Trips
Devil's Canyon Elementary School Trip
Fruita, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 1.5 miles (2.0 miles away)
Hiking | 1.5 miles (2.0 miles away)
Field trip to learn more about our backyard at Devil's Canyon near the Colorado National Monument in Fruita, Colorado. Trip included several stations covering rock ripples, birds, Leave no Trace, Tamarisk, Juniper and Pinon Trees, Cottonwoods, cryptobiotic soil, and others. The trails are all fairly level. A great place to take the family for a picnic or day hike.
Independence Monument Hike 11/25/12
Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 3.9 miles (3.8 miles away)
Hiking | 3.9 miles (3.8 miles away)
Beautiful November day
Independence Monument at Colorado National Monument
Rhone, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 5.0 miles (3.8 miles away)
Hiking | 5.0 miles (3.8 miles away)
A short hike on a warm and tired day to gaze off into the possibilities of future hikes...
Colorado National Monument - Ute Canyon Trail
Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 5.8 miles (8.5 miles away)
Hiking | 5.8 miles (8.5 miles away)
Our first hike in Colorado since returning to the US. A very nice hike almost completely downhill. Starts with a steep descent on switchbacks down the side of Ute Canyon, and proceeds along the creek bed.After cresting a small gorge, the trail continues along the flat canyon bottom into dryer territory. the trail stays in the canyons shadow well into the morning and then widens into the base igneous layer of rock.The...
Mesa view 4th grade class trip to devil's Canyon west of Grand Junction.
A great little hike in the Colorado National Monument, with an added loop that is not in the official trail.
Rattlesnake Arches via Pollock Bench Trail
Gilsonite, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 13.1 miles (2.7 miles away)
Hiking | 13.1 miles (2.7 miles away)
The slick rock under the Rainbow Bridge is extremely steep and requires climbing - not hiking - to get from the lower to the upper overlook. It is not part of the official trail - BLM strongly advises against taking it.
Colorado National Monument
Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
Hiking | 4.7 miles (3.8 miles away)
Hiking | 4.7 miles (3.8 miles away)
New hike with my friend Rob...nice December afternoon.
This is the real deal. Most mines one finds while hiking are dark pits, but this is a specacular house-sized inclusion of rose quartz within an inclusion of lava within the red sandstones characteristic of the Colorado National Monument. And within the quartz are sheets of mica, or at least what is left after the really good stuff was carved out. Go see it and take your camera.
Took the family down for the day. Had a great time but didn't back enough water for all of them.
