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Rock Images Gallery

Posted onNovember 25, 2023November 25, 2023AuthorPaul Mags9 Comments

Over 200 images for your perusal. Mainly The Four Corners area, some from Nevada, the High Plains, and even a few from north of Banff. Updated Nov 2023. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsArizona, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, High Plains, Nevada, New Mexico, Petroglyphs, pictographs, utah

To the higher San Juans

Posted onSeptember 12, 2023AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

Four days in our favorite local(ish) mountains, Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, san juans

San Juan interlude

Posted onSeptember 4, 2023September 4, 2023AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A quick overnighter in the lower San Juans. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, san juans

Images, not vandalism

Posted onAugust 11, 2023August 11, 2023AuthorPaul Mags7 Comments

Thoughts on why images are not vandalism. And reasons why people are calling them images rather than “rock art” as well. Read More …

CategoriesMusingsTagsAncestral Pueblo, Arizona, Colorado, favorite, Friday repost, New Mexico, Petroglyphs, pictrographs, utah

On the Grand Mesa

Posted onJuly 10, 2023AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A quick overnighter to the world largest flatop mountain. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, Grand Mesa

Ski and High Desert

Posted onFebruary 28, 2023February 28, 2023AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

Some skiing with friends and then taking it easy with Joan. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, Dead Horse Point State Park, utah

An ancient canyon

Posted onOctober 26, 2022October 26, 2022AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A bit of camping, hiking, and meandering in an obscure canyon not far from the Utah border. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado

Into the San Juans

Posted onSeptember 14, 2022September 14, 2022AuthorPaul Mags5 Comments

Another weekend to the nearby San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, San Juan Mountains

In the canyons of the ancients

Posted onAugust 31, 2022August 31, 2022AuthorPaul Mags5 Comments

A weekend in a quiet area with no one around. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsCanyons of the Ancients, Colorado

Into the La Platas

Posted onAugust 1, 2022August 3, 2022AuthorPaul Mags6 Comments

With Joan up in Cortez, CO, for a two-week workshop, we decided to spend some time in the nearby La Plata Mountains. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado

The Grand – Moab Route

Posted onMay 30, 2022March 5, 2023AuthorPaul Mags8 Comments

The Grand – Moab route makes an ~140mi long walk to savor the lesser-seen places in between Grand Junction, CO and Moab, UT at the edge of the Colorado Plateau. Read More …

CategoriesLong WalksTagsColorado, Colorado Plateau, GMR, Grand Junction, Moab, utah

Grand Junction to Moab – The Grand-Moab Route

Posted onMay 19, 2022January 29, 2023AuthorPaul Mags8 Comments

Backpacking from the confluence of the Gunnison and the Colorado River to Moab for ~140 miles. Read More …

CategoriesLong WalksTagsColorado, GMR, utah

PACKrafting Dominguez Canyon and the Gunnison

Posted onApril 21, 2022October 17, 2023AuthorPaul Mags5 Comments

A pacrkrafting trip up Dominguez Canyon, over the Umpcompaghre, and down to the Gunnison to float back to the truck. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, Dominguez Canyon, packrafting, Uncompahgre Plateau

A warm December camp

Posted onDecember 8, 2021December 8, 2021AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

We spent a night dispersed camped, hiked to a set of Pueblo towers, and then visited friends. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsAncestral Pueblo, Canyons of the Ancients, Colorado

A weekend on Uncompahgre Plateau

Posted onNovember 11, 2021AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A place Joan and I spent some time two weeks ago and we re-visited. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, Uncompahgre Plateau

Seeing old friends at an old favorite

Posted onNovember 9, 2021November 9, 2021AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A weekend to reacquaint ourselves with friends at a place Joan and I have always enjoyed seeing. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsCanyons of the Ancients, Colorado

Canyons to Plateau and back – Dominguez Canyon

Posted onOctober 27, 2021February 24, 2023AuthorPaul Mags8 Comments

A revisit to the Big Dominguez to Little Dominguez route. I added some updated info as it seems people do this route but aren’t aware of information to do it safely or that you even need wag bags now. Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, Dominguez Canyon

On the mellow side

Posted onSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 2021AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

A casual backpack with a lullaby at night. Read More …

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