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…
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…
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…
Over the long Memorial Day weekend of May 28, 2010, Tracy and I took a long road trip up to northwestern Montana. Besides my work trip up here a week earlier, we had never been in this part of Montana, and we wanted to check it out.…
On May 19, 2010, I went to Kalispell, MT, for work, and took the opportunity to explore and hike around. Our very first trip to the Rocky Mountains was in 1997, when we went to Glacier National Park. We haven’t been back to Glacier since then, and…
The weekend of March 26, 2010, I took a drive up to Boise to meet Chris and Stacia for the weekend. We spent some time hiking at the Bruneau Dunes State Park and at Bruneau Canyon. We also checked out the Birds of Prey Refuge, which was…
The weekend of February 19, 2010, Jessica and David came out for one last hoo-rah before they became parents. Since it was the dead of winter, and it seemed to be snowing as much in southern Utah as it was in the mountains, we decided to make…
The weekend of 12 Feb 10, Tracy and I headed up towards the Tetons to stay at a Forest Service cabin and to do some snowshoeing around the Tetons. On Friday night we braved the gloom and doom snow forecast and headed to the Stump Creek Guard…
The weekend of 15 Jan 10, Tracy and I did an 8 mile loop in Wildhorse Canyon. This was a nice, relaxing hike. We hiked to the end of the canyon then hiked across the slickrock back towards the road and then finished the loop via the…
Over the the long New Year’s weekend of January 1, 2010, Tracy and I went to Yellowstone with Jess and Amber. Winter is a great time to see animals, and we especially wanted to find wolves. We ran into some blowing snow on the drive into West…