May 11th, 2012
Every year we try to make at least one trip to California to visit my family in Sacramento. Of course we always make time for a quick camping trip near the ocean, typically in Point Reyes.
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We spent the first few days of our trip driving across Nevada and hanging out in Sacramento. On Sunday we stocked up on goodies at Trader Joes then drove to Samuel P. Taylor State Park to camp for the night. With no public land remotely close to the bay area a $35 a night car camping spot is about as good as it gets. Those of us living in Utah where there’s so much public land available for free camping don’t realize how lucky we are really are. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: backpacking, camping, Coast Camp, Crissy Fields, family, kids, lightning, photos, Point Reyes, rain, Samuel p taylor, San Francisco, state park, sunset
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May 7th, 2012
So once again I ended up with Wave permits and the plan changed a dozen times in the preceding months. To keep with the tradition of my other trips to the wave, the closer we got to leaving the weather forecast got colder and windier.
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Day1:
The trip started out with my friend Jake and I leaving Springville on Friday in his Land Cruiser headed south towards Escalante. We made great time and a few hours later we were at the trail head for Bull Valley Gorge ready for our first hike of the weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Bull Valley Groge, coyote buttes north, Escalante National Monument, fines, grand star case, Kodachrome Basin, permits, Round Valley Draw, the wave, Trail head, where the ranger?, white pocket, wire pass
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April 20th, 2012
Typically our first family camping trip of the year happens around my birthday in March but due to our already jam packed spring camping schedule Clint and I made a quick trip to the Moab area to celebrate the occasion. The plan was to make a quick cheap trip in the Camry to and shoot some star trails and do a bit of hiking.
We left Thursday after work and went directly to Island in the Sky with plans to shoot stat trails at False Kiva followed by a Mesa Arch sunrise. We grabbed the last site in the campground and drove out to the False Kiva trail head and began hiking just after sunset. We rushed down the trail and got the cameras setup just in time to catch the last trickle of day light. I forgot my flash in the car so I used my black diamond orbit lantern to illuminate the the Kiva and alcove and it worked out pretty well. We spent a few hours in the dark shooting then hiked out from False Kiva and drove back to our camp site. After setting up our tents we went for a walk to the green river overlook where it was so dark you couldn’t see anything but stars.
Friday morning we were up before sunrise and headed to Mesa Arch. To our delight only 8 or so other photographers there. I’ve heard at times it can be a real nightmare of people trying to capture this iconic shot so we were pretty lucky to have such a small crowd. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: arches national park, cable arch, Canyonlands, False Kiva, fin, funnel arch, longs expsoure, mesa arch, moab, night, star trails, stars, sunrise, Utah
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