Dead Horse Point, truly a sight to see...

The area surrounding Moab is chock full of things to see and do. From biking and hiking to off road jeeping and rafting it would take more than a single lifetime to do it all. Since life is short, the trick is to simply do as much as you can while you're visiting this rock we call Earth.

Yukon takes in the view

I think I may have been out to Dead Horse Point many years ago when Moab was still a sleepy, yet to be discovered, backwater town. While the town has undergone its fair share of change in the intervening years the spectacular vistas remain as breathtaking as the first time I saw them. In my last blog I had promised a short video featuring Dead Horse Point so here it is. Much of Utah, for better or worse depending on your perspective, remains a cell service/Wi-Fi desert so finding a place to load video has been tough.

Dead Horse Point is a high mesa and features a narrow outcropping where cowboys used to trap wild horses. Apparently they had some horses corralled and left them behind for some unknown reason. The name, Dead Horse Point, tells the rest of the story. Today there is a nice Visitors Center, two very nice campgrounds, and a network of hiking and mountain biking trails that meander the canyon rims taking you from one jaw-dropping vista to the next. As is typical in many places, early morning and early evening are perhaps the best times to take in the grandeur but really any time of day is fine. The Desert changes with the shifting light and clouds so nothing ever seems to look the same twice.

I'm not going to lie, when we were there it was still getting downright cold at night and we had a fair amount of rain, sometimes heavy. Such is the price of admission to some wonderful places. If you're like me and believe a cold, wet day in nature beats a warm, dry day in the office you would have loved the conditions. Not so much my darling wife, but that's another story...