Virgin Narrows

On 15 Oct 10, Tracy and I drove down to Zion National Park to hike the Narrows of the Virgin River.  We drove to Springdale on Friday night and then got up early in the morning to pick up our overnight permit.  We had reserved a permit…

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Kings Canyon and Yosemite

Tracy and I took a couple of days off work, and headed out to California on October 7, 2010 for a short vacation. We left about noon on Thursday and drove to Bakersfield, CA. On Friday we drove on to Sequoia National Park. We really didn’t form…

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Tetons

The weekend of September 24, 2010, Tracy and I made our annual fall trip up to the Tetons to see some fall colors and to hear the elk bugle. This has been a regular trip for the past several years, and it’s always been a good one…

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San Luis Peak

  [Jump to Photos] Over the long weekend of September 3, 2010, Tracy and I made our third annual trip to Colorado to climb a 14er.  This year we decided to do San Luis Peak.  The hike up to San Luis is longer than most 14ers, so…

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Naturalist Basin

The weekend of 28 Aug 10, Tracy and I decided to try our luck with Naturalist Basin. We had tried to hike here a couple of times in the spring, but there was always too much snow. I didn’t want to hike it in the summer because…

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Loon Creek

The weekend of August 20, 2010, Tracy and I headed up to Idaho to do some more hiking in the Sawtooths. We had been there once before and I wasn’t overly impressed, but Tracy liked it, so we decided to try another trail. We spent Friday night…

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Timpanogos Cave

On 15 Aug 10, we finally went to Timpanogos Cave outside of American Fork, UT. The cave is a National Park just about an hour from the house, but we had never been here. We decided to go early on a Sunday morning to try to escape…

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Washakie Wilderness

The weekend of August 6, 2010, Eric and I went to check out the Absaroka Mountains outside the east end of Yellowstone. I decided I wanted to try to see grizzly bears on the high mountains feeding on Army Cutworm Moths. They gather in large groups to…

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Absaroka Mountains

The long weekend of July 2, 2010, Tracy and I headed up to Wyoming to check out the North Absaroka Wilderness and the Washakie Wilderness. We hadn’t really been in this area, so I wanted to check it out a little more. I also wanted to check…

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