Over the long Memorial Day weekend of 27 May 11, we took a road trip over to Colorado. We had planned on going back to Montana like we did last year, but there was still too much snow, and the weather looked iffy. So we headed to…
A paddle through Labyrinth Canyon on the Green River is another bucket list trip. Soaring canyon walls, lazy river days, and the solitude of southern Utah make this an amazing trip.
The weekend of 6 May 11, I convinced Tracy that we should go do our first technical canyon. She didn’t really want to do it, so I found a canyon that only had one rappel and was dry. I had to do a lot of scouring online…
The weekend of April 1, 2011, Tracy and I made a trip out to the Grand Canyon to finally backpack down to the bottom. We took half a day off from work on Thursday to drive to the hotel outside the park, and then we started the…
The weekend of March 18, 2011, Tracy and I took a drive up to Yellowstone. Tracy wanted to see Yellowstone in the winter again, so we made the long drive up to the north entrance. We spent Thursday night in Rexburg, ID, and on Friday we drove…
We saw Smith Fork Canyon when we flew over it back in January, and it looked like a nice slickrock area that I wanted to check out. So the weekend of 4 Mar 11, we drove out towards Bullfrog, UT, to explore the area. The basic plan,…
With its huge caverns, Carlsbad was somewhere I figured we needed to see. So over the long weekend of 17 Feb 11, Tracy and I hopped on a plane and went down to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. We flew from Salt Lake to…
The weekend of 11 Feb 11, Tracy and I decided to try snowshoeing out to a yurt, again. The last time we did the Limber Flag Yurt, but this time we decided to do the Grizzly Ridge Yurt that was just a little south-west of Limber Flag.…
The weekend of 14 Jan 11, Tracy and I had a really cool trip down to Moab. On Saturday, we headed up to Canyonlands Field airport where we took a scenic flight over southern Utah. This was really cool. We had a pilot and a little 4…
On 9 Jan 11, Tracy and I did some snowshoeing on the Art Nord Trail near Snowbasin. I wanted to hike at night so we left late in the evening. However, it got crazy cold up there, so we ended up leaving just after the sun set. …
