There is no reason not to have a plan B or even a plan C when camping in the desert. Our plan A was shot down and soon after plan B was gone as well.
After work we packed up and hit the road around 4 and headed up Spanish Fork canyon towards the swell. The original plan was to drive down to the San Rafael Desert to hike Moonshine, Colonade Arch, and Horseshoe Canyon then head to Goblin Valley to our reserved campsite for some showers and time in the goblins. (more…)
In order to camp every month consecutively for one year Nick and I met up for a quick cold winter trip to the San Rafael Swell in mid January. We got off to an early start and made it down to Uneva canyon around 1pm, there was a small amount of snow on the ground and lots of ice within the canyon.
Nick on the ice in Uneva Canyon (more…)
All of a sudden it’s October and things are starting to cool off in a hurry so last weekend we made our last family camping trip of the year. Because it was UEA we decided on visiting some of the more remote locations in the San Rafael Swell.
We started off the trip with a short hike down Red Draw, a tributary of Eardley Canyon. We had made 4 or 5 trips down Red Draw to access Upper Eardley canyon in the past but this was our first visit in the last 6 years. Once we got about a half mile down Red Draw we discovered that every pot hole was filled to the brim and all the bypassing and scrambling was going to add quite a bit of time to our hike. We made it down to the Red Holes and decided to turn around rather than continue down into Eardley only to get stopped by the big potholes around the confluence of these canyons.
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