A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
Mike and I dithered a little bit about doing more in Capitol Reef. We had loved the water hike, but were feeling a little lazy, so enjoyed some quiet time at our campsite and then started to make our way toward Bryce Canyon. Lou’s brilliant idea for the Sulphur Creek hike had come from Alltrails,…
We found a lovely place to camp just west of Capitol Reef, about ten minutes from our hike the next morning. We drove through Capitol Reef on our way to our site and again loved the changes in scenery along the way. We passed orchards near Fruita and worked our way back up a mountain…
When we were heading into Utah, my friend Tina let us know that her family would probably be passing through for a hike as they headed out to Oregon. They would be in the Capitol Reef National Park for one morning for one hike. Would we want to meet them? After we wasted some days…
We decided to keep heading south into Utah, knowing that there was a lot that we wanted to explore there. Trying to get truly out of the smoke meant that we had some long days of driving, but we tried to find some interesting things to do along the way as we headed toward some…
After leaving Fantasy Canyon (and having to go back for a forgotten water bottle), we had a long drive to get to our stop just north of Arches National Park. We headed across more mountains, into Colorado for a bit and then back into Utah. We were driving on pretty desolate roads some of the…
Looking at air quality maps, we decided that we would head down into Utah to hopefully see the sun again and get into air that made us actually want to be active again. We made it down to McCammon Idaho and found our first BLM land to camp on. We had watched the landscape change…
We are always on the lookout for good places to paddle – relatively mild water and interesting things to see which usually means bodies of water that aren’t too big. We settled into the Clark Fork Drift Yard because it was at the mouth of the Clark Fork River where it came into Lake Pend…
After leaving Kalipsell, we headed south to Missoula where we were able to spend some time with my sister-in-law’s family. Barb and Mike welcomed us into their home, treating us to several hot showers, a comfy bed, and delicious meals galore! We used them as another place to which we had mail sent and again…
We planned to visit my cousin Jenn and her husband James when we went to Glacier, hoping to catch up and spend some time with them as well as take advantage of them a little, mainly their large driveway for parking the trailer for a bit and their brains for what we should explore while…
We had gotten a taste of Jewel Basin when Jenn took us on our first hike in Montana and we wanted to spend some more time exploring it. We got our backpacks ready for a couple of nights in the basin and drove up to Camp Misery to set off. Last time we headed south…