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Have a great Independence Day! I know that I will

Yeah, I ended up spending some more time on the Uncompahgre Plateau today since I wanted to stick close to home.

I started out on Delta and made my way to Escalante Canyon on the Escalante Rim trail. From there I took the Dry Mesa trail up onto the Uncompahgre. When I reached Divide Road my plans were to explore some spur trails off of the main road, but it seems there has been a lot of rain up on the plateau lately because all of the trails were very muddy and slick. I decided to skip the exploring until it dries out up there again (maybe in the fall). On my way back home I explored a few short spurs along Highway 141 that went off towards East Creek.

Some photos from the day…

Grand Mesa in the background on the Escalante Rim trail

Overlook of Dry Creek Escalante Fork

Headed down to Escalante Canyon

Made it to the Dry Mesa trail

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Just a couple pictures to hold you over until I have a change to go through all the photos I took today on our Canyon Rims Overlooks day trip

I have wanted one of these for a long time, and there is currently a great deal going on where you can get a free SPOT messenger if you purchase one year of service (which you would need anyways).

I ordered mine today and it’s supposed to be here Wednesday. I’ll post an update when it arrives. I figure that this device is a great investment considering I spent a lot of time exploring in my Jeep alone.

It’s going to take me a little bit to go through my pictures from this weekend and post up a trip report, so I’ll go ahead and post a few pictures from Arches and Canyonlands National Park

A little tradition I have over on Jeepin.com is that I post a ‘Year in Review’ thread with a lot of pictures from all of my adventures throughout the year. This year is the 4th that I have made the post.

If you are interested in checking it out, follow this link.

There are links to the previous 3 years in that thread.

Well, we got our first snow down here in the Grand Valley tonight. Actually, it’s still snowing.

Here’s a quick picture I snapped