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ITTOG.....when I left home I had originally planned to spend all of November & most of December exploring in Grand Gulch in southeast Utah for the exact reason that you expressed.....I'm addicted to that area. Had the truck not broke down & had November not been so cold, I'd be posting from...

ITTOG.....David Roberts, the author of "In Search of the Old Ones", is without a doubt absolutely one of my favorite writers. I read that book probably a year ago now and loved it (more than likely posted about it here). Now that you've finished that book and enjoyed it, I'd suggest you read two...

Probably nothing pleased me more than when I stumbled across the Anasazi Trail.....I actually had no idea what to expect but just the name suggested that something of great interest to me was to follow..... It was a pretty good hike.....not overly challenging but surprisingly route finding...

ITTOG.....agreed.....the wooden peg construction stood out to me..... There was so much to see, so much to do.....so many places to explore here.....I think we spent maybe a week exploring & hiking here.....we hiked every trail and we attempted to climb to two mountain summits.....

Arjan.....I think it's mostly communication stuff. Verizon towers are probably most often seen. It's not uncommon to see power poles or even underground power lines run up to the mountain summits. And then there's solar panels and huge back up generators. I hate it but on the other hand I hate...

There were two false summits on this particular climb.....and the trail was located on the north side of these false summits..... From trailhead to summit was approximately 3.5 miles.....I'd say that those two false summits were the most difficult part of this climb.....the north side of...

From here, we drove west and eventually we connected with Interstate 15, and then we drove south to our next unplanned brief stop.....we simply stopped at this next spot to stretch the legs and to allow the dogs to do their thing(s).....being an avid user of Fitbit, I'm hell bent on walking a...

Riversdad / mekcanix.....I felt so bad for Trapper & I've since thought about purchasing the booties but my inclination is that she would chew them right off. I've also thought previously to purchase the booties for hiking in the southwest due to all the plants with thorns. I often wonder how...

My hope for that day was to stand on the summit of Joseph Peak (9,325')..... But it was not to be.....Trapper only suffered more as we hiked even higher.....so we left without a summit but we did indeed have a wonderful day in the mountains.....5.9 miles with 1,750' of elevation gain...

We then headed further south, a phrase you'll read often now as we travel down the highway.....we took the paved secondary roads south, arrived in Joseph, Utah with plans to climb yet another peak. From here we drove west on a Forest Service road as we entered the FishLake National Forest ...

JD.....how's the new pup working out ? And yea to catch the Tetons covered in the early winters' snow is a real blessing.....and it's even better to catch it on a day when the sky is filled with a mix of white, fluffy clouds.....that's perfection..... Now the goal was to get in one more small...

The highpoint of Venice Peak was marked with this small boulder pile..... But way to the north along the ridgeline I could see a man made monument but it was obviously at a lower point.....on the way there we came across the skeleton of a hawk.....it's last breathe taken on a mountain...

Later that afternoon I found myself in the camper.....still restless.....still not satisfied. The beauty of Utah is that there are mountain peaks nearly everywhere that you look.....so off we went to climb Venice Peak (6,432')..... i parked the rig on a ranchers' property and started our...

The following day (November 8, 2022) we were right back at it climbing Carter Peak (6,718').....shown below.....the taller of the two cone shaped peaks..... And again we took the Jeep to the "trailhead" (which is actually an abandoned 4 wheel drive roadway) and began our 3.4 mile roundtrip...

We continued south now looking for a nearby mountain to climb.....an internet search came up with Black Cap Mountain (6,597') .....we dropped the truck / camper off at the city park in Salina, Utah and headed up into the mountains in the Jeep once again..... There was no actual trailhead...

Riversdad.....thanks.....I would think that the fall colors in those mountains in that area would be sensational. Past years I've spent on the eastern side of those mountains and caught some of those colors. Phenomenal ! This year I spent the past week exploring & climbing on the west...

Eventually the paved road took us well above the cloud cover and now the ground which was dotted with patches of snow had become covered completely in many inches of snow..... I decided to drop the Jeep where the paved road ended and from here on as we traveled upwards the stone road was...

I had been on Google and on my Utah maps looking for something beyond the town limits to explore and I came up with the Ephraim Canyon Heritage Tour..... For nearly the entire duration of this trip we have been cold and knowing that there was plenty of snow up high, I had no expectations to...

chet6.7.....FWIW, I talked to my Montana diesel mechanic, the Ford diesel mechanic, and 3 diesel mechanics at Addicted Diesel and it was unanimous.....that's a temporary fix to a long term problem. None of them thought that it was a good idea.....I guess this was more directed to Trailboss...

Riversdad.....same camera.....probably just got lucky. Yea the past 2 months with the vehicles has been a real strain. I'm well over $10,000 in repairs which sucks but honestly I'm just grateful that I can absorb the costs and move on down the road. So long as I'm healthy (or near healthy) I've...