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The Bear at Bird Ridge
I'd have thought i would have made a post about Bird Ridge many years ago. It's one of the first places most people end up finding out about when they move to Anchorage. I've been up there before, of...
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So Long, Alaska, And Thanks For All The Fish
The show is over. The stage is empty. There are no more stories to tell. I'm leaving Alaska. I'm already gone.It's been with a heavy heart that i've written these last several blogs. A few months ago,...
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My New Home
If you've watched enough David Attenborough documentaries you may have noticed that the most interesting places are in Transition Zones. The beach is the easiest transition zone to describe, the place...
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Winter Water in Zion
Before i decided to move to St. George i made several trips down here, to Grand Junction, SLC and Denver looking at other businesses. If i had time i tried to do something fun along the way. So this...
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Avalanche on Kolob
My friend Jeff helped me move from Alaska to Ivins. In early March it took us a week to drive a 21 foot U-haul and my 4Runner through Canada to Edmonton and then finally south through Montana and...
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Introduction to the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
The first truly new area i've discovered since moving to Utah has the long unexciting name of the "Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness." Southwest of Ivins are some plain looking mountains typical of what...
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Hell Hole Canyon, Utah
I've noticed that the American West was re-settled and renamed by people with very limited educations/vocabularies. Many of them seem to have only ever read one book, and so the names are repeated all...
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Hellhole Canyon, California
In June i went to my friend Jimmy Gordon's birthday party in Borrego Springs, California. If there's anything i can't stand missing, it's a party. Just ask anyone. So i grabbed Maree and we immediately...
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Valley of Fire
It's hard to fly out of St. George so while i was trying to make arrangements to move there i kept flying into Las Vegas and driving to St. George. Sometimes the checkout time between by hotel and...
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Haunted Houses and Ghost Towns of 2016
Although many places in Utah are unrecognizable from the way they were in the 1990's, some places look exactly the same. Escalante is one of those places. If anything, it seems to be possibly smaller...
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Zions Wild Highlands and High Wildlands
I'm a bit late on this post because i have started a new blog. The url is very similar but because Google has failed to update blogger in a way that would allow me to post larger pictures, i am trying...
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Owl Canyon
During the summer and spring i kept going up into the Beaver Dam Mountains to get a slight relief from the heat. It’s usually at least 10 degrees cooler up there and the evening shade starts earlier on...
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Black Rock, Arizona
I was unemployed for a year. But i was generally busy that entire time looking for a new business to be involved in and deciding on a place to live. Being unemployed for that long can teach you a thing...
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A Zion White Christmas
When i moved here everyone constantly talked about how it never snows so i thought it was pretty funny that my first Christmas was a white one. On Christmas day i was pretty sick but i drove over the...
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Double Arch Alcove
A few months ago i posted about hiking with my friend Jeff up the South Fork of Taylor Creek on an unmaintained trail in Zion’s Kolob Canyons. That was in March of 2016, when there was still quite a...
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From One Lake City to Another
Did you know there is an Ouray, Utah just a few hours drive from Ouray, Colorado? How do you even come up with a name like Ouray, and how is an American supposed to know how to pronounce that? I would...
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The Zen Trail
Above Santa Clara is a large slope of uplifted rock about 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. The uplift ends abruptly in high cliffs that are popular for rock climbing at some points. There are mountain...
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Yellow Knolls
Yellow Knolls is an easy to get to, short trail north of downtown St. George. It's part of a larger trail network in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. The trail is around 2-4 miles in length and has...
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The Vortex
I have a lot of my plate right now and as a result i keep ignoring my blog. It's not that i haven't been doing anything, in fact, i'm a year behind in some cases. For now here's a short hike i did one...
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My Prints and Portfolio Are Now Available
I'd like to announce my new website: AdamElliottPhotography.comAtom's Picture Blog has been running for over 10 years now, i think. There are pictures on this blog that i would have a hard time finding...
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Kanarra Creek
Kanarra Creek is one of those places i've meant to go for many years but was always turned off by the crowds and not knowing exactly how it works to get there. There's a fee too, so that was also a...
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Pine Peak Valley
Zion is crowded these days. It's so crowded, in fact, that it can take me two hours to get into the Eastern portion of the park. Once i arrive there is often no parking anywhere. So, last summer I...
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Huntress Canyon (Diana's Throne)
I had to opportunity to go on an guided canyoneering trip to Huntress Canyon, in Utah. Part of my job for the last year has been active networking. One of the groups I belong to is called Corporate...
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The Virgin River Gorge
One of my fun places to go and get away from the crowds of late has been the often neglected Virgin River Gorge in Northwest Arizona. There are no official trails there so once you leave the roadside...
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Walter's Wiggles
There's a famous section of the Angel's Landing Trail called Walter's Wiggles. Last winter I was able to view it from an unusual location. It was mid December and there was a warm spell between snow...
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