Category Archives: Escalante

spontaneous win!

I wanted to get out backpacking this weekend and decided on a very remote hike out at the Grand Canyon. Called the rangers… roads were good, dogs were kosher… but all of a sudden, I changed my mind. Let’s go to the Escalante River! And off we went in the opposite direction… And what a...

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look ma, no snakes!

Haley’s nose behaved itself this weekend. We journeyed to Escalante for yet another snake-free weekend of camping and hiking. I’ll admit, I was nervous about the snakes, but I figured the chances of a bite happening again are so slim, I shouldn’t worry too much. That, and we had a vet along for the fun....

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Calf Creek

I finally got to see what everyone’s talking about. Escalante really does rule, hard. The first time I went there, the dog got bit by a rattlesnake as soon as we got out of the car, and we had to get right back in it and drive all the way back home. We also hadn’t...

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once bitten

Molly and I ventured to Escalante yesterday for another glorious weekend of camping and hiking. After three hours of driving through the middle of nowhere (the last 30 miles of which were on a horrid washboarded dirt road), we finally arrived at the trailhead for our first hike. We get out of the car, take...

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