The weekend of August 12, 2011, Tracy and I headed up to Idaho and Montana to check out the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. We stayed Friday night in Idaho Falls; I wanted to drive further, but there were no hotels any closer to Salmon, ID, and I didn’t know…
The weekend of July 29, 2011, Tracy and I stayed at the Carter Military Trail Yurt in the eastern Uintas. We stayed in Vernal on Friday night and then we headed up into the mountains on Saturday. The weather was great, so we decided to hike on…
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.
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,…
