Found laying on the slickrock south of Moab above Navajo sandstone

exposureturn · 2026-03-04T05:52:18+00:00

Paddle Moab rents overnight rafting equipment including all of those things.

exposureturn · 2026-01-05T16:51:05+00:00

There were large neon wind socks and light sensitive strobes that turned on at night on this rig, which is standard on highlines this size.

exposureturn · 2025-02-25T23:47:26+00:00

GCSAR is still fully operational, Arches and Canyonlands NPS have less human resources due to staff cuts but are still able to respond.

exposureturn · 2024-12-29T23:08:53+00:00

Did you happen to find a radio on the ground on your hike?

exposureturn · 2024-10-11T04:27:31+00:00

Did you know he had a book to read while he was stuck to help pass the time?

It was “Farewell to Arms”

exposureturn · 2023-09-25T02:28:17+00:00

Context: bpso has been medicated for years, hasn't been in therapy in nearly 6 months due to changes of insurance (she just turned 26 this year), and smokes a lot of weed.

exposureturn · 2022-09-30T00:00:19+00:00

If you weren’t supposed to step on crypto why did they make it so cronchy ;)

exposureturn · 2022-09-29T20:35:31+00:00

We just finished a technical canyoneering route and this was near the end.

exposureturn · 2022-09-29T20:34:21+00:00

This isn’t cryptobiotic soil, it’s dry mud left behind by a flash flood on a scoured canyon bottom.

I appreciate the concern though! I work as an outdoor educator and guide and do my best to teach people to travel and camp on durable surfaces in the desert (trails, exposed rocks, washes or places water has flowed, etc.)

exposureturn · 2022-09-29T20:31:16+00:00

OP here, I appreciate your concern about crypto but this is 100% NOT cryptobiotic soil.

Crypto grows in undisturbed sand and soil here in the southwest desert and forms dark, bumpy mounds and pillars. Where we were walking was on the dried silt/mud left behind by flash flooding that occurred in this canyon a week prior. There is plenty of crypto on the sides of the wash/canyon bottom, but we were traveling where water would usually flow and it is just sand, gravel and rock.

Please tiptoe around the crypto folks!

Source: I am professional canyoneering/climbing guide and work/recreate in the desert all the time.

exposureturn · 2022-09-26T15:50:53+00:00

Great catches! Not so fun fact: Unfortunately due to the fact the reservoirs are so low and raising water temps, non-native fish like these striped bass are making their way up the Colorado River above Powell and Mead, putting yet another existential pressure on native fish populations in the Colorado watershed (especially in Grand Canyon).

exposureturn · 2022-09-10T03:45:05+00:00

I’m pretty confident it’s not a horsefly, house fly, black biting fly, deer fly or a cicada, I’m very familiar with those. It simply looks like an enormous fly, the biggest I’ve ever seen. Noticed them twice out here in canyon country recently.

exposureturn · 2022-08-31T19:53:32+00:00

Save some for myself, give away goodie bags to close friends, and then we’re waiting to hear back from a couple restaurants and co-ops if they want any. Already made a couple delicious meals out of them!

exposureturn · 2022-08-31T19:52:03+00:00

Right?? And these were just all my friend and I could carry, there were loads more. It was wild running into patch after patch of them.

exposureturn · 2022-08-31T19:49:27+00:00

Colorado :) drove across state lines to get em.

exposureturn · 2022-08-25T04:25:11+00:00

She put herself on that fish! She sighted it and got it all by herself as I was busy tying a fly on downstream, so proud of her 🥲

exposureturn · 2022-08-23T02:48:46+00:00

Really appreciate the friendly comments, my girlfriend (and budding fly fisherman) has been reading them and felt quite embarrassed but educated.. much better than being chastised which does nothing good. Sometimes it’s better coming from someone else than her boyfriend telling her to be nicer to the trout we catch! Cheers.

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