Red Rocks Camping in Utah - Explore - Cook - Camp - My Life

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I love camping the red rocks of the desert in my home state of Utah. Follow me as I explore the area. There is beauty in the barrenness. I did some exploring and saw some beautiful scenery. I cooked a delicious roast on the coals. My Poncho Shelter System on this trip was used to provide a very comfortable sleep. I didn't really need it but I did use the PD Shelter over the fire, it provided extra comfort at night around the fire. The desert can be both very hot and a few hours later cold, it is a place of extremes. Check out our Ponchos, Osni Cloaks, Blankets, Tarps, Liners, etc on our website HTTP://wildernessinnovation.com Thank you !!

Tags: Utah,red rocks,san rafael swell,buckhorn draw,bushcraft,woodsman,hiking,desert,camping,outdoors,poncho,shelter,hammock

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I'm shaving down a few toothpick type things here because on my Johnsonville I'm gonna wrap bacon around it what do you think about that wrap your son around here

okay

this is gonna taste so good I can't hardly stand to wait any longer I said I'm gonna cook this thing up right I'm telling you what his dog is ready I don't want to eat I don't want to eat the pins the toothpicks though pull all those out of there I'm even gonna add some sauerkraut not good stuff I kept a little bit or slept a little bit away from camp and it man it got windy last night it was I'm sure 30 40 mile an hour winds or something it was really pushing hard on the hammock so and I heard some commotion up at camp but I thought maybe some animals in here rummaging around or whatever but I can I can see some stuff happened well let's go take a look so anyway last night when I went to bed it was it was pretty calm hardly any wind at all but I'd left my PT shelter up I really hadn't anchored it down much at all but looks like some of my stuff came undone I think that's weird look it wrapped itself around that log four times yeah and and it knocked some of the wood around that 64-ounce Klean Kanteen bottle is not there when I went to bed knocked over my tripod my chair knocked over all this stuff over here then underneath here it knocked down the cooking irons the iron tripod and everything and the road the other rope over there is wrapped around that other rock so anyway it must have been a windy night like it's just kind of funny I've been all over the place today it's about noon right now and I'm just having breakfast and I hiked over not those hills over there I hike back up over this canyon here today and so now I'm hungry now I need to now I need to do something here let it cooked me a roast I think while I while I'm up there's a kind of a ridge up here a little area I want to see if I can get up to you so I have my breakfast brunch lunch whatever it is I'm going to cook it on the Coleman stove well there's my bacon getting started now one of the nice things about these areas of sandstone is you can often make some tables like this one and then and the carrots I don't have to slice - I just bought baby carrots now this has been doing while I've been been getting my stuff ready for my roast I can't ever do one thing it's there I can't ever just stick to one thing you know I mean well there's some nice bacon ready to go for breakfast and well I cook this if I don't eat it all I just save it and make something else later in the day with it got my eggs going I'm gonna scramble those and then get this dumped out and I'm gonna start some french toast I just throw a few pinches in there another pinch over my shoulder and add fresh ground pepper oh yeah that's gonna be really nice this breads as thick as my finger this is some old farm bread it's actually a couple weeks old actually a couple weeks old should be perfect for this well there's my breakfast some bacon egg nice butter and french toast I'm gonna pour me some syrup on there and enjoy my breakfast here I'll tell you what I got some nice scenery and I'm back here in all these red rocks and stuff am i hiking up in those right after breakfast here and I am pretty excited about it I love camping out here man it is awesome one of the real nice things about camping this time of the ears no flies oh it's wonderful

here we go a couple of pounds of rump roast here and there I dumped a little bit of bacon grease on the very bottom just I don't know why just for flavor I think got some water in the bottom salt and peppered I'll be gone about three hours all right there we go into the cold all right it's all covered up and coals and everything I'll be gone for 3-4 hours whatever something like that and when we get back it should be good to go yeah that's my sleeping setup and I used my my footie thing again that was so nice credible the other thing I'm experimenting with as these are called runners and the climbers use them and stuff this is a 24 inch which I like for the HD ponchos the 10 inch works good for the others and they're made out of Dyneema they'll hold five thousand pounds plenty plenty sturdy using my Whoopie sling to hang from the tree and that's my little setup right there it's pretty darn nice now you'd want to be careful I'll be careful going up through here rainy weather this is a wash right here I'm on to get up on that ledge up there where the trees are not climb with ropes and stuff there's only one way I can see it's up a rockfall at the end of this canyon so hopefully I can make it up that rock far well this is what the trail is like the whole bottom of the canyon is just rocks rock fall well that's I'm head at the end of the canyon that rock fall right there see if I can get up there I I may not be able to I don't know I think it's steeper than it looks and it looks to me like it's still awfully steep well here's where the trail goes a rugged little spot through here well that's where I've been coming from don't throw that rock jumbling out the mouth of the canyon there well here's the boulders big as a house bottom of the rock fall I'm glad to see this stretch of sandstone right here that should get me past a lot of those cobbles more quickly and on up into there so yeah whining my way up this little chute here and got to get up this little section right here very very loose Rock well those trees are right here on top that's the plateau I want to get to connect over here it's a lot of cliffs and stuff I don't know it looks like there might be one or two ledges that go around but I'll have to look at them see if I they look doable and nonetheless it is quite the country I did take a spill down there on the coming up that shoot my foothold gave way and everything just fortunately I get it and go too far yeah but it banged up a little bit but I'm okay I'm a little worried about going back down cuz going back down is always harder than coming up well I got some altitude now I'm above that little plateau right there and I think I can see a thread across on this ledge just above me I might be able to get across onto that well I am I made it over and I put some flagging in this tree right here because I that's the only place that me myself personally that I could get back across that and it'd be easier to look for that tape and get across and the hunting again so now down here there's that plateau that I was looking at from my camp I hope to get down here till I can look back at where my camp is so now I got a hunt for a way down off of this all right I can see that flag on that tree and then up on that ledge up there I can see the next one so when you're flagging you really want to be able to see the next one from where you're at so I'll show you the look down I came up all this end up right down there through the bottom of that man that is a beautiful there's a beautiful sight down through there down the bottom that valley and it's just stunning up here just back from the bottom of that cliff right there's my truck the PD shelter I can barely see right there and hopefully my dinner is cooking and it's just beautiful so glad I came up here well now I might be able to see a little better I got a little bit of the Sun out ahead of the lens here camp down there and the valley winding on down through there man it is just stunningly beautiful I think then back up that ways the rock fall I went up that burger was so steep man that's spooky I hate to think that I got to go back down it again general of big boulders ours started that rock fall they came all the way up and that's all vertical up to clear up there I had to go higher than where I'm at and come across and then out onto this plateau and then from this plateau here I'm kind of worked splits goes down into there and over there is where the Indian petroglyphs are along that wall a couple hundred feet long of them and nice out to be there I'm not gonna I'm gonna go out here on the edge there we are right there

well I have got to get a move on here because I've only got 45 minutes till the Sun Goes Down over the mountain in the West and I have got to I've got to get off of here and down to that Boulder falling off yeah I got I got cuts all over my body hell over my arms underneath my clothes jagged rocks sharp junipers and stuff like that brush it was quite the process I'm starved now I hope dinner's done let's uncover they better put a leather glove on I don't want to take that lid off long as there's any sand all right see what looks like here look at that Tay toes are nice and nicely done looks like the roast is done the juices are still boiling in the bottom there I believe we got us a winner here well there we go see what that that meat is tender tender look at juicy look at that juice just sitting on there oh my gosh so tender and juicy mmm not a nice I have to do on a hike more often I come back to this hmm very very good

carrots are perfect mmm okay so good look at that potato nicely browned nicely brown from the edge of the pan hmm good camp cooking man it's just too good who can stand it man you

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