Capitol Reef NP (Waterpocket Fold)

I don’t think I’ve visited Capitol Reef National Park before. It is stunningly beautiful. I prefer to call it by the geologic feature that formed it - the Waterpocket Fold. The fold was a 100-mile-long uplift running north-south. Early pioneers found it impassible - like a reef in the ocean. Some of...

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Bebop Reviews Goblins and Wild Horses

I liked our campsite at the Colorado River. No one was there, so I could just run free without a harness or leash. It was a little sparse in the lizard department, so it was not quite perfect. Also, the river was thick with silt - not very tasty. We departed and drove toward Goblin Valley State Park....

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Bears Ears and Beyond

After we departed Monument Valley, we drove north into the Bears Ears National Monument. It was in the news a few years ago when an idiot president de-monumented most of the area. Fortunately, the current president restored the monument status. The name comes from two buttes that can be seen for many...

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Canyon de Chelly and Spider Woman

I've travelled to many places in my almost 62 trips around the sun, but I've never been to Tseyi' (commonly called Canyon de Chelly) in NE Arizona. This canyon has been continuously occupied for about 5,000 years. The Anasazi were here from 2500 B.C. to 1300 A.D. The Hopi were here from 1300 to 1600...

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Bebop Reviews Petrified Forest National Park

There aren't many sticks to chew on in the desert, but we stopped at a place that advertised itself a forest - a Petrified Forest. Petrified can mean scary, so I didn't know what to expect. I thought there would be plenty of sticks there. There were actually many big logs, but they were hard as a rock....

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And We're Off . . .

Those that know us might say "they are off, alright," but we are off on another adventure. This trip was originally planned for a return to hike Havasu Falls. We hiked it in 2018, and I loved it so much I wanted to go back. I applied in Jan 2021 for an Oct 2021 hike and got a spot. COVID kept things...

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