Roaming Around Moab, UT

“Not backpacking - car camping with the kids.

Always wanted to go, now I'm gonna.

Headed to Moab after work on Friday May 4, stay through the weekend, return to Denver late Sunday night.

Planning on doing a decent job exploring Arches and the surrounding area on Sat an Sun - leastways, the best i can given limited time and a daughter that won't enjoy deathmarches thru the desert.

Any suggestions for must see type places?

I have determined that the hard part about planning this will be deciding what will have to wait until the next trip.

I'm already planning on seeing the tourist type stuff in Arches, Devil's Courhouse, Delicate Arch and The Windows area and probably Klondike Bluffs, but what about outside the Park area - suggestions?”

“How old is the kid?”

“girl = 12 boy = 15

the boy will hike, the girl, well not so much, but she likes being out there.”

“nice views”

“Getchyerself a buggy whip!

Ha ha, that sounds like a nice trip, Pops.”

“oldog - saw that on the map - thanks - will add to the list.

I'm thinking that this will be a good trip to kinda get the lay of the land and serve for planning a more extensive trip at another time.”

“Lucky kids!”

“Didn't do it, but sure wished I had: Fiery Furnace hike at Arches, which has its own fee.”

“Oh yeah, and time it out so you see a sunset from the southern end of Island in Sky (or whatever it's called) section of Canyonlands.”

“Most of these views are from short walks around Island of the Sky and Dead Horse Point State Park.

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“Cool pics.... I don't remember ever looking at those from back in '05, but I'm sure i must have....

thanks for bumping them up.”

“Canyonlands Needles district”

“Kids should like Goblin Valley State Park. Little bit of a drive from Moab though.

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“woah - that looks weird.”

“There's evil goblins there.”

“USA, is there anywhere in the country that you don't have pictures of?

you amaze me!

I booked a campground today at Dead Horse Point St. Park!”

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Dead Horse State Park vista...

been there too. This shot taken at sunrise.

And Delicate Arch is an easy dayhike for kids...

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“see youn's on Monday.

:)”

“Have fun, you rascal!”

“Have you been to the Rainbow Bridge? By foot?”

“Hey Roam, you back tonight?”

“Never woulda thunk it'd have snowed on my tent in the 'desert'!

We woke up to snow saturday morning!

Totally cool!

TR and pics later today.... please stay tuned.”

“Can't wait. Hurry up! :-)”

“Green River Overlook in Canyonlands... The Green River made the white rimmed canyon. This is a few miles north of the Confluence.

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“Quit withholding now. Give.”

“Ewww, that is hideous!




:-D”

“Busy afternoon, but here's another...

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“You poor bastard!”

“Of course, when you go camping in the desert you totally expect to wake up to this:

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“Sorry? What's with the white stuff?”

“You shoulda seen the look on my face when I looked out and saw SNOW!

I'd heard thunder earlier in the morning adn could hear stuff hitting the tent, but I thought it was rain. Never would I have suspected that it was snowing!

The rain (and snow) made the desert really green and lots of things bloomed though - which was really cool.”

“Looking out over the Colorado River

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“Cool pics! Everything IS green!”

“Nice pics, Roam. Not convinced I'd like to hike in it.”

“edoc, it was on my "to do" list, but never got to Rainbow Bridge. At least not yet.

Nice photos, Roam.”

“Thanks - the rain and snow was a surprise for sure. I've got about a hunnert more pics to get 'fixed' and on webshots or somewhere for yall to gawk at.

Twas my first time in the desert and it wasn't at all like i expected, but it was a lot of fun. I found out enough about the places to be able to put together more of a 'trip' now.”

“Woo Hoo a trip!!!”

“see that road , its Shaffer Rd a old mining road ,I took my wife and two sons down it back to Moab in a Chevy Blazer several years ago .The wife said she would kill me if I ever took her on a road like that again”

“he he, ridin' on the edge, eh?”

“Trip?

Give us another pic. It's tues, how busy could you be today? ;)”

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“Must have been a really good one eh?”

“nah, i uploaded a bunch of pics to webshots, but they were all dark for some reason. I think the resolution was too much for them.”

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“nice pics from what I can tell on my computer at work. I will check them out tonight at home.

dang your kids have grown since I first met them at Mt Rogers”

“lol, yeah - alex is taller than i am now. Pennsy said the same thing when he was out here.”

“Great pics Roam, Thanks!”

“*burp* Great Pics Roam!”