CR: Car Touristing in Cathedral Valley

Friday 11th & Saturday 12th May 2018. To finish our exploration of Capitol Reef, we wanted to see the Temples of the Sun and Moon. This required a 60-ish mile dirt-road drive. Would have been an excellent mountain bike route, if we could have found rental bikes. The route began with a knee-deep fording of […]

CR: Muley Twist D4

Thursday 10th May 2018. No idea of miles. A fair few. And a bit of up too. Upper Muley Twist is a much more popular destination. I guess because it can be done as a day walk, and there are half a dozen or so arches to see.

CR: Muley Twist D3b

Wednesday 9th May 2018. ~18 miles The second part of our backpack was to be Upper Muley Twist Canyon. The trailhead was a mile or so along the road from where we parked for Lower MT canyon and I’d originally intended to walk, leaving the car where it was. But I’m old, slow, tired and […]

CR: Muley Twist D3a

Wednesday 9th May 2018. ~18 miles Next morning we packed up and got an early start back North along Halls Creek, which was a much more open valley than Lower Muley canyon

CR: Muley Twist D2

Tuesday 8th May 2018. Pottering miles. Lovely dawn after a pretty toasty night serenaded by frogs.

CR: Muley Twist D1

Monday 7th May 2018 about 15 miles. Off backpacking again. 🙂 First, we had to get to the trailhead. A few miles along a heavily washboarded dirt road, up 25% gradient switchbacks, we were happy to have the large volume tires of an SUV, and it’s the first time I’ve ever had the 4 wheel drive […]

CR: Navajo Knobs

Sunday 6th May 2018 9.4 mi (15.2km) +1620′ (494 m) Warming up with a day walk from the Fruita area, we chose the Navajo Knobs & Rim Overlook trail. With a name like that, presumably, it’ll have some good views. It was pretty warm (I seem to say that a lot on our Western US […]

Capitol Reef 5-13 May 2018

We took what is becoming a familiar flight from Boston to Salt Lake City, this one a very late Friday night departure. We stayed next to the airport in SLC overnight then, on Saturday morning raided Walmart for 50 liters of bottled water and a camera tripod (coz someone forgot to pack either one of […]