The weekend of July 24, 2009, Tracy and I headed back to Colorado for a three day weekend to climb another 14er and to do some backpacking in the Weminuche Wilderness. We left work early on Thursday and drove all the way to Lake City, CO. We…
With its huge meadows, abundant wildlife, and small lakes, McCoy Park is one of my favorite places in the Uintas.
The weekend of May 8, 2009, we headed to Escalante. I had been out of town for most of the winter, and I really wanted to get into a canyon. Well, I planned to hike Hurricane Wash down into Coyote Gulch. We had done this hike a…
The weekend of 31 Oct 08 Tracy and I took a great trip to Paria Canyon and Buckskin Gulch. Buckskin is supposed to be one of the longest slot canyons in the world: a solid 15 miles of high-walled, narrow canyon. We had a permit for two…
The weekend of 13 Sep 08, Tracy and I backpacked at China Meadows in the Uintas. I’ve read that this trail can get pretty crowded in the summer so I hoped it would be late enough in the season to avoid the people. It was. We only…
On September 4, 2008, Jess and I headed to the Beartooths for a four day backpacking loop. We had tried to go the weekend before, but the weather forecast called for some nasty winter weather (yeah, just 3 weeks after the last winter weather stopped…), so we…
The weekend of August 1, 2008, Tracy and I headed to the Flat Tops Wilderness in Colorado for a three day hiking trip. We were originally going to hike in the Winds, but the snow still looked iffy, so then we decided to do the Beartooths, but…
Over the long weekend of July 4, 2008, Chris and Stacia flew in from Seattle and we all four went to the Tetons and Yellowstone for the weekend. The Tetons were pretty crowded, so we camped Friday night just outside of the south entrance of Yellowstone. Saturday…
The weekend of 21 Jun 08, Tracy and I headed back to hike the Stillwater Creek Trail in the Uintas. We had checked out the trail the weekend before and we were pretty sure this trail was mostly snow-free. This winter was a bad one and the…
The weekend of 1 Feb 08, Tracy and I braved the weather in the mountains of eastern Utah and headed up to the Limber Flag Yurt in the Uinta Mountains of the Ashley National Forest. We had tried a few weeks earlier to do the same trip,…
