Base Camp Adventure Lodge

Base Camp Adventure Lodge Base Camp is an Adventure lodge located in Moab, Utah. In the middle of nowhere, and everywhere, at

Surrounded by the Amasa Back to the north, Hurrah Pass to the east, the Anti Cline and Hatch Point to the south, Canyonland's Dead Horse Point to the west, and the Colorado River running alongside, you've discovered Base Camp Adventure Lodge.

09/06/2026

This fb page is behind Tom's blog by a few months. However Tom just posted this on the blog yesterday.

Saturday, September 5, 2026
Need Help
I've got a mostly packed house this weekend so lot of cleaning before next week fills up again. Teresa didn't make it back from New York in time so I could use some help next week. Jax has surgery on Tuesday so I will be in town and can give somebody a ride back Tuesday after he can travel and take you back Friday night. Mostly cleaning, some landscaping, and maybe some pet sitting. Kobae wants to go hiking as well. I can clean, I can nurse Jax, and I can deal with Kobae. Just not sure I can do them all at the same time so if you're bored could use some help. 435-260-1783 or email me at [email protected]

Tuesday, June 2, 2026Blue Tails #2, #3, #4, and #5. Caught four more rock squirrels, painted their tells blue and dr...
09/03/2026

Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Blue Tails #2, #3, #4, and #5.
Caught four more rock squirrels, painted their tells blue and dropped them off in Dripping Springs and so far none have come back. It's some work and some side by side wear and tear in addition to drive round trip 50 minutes out and back to drop them off but it seems to be working.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026Busy Train StationIf you ever watched Yellowstone, they would take all the threats to their propert...
09/03/2026

Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Busy Train Station

If you ever watched Yellowstone, they would take all the threats to their property to the "Train Station" which was a place across the border with no people, no sheriff, no anything, and dump them in a canyon. For 20 years I have tolerated the rock squirrels digging tunnels everywhere, collapsing the cisterns, eating the wires on two of my trucks, twice, running into the lodge, eating all the flowers off the desert willows, collapsing the branches with their weight, tipping over the trash......However this 2026 is a massive relocation operation. We put Kobae's leftovers, which are few, in a cage, trap the rock squirrel and take him to the train station and release them alive. Jax chases them around the rock designated as the train station and then they run off into the distance with Jax right behind, unless it's hot and then Jax is not as interested. The grooming lady is having a baby and Jax can't get a haircut for awhile so when it's hot, he's hot. This is #24 to the train station.

This is #25.

Then there was #26 who looks like this. I'm nervous we're going to pass the number of Haydukers we had this year which was 45.

Thursday, May 7, 2026The BeachThe river is so low you have to drag kayaks about 50 feet to get to water but the beach is...
08/31/2026

Thursday, May 7, 2026
The Beach
The river is so low you have to drag kayaks about 50 feet to get to water but the beach is huge.

Thursday, May 7, 2026Bad Roads Lead To Good People: NoahNoah comes out every year for three or four days and stays in th...
08/28/2026

Thursday, May 7, 2026
Bad Roads Lead To Good People: Noah
Noah comes out every year for three or four days and stays in the Condo, usually with three or so friends. They always ask me about something unique which usually has some difficulty to get to. They've climbed up to The Crack, Two Trains, Three Guys on a Roller Coaster, the abandoned mines in Dripping Springs, the 30 minute hike through the mine by Three Guys that goes out the other side, Amasa Back, Jackson Ladder, inside Jackson Butte, and this time I sent them the back way up Dripping Springs to the top of The Anti Cline. The quality of the guests we get out here is amazing. Noah handed me this.

Thursday, May 7, 2026Desert WillowThe three Desert Willow tress which always bloom between the 10th and 14th of May firs...
08/25/2026

Thursday, May 7, 2026
Desert Willow
The three Desert Willow tress which always bloom between the 10th and 14th of May first started blooming April 30th this year. Since we're 24 Rock Squirrels short maybe the flowers will survive with out all being eaten.

Monday, June 1, 2026Blue Tail to Dripping Springs In the early days I'd catch rattlesnakes and take them to the intersec...
08/25/2026

Monday, June 1, 2026
Blue Tail to Dripping Springs

In the early days I'd catch rattlesnakes and take them to the intersection of Lockhart Basin and Chicken Corner and release them. They'd be back about a week later. Didn't paint them they just came back to the same place they got caught originally. I read up on them and learned that the Midget Faded or Faded Midget, I've seen them listed both ways, never went more than a mile from where they were born. They had some sort of beacon in them that kept them grounded to their birth neighborhood. Thinking about it I figured the beacon had to be a straight line. I started taking them three turns toward Chicken Corner where now they have to swim the river three times to get back. To add to it, down a fairly tough slope to get next to the river. They don't come back anymore.

There's something telling the rock squirrels where home is. I assume it's the smell of the river or the prominent saddle rock formation across the river that assists them in returning to the lodge. We caught the blue tailed one again and this time Jax and I took him way back into Dripping Springs, past the Wind Caves, where it can't see The Saddle and has several water springs to mitigate the smell of river water. When I use to drop them at the Train Station part way up Hurrah Pass, Jax would chase them off into the distance and be gone four or five minutes. He's never caught one but it keeps them from heading back to the side by side. Dropping the first one off in Dripping Springs there is so much cover the chase lasted about 15 seconds.

Sunday, May 31, 2026MoratoriumI've taken a couple day moratorium on catching rock squirrels while trying to figure out w...
08/20/2026

Sunday, May 31, 2026
Moratorium

I've taken a couple day moratorium on catching rock squirrels while trying to figure out what to do next. Can't leave them all here and I don't want to kill anything though they have done significant damage to my trucks wires, cisterns, and even Kobae's house has some tunnels going down into it. Got to do something. So until I figure it out Jax and I are going hiking.

While generally things are going pretty well and bookings are climbing back up after last year's disaster as is most of Moab it appears we have one more critter issue. At the 9:30 pm critter feeding we have one raccoon, we call "Mother", is a problem. She's been coming to the porch for nightly feedings for several years. All critters have designated spots to eat. The raccoons own the left side of the porch, the skunks own the right, ringtails the rafters, gray fox the left side of the parking lot and red fox the right side of the parking lot. Jax keeps them in their places but Mother ignores the rules. She does whatever she wants. I can wack her with the broom and she doesn't care. She took a skunk hot dog and the skunk sprayed her three times in the face. She calmly took the hot dog, washed it in the water bowl, then went out in the parking lot to try and steal a fox hot dog. I'm constantly on her. It's draining. She's next after we figure out the rock squirrel issue.

Feeding the critters has always been fun. There are a few days where it's not so much.

Sunday, May 31, 2026Hummingbirds The large Desert Willow has a couple hundred flowers on it and even the small ones have...
08/17/2026

Sunday, May 31, 2026
Hummingbirds
The large Desert Willow has a couple hundred flowers on it and even the small ones have fifty or sixty. They have hummingbirds on them all day and especially towards evening you can see eight to ten at one time. Teresa put a couple of feeders on the big one to include one right above the chair I frequently sit in so you here a hummingbird look up and it's just a couple feet above your head.

unday, May 31, 2026The Day After The day after dropping off a painted red tail squirrel at the train station it was out ...
08/12/2026

unday, May 31, 2026
The Day After
The day after dropping off a painted red tail squirrel at the train station it was out on the back porch eating. Fortunately we caught him again and this time painted his tail blue and took him on a caged hike way out past the train station into a couple of gullies and released him.

The very next day I saw blue tail out on the back porch eating.

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