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Home »Posts tagged  Colorado (Page 2)

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Grand times in the monument

Posted onFebruary 1, 2024April 13, 2025AuthorPaul MagsLeave a comment

Though we enjoy our life in Moab, we do not find as many services in our desert home as in other places. So, like many good Moab-ites, we find we do more and more of our errands in the “big Read More …

CategoriesOther Outdoor JauntsTagsColorado, Colorado National Monument

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, 2023March 13, 2025AuthorPaul 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, 2022January 27, 2026AuthorPaul Mags10 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, 2022January 27, 2026AuthorPaul Mags7 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 Mags2 Comments

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

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We did some volunteer work for an organization we are active with on Saturday and Sunday, and made it into a local camping trip in between the assignments.
Some local hiking this weekend. I scouted a route for a possible packrafting trip later this month, and on Sunday, @ramblinghemlock and I meandered through a canyon we’ve been curious about for a while.
I can’t imagine this landscape with a wall.
Two years inside the Park Service, trying to balance trade and calling. I left in fall 2025, and I’m still making sense of it - part grief, part gratitude, and part closure.
With a brief but noticeable bit of winter this past week, we opted not to travel the muddy, snowy roads into more remote areas. Instead, we tackled some home projects on Saturday and spent Sunday revisiting a place we hadn’t seen in a while. Red rock, canyon wrens, images, and late winter desert light accompanied the day.
@ramblinghemlock and I pivoted from an original trip after much-needed rain on Friday. On Saturday, we avoided muddy roads that would have derailed our original plan and spent two nights poking around a place we could reach only because of temporary, water-filled potholes and a handy Ziploc bag that made it possible. We also revisited sights we hadn’t seen in a while. Red rock, grand views, and old images marked the unofficial long weekend kickoff of spring around Moab.

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