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…
On 15 Aug 10, we finally went to Timpanogos Cave outside of American Fork, UT. The cave is a National Park just about an hour from the house, but we had never been here. We decided to go early on a Sunday morning to try to escape…
The weekend of August 6, 2010, Eric and I went to check out the Absaroka Mountains outside the east end of Yellowstone. I decided I wanted to try to see grizzly bears on the high mountains feeding on Army Cutworm Moths. They gather in large groups to…
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…
The weekend of 26 Jun 10, Tracy, Eric, and I went to McCoy Park in the Uintas. We wanted to head to Island Lake, but when we got to Burnt Fork Creek, the river was running way too high to be able to cross. The drop down…
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 9 Apr 10, Tracy and I headed out to Coyote Gulch in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. We had once hiked down to the confluence of Hurricane Wash and Coyote Gulch, but we didn’t hike past the confluence. This time, however,…
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…
