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I hope it will be (in a good way), anyway! I'd been in a bit of a quandary as to where to go for New Years due to long nights & cold temperatures as my preference is for camping. I know, what do I expect that time of year? I-70 in CO, particularly Vail Pass, gets really bad, especially since...

It was a rainy day, not too bad, but enough to make me realize that I wouldn't want to be walking out from Corona Arch if the slabs were running with water. Corona Arch outside of Moab, UT Pinto Arch is on the way to Corona Arch. I've always forgotten to stop there on my way out (until this...

But something I have much more interest in. I returned to some petroglyphs I'd gone to some years ago. It had taken multiple attempts to find, then I couldn't find them again for an equal number of trips. I spent some time with Google Earth & was able find them again, but somehow, even though...

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Alan mentioned how he'd like to see the detail at Crystal Geyser. This was a focus stack of 7 images.

I stopped off at Crystal Geyser on my way to Labyrinth canyon and this time used my "real" camera. The sun was lower than almost a month ago and made a big difference in the colors, especially the greens. This is a 4-shot vertical pano.

I spent Thanksgiving back in Labyrinth Canyons Wilderness Area. This time I hiked out to the overlook for Bowknot Bend. I wish there was a way to get down 1 more level, but without a rope & ascenders to get back out, it's not a go. It's an 8-mile hike (RT). No trail, just enough cairns to...

One of the places I got the smallest taste of was and need to go back to was Labyrinth Canyon. This was the right side of a bowknot bend (not the only one there -- it's called Labyrinth for a reason!). At one point, it takes 8 river miles to go <1/2 mile as the crow flies. On the far side is...

A place near & dear to Ben's heart (I think). About the only place I've been to that is called something likening it to the Grand Canyon that deserves it. the bottom center crag, if I've remembered it correctly, had some absolutely pristine pictographs. The hike started in the valley in the...

This little arch is in Buckhorn Wash in the northern San Rafael Swell not far from Green River, UT. I guess there used to be a ruin in an alcove just below and to the right, but the rocks there looked like a modern addition to my untrained eye.

Halloween was still a few days away, but I figured that Goblin Valley would be better on a Thursday than the weekend. The Chamber of the Basilisk aka Goblins Lair is a very short slot canyon that, instead of rapelling into, can be walked into from the bottom. The dog really hates being lowered...

Just outside of Green River, UT is a micro-Yellowstone. Crystal Geyser is a cold water, carbon-dioxide driven geyser. Sometime in the past, it would erupt to 130', but now are no more than 10'. In it's current form, it was created by oil exploration drilling, which went 2600' deep. It was...

Mount Sopris dominates the landscape around Carbondale, CO. Even though sunrise is the classic shot, I thought I might get some sidelight in the evening, and, what the heck, I was there and there were some clouds. The ones at that particular level lit up nicely in contrast to the higher ones...

I blasted out to Carbondale, CO in hopes that the fall colors wouldn't have faded. While some trees have dropped their leaves, there were still others with green. The gamble oaks were in fine form. After driving up and down this road, hiking up & down to ridge lines in a couple of spots, I...

I rather liked the riot of colors & textures here. But don't let that stop you from saying so if you think it's too busy.

Douglas Sherman asked me to post shots I had of these canyons. Viewer beware: these were back in P&S days. Didn't even own a tripod at that point, much less know about filters or post-processing. I'm not positive, but I think #3 & 5, possibly #2 are from Cardiac. It was 80-something degrees...

No, not the pricey ski town in Colorado. This was across the road from where I camped along Curecanti Creek in central Colorado. The area had gotten closed off to ORVs, the old tracks nicely grown over with grass. Lots of beautiful spots to camp if you don't mind walking in -- I could see why...

Out scouting locations for fall foliage, I found this nice stand. Fortunately, there were no elk nearby to attract the elk bow hunters that were in the area. There are few enough people who frequent the area that the aspen trunks have largely survived without people carving their names or...

Gentiana parryi. Just in case any of you thought I was only photographing sunflowers lately........;) These were on the way in/out of Wheeler Geologic Area. There were several large meadows awash in gentians....and ATV tracks where people decided to leave the road & drive through the meadows...

This is a small part of that 4 mile long field of sunflowers outside of the Sand Dunes. I was outside of where the entrance station is, but barely inside the park. The vast majority of the sunnies were behind me, but then the dunes (already small from this position) would have been minuscule...