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.
After making it to all 50 states last year, we decided it was time to start exploring outside the country. We usually only take one major trip every other year, but Chris and Stacia said they wanted to go to Europe this year because they might not…
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 May 1, 2009 we headed back up to Yellowstone…I really can’t seem to get enough of that place. We drove up on Friday and stayed in West Yellowstone. On Saturday we hiked the Blacktail Deer Creek Trail. This was a really nice trail that…
The weekend of February 20, 2009, Tracy and I headed up to Jackson, WY, to see what the winter up there would be like. On Saturday we got on Highway 26 and drove over to Dubois, WY. It dawned on me that we had never driven that…
These are pictures from around Utah in 2009 that didn’t warrant a full trip report. Snowbasin, UT – November 14, 2009 Great Salt Lake, UT – November 7, 2009 Snowbasin, UT – October 31, 2009 Deep Creek Mountain, UT – October 10, 2009 …
The weekend of 12 Dec 08, Tracy and I headed down to southern Utah. I planned to check out a few roads in the area. We found some really nice stuff outside of Moab and Green River, and we spent the entire weekend in the same general…
Over the long Thanksgiving weekend of 26 Nov 08, Tracy and I headed out for another long weekend kayaking on Lake Powell. We rented kayaks from REI and then headed to Bullfrog on the north end of the lake. We had tried to kayak here earlier in…
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…
