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MCKAY'S TRAVEL, OUTDOORS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Travel Blog
This is a good way for me to track and remember what I've done lately and in the past. A form of journaling. I have several reasons I blog, when I travel, when I spend time outdoors, when I enjoy any kind of experience and also when I eat/try new food.. Here are all of those posts. I usually post every month on average.
14ers n Stuff, CO Springs
Take away from this trip, high elevation and thin air does NOT play around. Started the weekend with a quick and easy 6 mile hike but...
Mckay Jensen
Jun 30, 20231 min read
Flaming Gorge 2023
What started out as a fishing trip turned quickly turned into a casting trip. The Green River was gorgeous but the fish were not biting...
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Jun 21, 20231 min read
Arches National Park
Spent the weekend doing plenty of walking around red rocks and looking at bunches of rock arches. We spent Friday and Saturday nights in...
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May 27, 20231 min read
Kaihalulu Red Sand Beach
This may have been my favorite place from the entire trip to Maui, the red sand against the turquoise water was incredible, we got lucky...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
Road to Hana Waterfalls
The road to Hana is a long stretch of road along the coast, with hundreds of tight corners and nearly as many waterfalls. One of the...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
Pīpīwai Trail in Haleakala
Even though we got skunked on the upper half of the national park and got completely rained out and were not able to see anything on the...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
Bamboo Forest Trail
One of the coolest trails I have ever hiked, out of this world. Started off with a really dense and cool bamboo forest and moved into a...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
Waianapanapa State Park
The black sand beach was incredible, worth the hassle of getting permits and planning it all out. The black sand was extremely unique and...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
I Love Big Tetons
Did a 8.5 mile, 3000 ft elevation gain hike to an alpine lake in the Grand Tetons National Park. It was a very hard but very worth it...
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Oct 30, 20221 min read
Jackson Hole
Spent the day around Jackson Hole, tried some bison burgers and tasty sweets. Then we got the chance to go white water rafting. It was...
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Oct 30, 20221 min read
Pole Creek Caves
Did a little bit of spelunking in pole creek caves. They were extremely cool and there were so many small cavers as well as large open...
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Oct 30, 20221 min read
Uinta Canyon Easter Year One
Hopefully the first of many easter campouts up the Uinta Canyon. Did some really cool river fishing and caught some pretty Brook Trout. Did some drone flying and a cold plunge in the river. Pepsi even had the chance to go on her first campout.
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Oct 29, 20221 min read
Cheslatta Falls
What a cool place, these falls are very powerful and extremely beautiful. Someone we passed on the trail was surprised we wouldn't be...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Silver Lake Campout
Took the weekend to go up. to silver lake and camp, the road in was very rough but gladly we had the explorer to get us there. Had the...
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Oct 26, 20221 min read
Bryce Canyon in a day.
Spent a full day at Bryce Canyon National Park. Hiked a lot of miles and saw a lot of orange rocks and it was great. Awesome weather and...
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Oct 26, 20221 min read
Rolling Down the River
Had the chance to kayak down the mighty Nechako River, slurpee in the cup holder and the weather was perfect for a float.
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Oct 26, 20221 min read
Mt. Pope Provincial Park
Took a day to do a not so quick and not so easy 8 mile hike up Mt. Pope, got a good workout and got to enjoy some beautiful views. Didn't...
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Oct 24, 20221 min read
Candyland
Amazing chance to go to Canyonlands National Park, spent 4 days there by myself doing some backcountry camping and hiking. I did take my...
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Oct 24, 20221 min read
Camera Ruined
Well, we did a hike to test out our camera, got a few good shots and also found out it isn't waterproof. Im really good at planning hikes...
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Oct 24, 20221 min read
Red Reef Trail Hike
March in St George means perfect time to swim, we did an awesome hike through some slot canyons with enough water to swim in, I always...
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Oct 24, 20221 min read
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