USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch to Fortymile Ridge — Grand Staircase-Escalante Desert Bench via Egypt Trailhead
Sand, clay, and canyon views with no easy out.
Surface: Dirt
California
ModerateMojave Road — Needles to Fenner via Piute Valley and Lanfair Road
60 miles of Mojave history with nobody watching.
California
EasyCrowley Lake Road to Benton Crossing — Long Valley Caldera Desert Basin Traverse
Volcanic basin drive most Mammoth visitors never find.
Colorado
ModerateConundrum Creek Road to Conundrum Hot Springs — Elk Mountains High Approach via Castle Creek
Aspen's back door to 14er country and hot springs.
New Mexico
ModerateSawmill Road to Baldy Mesa — Lincoln National Forest High Country Approach via Nogal Canyon
Desert to sky island in one canyon climb.
USA
DifficultCoyote Gulch to Red Well — Grand Staircase-Escalante’s Slot Canyon Approach via Red Well Trailhead
Sand, slickrock, and zero company in Coyote Gulch.
Texas
ModerateSawmill Road to Mount Locke — Davis Mountains High Desert Observatory Approach via Limpia Creek
Texas sky island — dark skies, thin air, wide open.
Idaho
ModerateGalena Summit Road to Stanley Basin — Sawtooth Valley High Approach via the Wood River Divide
The Sawtooth reveal that hits you like a wall.
USA
ModerateParia Canyon Rim Road — Kanab to Whitehouse Trailhead via the Vermilion Cliffs Bench
Vermilion Cliffs badlands to the Paria canyon door.
Colorado
EasyLonesome Highway — Centennial Range Rim to Island Park via Targhee National Forest Back Road
Kremmling to Steamboat the way Colorado intended.