the debate of Bears Ears from a locals viewpoint. Read More ...

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Two days in Cedar Mesa. Camping, hiking, sunset views, canyons, and remnants of the Ancestral Pueblo past. Read More ...

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Exploring two unmarked lesser known canyons in the Natural Bridges National Monument and Cedar Mesa. Read More ...

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Some hiking and backpacking in the Moab area. My friend Joan will soon be leaving the Moab area, so one last trip (for now!) had to be done. Read More ...

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Just a few days of enjoying basecamp in Bears Ears. I hiked, I read, I scrambled up the cliffs and just took in the views for hours at a time. Why? Because I can. :) Read More ...

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Three days in The Valley of The Gods. An ideal location for exploring the area. Read More ...

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Four days of backpacking and an additional day of hiking and camping exploring the Ancestral Pueblo culture in (what is for now) the Bears Ears National Monument at the Cedar Mesa and Grand Gulch areas. Read More ...

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