Another fantastic visit to Capitol Reef National Park. The weather was perfect and summer monsoon rains had filled the back country potholes. Excellent conditions for back packing!
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Summer 2022
After a four year absence, the summer monsoon pattern finally returned to Southwest Colorado. The wildflowers and mushrooms responded enthusiastically to the daily rains and were out in force.
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We enjoyed another fine session of desert hiking and exploration this April. Our trip was comprised of a week in Capitol Reef, a day and night at Natural Bridges and a four day back pack followed by someday hiking in the Cedar Mesa/Grand Gulch/Bears Ears area.
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We spent a couple of days camping and hiking in Arches National Park at the end of November 2021. Karen had never been to Arches and it had been 20 + years since my last visit.
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This Fall we enjoyed an exceptional 11 day backpacking trip through Canyonlands National Park. We had originally reserved our Park Service Backcountry Permits with a start date of October 11. A large storm bringing the seasons first big snowfall was forecast for that day so we moved our permit forward 2 days.
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