Hiking slot canyons in Escalante Grand Staircase

Our first order of business, after breakfast at our B&B, was to go to the National Monument visitor center and get directions to several of the popular slot canyons, including Peekaboo, Spooky, and Zebra. Peekaboo and Spooky were on my to do list. Web research before the trip had turned up these two canyons as […]

Bike riding the Burr Trail

Biking the Burr Trail

At breakfast we asked the B&B owner, host, and cook for a recommendation for a road bike ride. After some thought, he recommended the paved, canyon portion of the Burr Trail. This road runs from Boulder east to Notom-Bullfrog road. The eastern end is dirt with quite a few switchbacks, but […]

Travel to Escalante

This was a travel day, from Hurricane (our motel), through Springdale and Zion, up through Zion’s east entrance, to Bryce Canyon, and then on to Escalante.

Hoodoos at Red Canyon

We stopped first in Springdale for coffee. Our favorite coffee house across from Oscar’s Cafe was closed (Oscar’s, by the way, is a great place […]