On July 25, 2012, Benjy flew out and we took a trip to Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range. Of course, for Benjy this was a climbing trip, but I convinced him to spend a couple of days backpacking with me. I had never…
The weekend of 20 Jul 12, Tracy and I headed up to Tosi Creek in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Wyoming. We had checked out this trailhead a few weeks earlier, and I wanted to see if we could make it up to Tosi Basin. There isn’t…
On 30 Jun 12, Tracy and I took a backpacking trip up the East Fork of the Bear River. We had just checked out this trail for the first time a couple of weeks earlier, and it seemed flat enough for Tracy to try with her healing…
New Zealand was one of those perfect outdoor vacations. With mountains and glaciers and fjords and oceans and huts and nice people, New Zealand simply can’t be beat.
The Needles District of Canyonlands National Park offers some of the best backpacking in southern Utah. I have found many hidden gems throughout this area that have left me awe struck.
The weekend of 16 July 11 I took a solo backpacking trip into the Uintas. The snow was finally mostly gone up there, so I thought I would give it a shot. Initially, I wanted to hike out to Garfield Basin but the Weather Service snow models…
It’s hard to find a bad hike anywhere in the Rockies of western Wyoming, and the Gros Ventre Wilderness is no exception.
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 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.…
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…
