Author Archives: Trail Rocker

Yesterday our good friends Linda and Dale took Barbara and I for a drive to visit the Mammoth Cave in Idaho. This actually isn’t a cave at all. It’s actually a lava tube. Well me being a geologist I’m always interested in caves, lava tubes, anything thing that is geology related. Now most people believeContinue reading “Mammoth Cave, Idaho”

Barbara and I stayed at the Welcome Station RV Park, just west of Wells, Nevada last week. It is a nice park that Barbara and I call an oasis in the desert. Trout Creek comes off of the Humboldt Mountains, just to the south, splits and goes around the RV park on each side andContinue reading “The Welcome Station”

About two months ago I purchase a star tracker that I could attach to my camera tripod so that I could take photos of the night sky. Well everywhere we have been since that time it has been windy, cloudy, a full moon or just too much light pollution. Well last night I got myContinue reading “Star Gazing”

Over the Memorial Day weekend Barbara and I stayed at an RV park on the Utah/Nevada border, near Great Basin National Park (NP). While we were there it was either windy or raining most of the time. On Monday, Memorial Day, the weather was good so we drove over to Great Basin NP to theContinue reading “On The Border”

This past Thursday Barbara and I visited Capital Reef National Park (NP). Now Capital Reef NP is not one of those places where you can just drive paved roads to see. If you want to see things here you have to either get off-road or go hiking. Since our truck has four wheel drive weContinue reading “Capital Reef National Park”

Yesterday Barbara and I traveled west to the town of Loa, Utah. Along the way I took a few photos of the wonderful geology on display along the freeway. Today we took a short drive to check out the Loa countryside. Loa is a small farming town that I could walk from end to endContinue reading “Loa, Utah”

Today Barbara and I headed southeast to the Dead Horse Point State Park on the Colorado River. As the legend goes cowboys use to catch wild mustangs that roamed this area and corral them here on the shore of the river. They would take the horses they wanted and let the rest die of dehydrationContinue reading “Dead Horse Point State Park”

This morning Barbara and I visited the nearby John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River, Utah. For those of you who don’t know who Mr. Powell was, he was the first white explorer to explore the Grand Canyon. During his exploration of the area he named most of the canyons and some of the rapidsContinue reading “John Wesley Powell Museum”

Last week, while staying in Kanab Utah, Barbara and I visited the Grand Staircase – Escalante, National Monument. This park, as far as we could see, is more impressive from a distance. While driving north on highway 89A from the north rim of the Grand Canyon you can see the entire staircase laid out inContinue reading “Grand Staircase – Escalante, National Monument”

As most of you know, this past Sunday evening there was a lunar eclipse. I set up my camera to take photos, but mother nature had other ideas. I got photos of the eclipse, but just before it was to go full clouds moved in and blocked the moon from my view until I hadContinue reading “Lunar Eclipse”