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. …
These are various pictures from Utah trips in 2011 that I didn’t think warranted a complete trip report. East Fork Burnt Fork, UT – October 1, 2011 Causey Reservoir, UT – May 1, 2011 Antelope Island, UT – April 24, 2011 Moab Arches, UT…
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…
Tracy and I took a couple of days off work, and headed out to California on October 7, 2010 for a short vacation. We left about noon on Thursday and drove to Bakersfield, CA. On Friday we drove on to Sequoia National Park. We really didn’t form…
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…
[Jump to Photos] Over the long weekend of September 3, 2010, Tracy and I made our third annual trip to Colorado to climb a 14er. This year we decided to do San Luis Peak. The hike up to San Luis is longer than most 14ers, so…
The weekend of 28 Aug 10, Tracy and I decided to try our luck with Naturalist Basin. We had tried to hike here a couple of times in the spring, but there was always too much snow. I didn’t want to hike it in the summer because…
