Mascot for the expedition

Griz Lee Bear.  This is our mascot for the expedition.  Photo at left.  The knife and spork make him look like he can take care of business. 

CDR 2011

This blog will be updated during the expedition so family and friends can see where we are and what we will be seeing.

CDR 2011 Matt and Tom

This expedition for 2011 which will have us following the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico has been in the works for quite some time. Nearly 2 years. After we returned from the expedition to the San Rafael Swell area of central Utah in 2009, we knew we had to go on another.

The expedition we are planning for this year will be the trip of a lifetime. It will begin with us traveling from southeast Nebraska to the Canadian border. Then we will head south and follow the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide as closely as we can until we reach the Mexican Border.

From there we will head west to areas in Arizona and then north to southeastern and east central Utah before we turn our Jeeps toward home.

2009 San Rafael Swell Expedition......Matt, Tom and Eric

In 2009, we went on an expedition to the San Rafael Swell area of central Utah.  We spent nearly a week exploring the area and ran some of the trails there.  "The Devil's Racetrack", "The Black Dragon Road" and "Fixit Pass" are just a few of the trails we went on.

Imagine for a moment how exciting it is to find a dinosaur footprint in solid rock and see the many Anastasi Indian pictographs.

The area is a beautiful part of Utah that is very remote as we saw very few other people that were more than a mile or two from the highway.