Mammoth Lakes in the snow
2. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
First snow 2 days ago, yesterday it came down to the higher valleys. It was a cold night in the camper, first time I turned the heat on. But the scenery in Mammoth Lakes, California’s largest skiLue lisää
Into the Great Basin
3. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
It was time to do the laundry today. I then visited an old train station Museum in the goldfields before leaving the Sierra Nevada region and heading east: over the White Mountains, where I took aLue lisää
Goldfields, Nevada - I‘m in love
4. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
I stopped here yesterday evening, intending to visit the International Car Forest, but by the time I got here at the sun was already gone. So I spent the night, and what a luck! I totally fell in loveLue lisää
Aliens invading!
4. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I cross Nevada on the Extraterrestrial Highway after another Mining Town, Tonopah, where you can visit the actual mine sites
Cathedral Gorge State Park
5. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
My first taste of the Red Rock Southwest - incredible formations of clay created by water. The area is a large valley bordered by clay walls that contain many slot canyons- see images. The walls areLue lisää
From Nevada to Utah
5. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
My last stop in Nevada was Echo Lake State Park. 2 hours driving later I was in Utah, much lower and much hotter. No more freezing in the camper! A quick look at Snow Canyon before proceeding to QuailLue lisää
Zion NP
6. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
I spent two days in Zion, biking into the canyon with the unbelievable mountains to the left, and to the right. Second day I hiked up to scouts overlook, 305 vertical meters on 2 km hike. Very amazingLue lisää
Bryce Canyon NP
8. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
I thought Zion was unbelievable , Bryce Canyon is even more unbelievable. It is so large, you go 50 steps into any direction and the perspective complete the changes, no matter if you’re on the rimLue lisää
Red Canyon
9. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
I drive down to the far reaches of Bryce Canyon. After really good Pizza at the lodge, I then backtrack a short distance to Red Canyon, similar yet different. You will be seeing a lot of images of redLue lisää
Kodachrome Basin State Park
10. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Best campground I’ve been at in a long time, it’s a day to relax, and do the laundry again. The campground situated right in the basin with great views all around.
Rocks in many forms and colors
11. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
After spending the morning in Kodachrome, biking the Panorama Trail, a short drive brings me to the Petrified Forest State Park in Escalante. Incredible, what kinds of colors the minerals created onLue lisää
From Escalante River to Torrey
12. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
This morning was mainly about driving, but through absolutely fantastic landscapes. Next to continuing on Scenic Route 12, I drove 20 km down the Burr Trail Road that leads deep into the wirelessLue lisää
Capitol Reef NP Day 1
12. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
This national park was named after a long and forbidding mountain range, that rose before early explorers, like a reef from the ocean floor. To me, it presented itself as a long row of red cliffs fromLue lisää
Capitol Reef NP Day 2
13. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Down the scenic drive, hiking up to Cassidy Arch and through Capitol Gorge. And I had the best fruit pie ever - there are historical Mormon orchards still in the park
Little Wild Horse Canyon
14. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
I didn’t know what there was to do in Little Wild Horse State Park when I stopped there on the way to Goblin Valley. Well, a slot canyon, and a great one! The loop hike of 13 km went down a secondLue lisää
Goblin Valley State Park
14. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
It‘s called Goblin Valley because… well, see for yourself!
Arches National Park
15. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
More red rocks - famous for forming arches this time. The rock erodes from walls into „fins“, then arches or columns etc. The hike through Devil‘s Garden required climbing up and down fins orLue lisää
More Arches NP
16. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Another half day in Arches to see the remaining arches, then I need to shop, shower and hit the road to Colorado
Mesa Verde NP
18. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I’m in Colorado, at the UNESCO wold heritage site preserving the largest concentration of houses of the Ancestral Pueblo people, ancestors of many South-Western indigenous peoples. Settled fromLue lisää
Cliff Palace & Durango
19. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After a guided tour to the famous Cliff Palace in Mess Verde in the morning, I drive through the beautiful landscape to Durango, the largest town in south west Colorado. Very nice place, niceLue lisää
Colorful Colorado
20. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
This area is famous for the fall colors. I am a bit past the peak, but it’s still absolutely glorious. Add the mountains and colorful rocks and you have a picture perfect landscape.
San Juan Skyway
21. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Gold- and silver mining towns of old now mine tourist dollars with winter ski slopes and ice climbing, and summer off-road/hiking/biking tourism. Images from Silverton and Ouray
Hidden splendor
22. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
I say goodbye to the Alpine areas of Colorado after a very coordinated close to the town of Telluride, and drive the “Unaweep Tabeguache Scenic & Historic Byway” aka Rt 141. A very little known,Lue lisää
Colorado National Monument
23. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat
The mighty Colorado River and its tributaries have carved these amazing canyons. Fantastic looks from above down into the river valley and the cities of Fruita and Grand Junction. The desert bighornLue lisää
Lost corner of Utah
23. lokakuuta 2023, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
I follow the Colorado river, great creator of canyons. On a short section with a very bad road, crossing from the interstate to the river canyon, I stumble upon the most forgotten almost-ghost town ofLue lisää