Canyon DeChelly/UT/AZ March 19-23rd 2008

[DakarTJ]

CDC Guid

Moody, you will love CDC. Here is the name and number of the guide I used. Ronnie is Dine and grow up in the canyon, moved away and came back. Her mother is a weaver so if you ever thought about a Dina rug. She is the one to talk to.

Ronnie Yoe
Home: 928-781-6850
Cell: 505-409-0193
Email: Veronica_byoe@yahoo.com

 

[Moody]

Moody, you will love CDC. Here is the name and number of the guide I used. Ronnie is Dine and grow up in the canyon, moved away and came back. Her mother is a weaver so if you ever thought about a Dina rug. She is the one to talk to.

Ronnie Yoe
Home: 928-781-6850
Cell: 505-409-0193
Email: Veronica_byoe@yahoo.com

Thanks for the input. It is only 2 months away!

 

[DakarTJ]

Thanks for the input. It is only 2 months away!

Book your guide soon.

 

[goodtimes]

You can get guides at the visitor center...$15 per hour, typical tour is 4 hours. There were several guides waiting around when I was there in March 2 years ago.


Dave Wilson was the guide I hired. Great guy. I hear good things about his daughter's guiding skills too....

Really cool place.

 

[MHead]

Book your guide soon.

I and 3 friends are planning a CDC trip in late March '08 or early April '08 in our Jeep (http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4802). We'd like to camp in the canyon.

Can we book guides in advance?
What about camping (not at NPS site!) - how do we get premission, etc?

Our Jeep will be full of people. There may be another vehicle, also possibly full. If the guide rides along, and there's no place to ride, what happens? Are there group tours?

We'd really like to go down into the canyon so any info on planning will be really helpfull. Thanks!

Our exact dates aren't really clear but will become so as March approaches. Maybe we could meet up?

Plans after CDC are to travel thru SouthEast AZ down to I-10 and then back to SD.

Mike

 

[articulate]

Can we book guides in advance?
What about camping (not at NPS site!) - how do we get premission, etc?

Our Jeep will be full of people. There may be another vehicle, also possibly full. If the guide rides along, and there's no place to ride, what happens? Are there group tours?

We'd really like to go down into the canyon so any info on planning will be really helpfull. Thanks!
Mike

Mike:
Contact a guide service. Leon Skyhorse Thomas comes recommended by me:
http://www.canyondechellytours.com/

They will do overnight camping trips in the canyon, and your other questions will be best answered by them. Check 'em out.

 

[MHead]

Mike:
Contact a guide service. Leon Skyhorse Thomas comes recommended by me:
http://www.canyondechellytours.com/

They will do overnight camping trips in the canyon, and your other questions will be best answered by them. Check 'em out.

Will do. That was quick! Thanks!

 

[Moody]

Mike...it would be lots of fun to meet up. We -may- shoot over to Mesa Verde at one point, but the plan as I posted earlier is looking like how it will come together.
Shoot me a pm for my # if you want to chat about it...

 

[MHead]

Mike...it would be lots of fun to meet up. We -may- shoot over to Mesa Verde at one point, but the plan as I posted earlier is looking like how it will come together.
Shoot me a pm for my # if you want to chat about it...

My dates are vauge right now, last week in March thru the first two weeks in April. I'll have one week in this span and am coming in from San Diego via Sedona. When the time gets closer I'll know more. But a group would be fun! Maybe it will all work out.

Mike

 

[alia176]

Umm, subscribing...may be able to hook up....:jumping:

 

[Moody]

Umm, subscribing...may be able to hook up....:jumping:

Very cool... Maybe my pops can see what I have been explaining to him for weeks now... (The Kamparoo)

 

[Alex]

I am leaning towards coming down through Moab, and driving 191 to Natural Bridges, Valley of the Gods, Goosenecks, the 20th and 21st, and then hitting deChelly last before making the trip home through Monument Valley/Lake Powell. Ultimately, we will drive home on I-15 back to SLC, making a big loop.

Hwy 95 will take you right past Arch Canyon... home to many indian ruins, a perennial stream, soaring sandstone walls and pondorosa pines.

Really cool campsite at the end, one of my favorites anywhere...

This will probably be the last chance you get to drive up there. The Monticello office of the BLM has a new Resource Management Plan in the works, the most likely outcome would involve closing the upper half of the canyon and requiring permits for the lower half.

Read about it here...
http://www.rockymountainextreme.com/showthread.php?t=50517

BTW, you have until February 8 to write a letter to the BLM about it!

 

[nwoods]

My dates are vauge right now, last week in March thru the first two weeks in April. I'll have one week in this span and am coming in from San Diego via Sedona. When the time gets closer I'll know more. But a group would be fun! Maybe it will all work out.

Mike

I'm heading there with my family for a trip through the last week of March. I would love to join up with another truck.

I showed my wife the pictures posted by Alex, and she said "AWESOME", so we are IN.

For me, this is exactly the kind of thing I am looking forward on this trip:

 

[alia176]

I'm heading there with my family for a trip through the last week of March. I would love to join up with another truck.

I showed my wife the pictures posted by Alex, and she said "AWESOME", so we are IN.

For me, this is exactly the kind of thing I am looking forward on this trip:

This picture is NOT in C de C, correct?

 

[MHead]

At the risk of speaking for Alex, I think his pictures come from Arch Canyon. Arch Canyon is in Southern Eastern Utah on Comb Wash, about 1/2 way between Blanding and Natural Bridges National Monument off Highway 95.

Drat! I camped at Comb wash on the south of 95 back in April and didn't know Arch Canyon was there. Oh well, good excuse to go back. It would be nice if it can still be accessed by vehicle.