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Share The day in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park started out early.  The usual sun blazing through the tent in the morning was instead represented by rain showering down on the tent this morning.  It never really matters too much if it rains while camping so long as it doesn’t soak through the [...]

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Share While there was no rain there was a fair amount of wind in the campground in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.  The feet finally stopped throbbing (from continuous 10+ mile hikes) around 3am or 4am and wind contributed to the difficulty of sleeping last night.  In the morning the skies were a [...]

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Share The Peekaboo Spring Hike in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park is one of many strenuous and spectacular long day hikes in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.  There are a couple ways to get to Peekaboo Spring in Canyonlands.  This review and the associated photos will cover the hike from the [...]

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Share After the Canon D7 died yesterday on the way back from the Confluence Overlook hike, the first priority of the day would be to see if it was possible to ship the dead camera back to Amazon and get a new one shipped to the visitor center in the Needles District at Canyonlands National [...]

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Share After the long rather strenuous hike up to Druid Arch yesterday the body was a little worn out from not having hiked anything that long or strenuous for a while.  It looked like rain might be in the forecast so instead of getting up early and going out to get wet or not so [...]

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Share The Druid Arch Hike in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park is one of the more strenuous hike in the Needles District.  The vertical rise is somewhere around 800 feet and the hike itself covers about 10.5 miles round trip.  The hiking trail follows a canyon for much of the way, begins at [...]

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Share Knock, knock, knock at about 7am.  What is that, where am I, who is that at the door er the window?  Well it was a park ranger from the Needles District at Canyonlands National Park!  After shooting pictures of Delicate Arch at Arches National Park until sunset and beyond last night until around 11pm, [...]

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Share After securing two more days at the Lazy Lizard Hostel in Moab, Utah there was now time to head to the Needles Section of Canyonlands National Park.  It would be a 75-mile drive each way to what was a rather unknown part of the Canyonlands National Park.  Nobody ever mentioned the Needles Section of [...]

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Share Day #2 at the Island In The Sky Section of Canyonlands National Park started out once again at the Lazy Lizard Hostel.  Today started earlier than most due to a desire to get to Canyonlands in order to have good light for photographing the canyons to the west of the Island In the Sky [...]

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Share After four days at Arches National Park it was time to switch gears and take the drive up to the Island In The Sky at Canyonlands National Park.  Canyonlands is as the name would imply full of Canyons.  It was about a 40-mile drive from the Lazy Lizard Hostel in Moab that has been [...]

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