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Category: Canyoneering

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Matt Holmes June 27, 2021

Floating the Green River in 100+ degrees

Last week (June 10, 2021), we drove to Utah to float the Green River that runs through Canyonlands National Park, and eventually meets up with the Colorado River. We met up with some old friends from San Francisco – Scott and Kristen – who we haven’t seen in ten years.

Matt Holmes June 02, 2021

Canyoneering getaway (matt only, sans family)

Karen held down the fort while I ran away to Utah to hang out with friends for a classic canyoneering trip. We’ve done it with the kids also, but it was nice to have an adults trip. Jon and I were trying to count how many canyons we’ve done to

Matt Holmes July 27, 2020

Utah Spring 2020

This past May we drove to Utah to meet up with Jon and Sarah and their 6-month old, Mason, for his first ever camping trip. It ended up being a lazy car camping trip, without any of the usual canyoneering adventures. The Holmes’s hit up Muley point again on the

Matt Holmes September 30, 2019

Canyoneering with Boys (lots of boys)

We made it back to Utah again this season! And we convinced another boy family to join us! (heh heh heh) Not sure that they really knew what they were signing up for… But all’s well that end’s well, and this was a spectacularly successful trip. Between the four of

Matt Holmes July 15, 2018

Canyoneering with Kids

On our recent Utah roadtrip, we took the boys up a portion of three separate slot canyons: Fry (Frylette), Leprechaun, and Little Wild Horse. (I’m just getting around to putting up some details about the activities from that trip).  The boys were ecstatic about the actual canyon bits, and grumbly

We’re a homeschooling family in Los Alamos, New Mexico, hoping to give our boys a love for the great outdoors and provide them with skills they’ll enjoy for life. When it comes to camping, we are experts at getting off the beaten path, away from crowded campgrounds.  And adventuring to us can be as simple as checking out a local park or as ambitious as hiking a Colorado 14’er.

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