The weekend of 21 Jun 08, Tracy and I headed back to hike the Stillwater Creek Trail in the Uintas. We had checked out the trail the weekend before and we were pretty sure this trail was mostly snow-free. This winter was a bad one and the…
The week of May 27, 2008, I headed to Tennessee for a few days of relaxation. While at home I hiked out to Hill Cave at Norris Lake, I hiked at the Obed River with James, I hiked the South Fork Citico Trail with David, played some…
Somehow I actually managed to convince my aerophobic dad to get on a plane and make his first trip to the Rocky Mountains. Actually, I bribed him: I bought him a plane ticket and told him it was his chance to show me how good he was…
Twice a year several of the roads in Yellowstone are open only to bicycles. In April, after they close the roads to snowmobiles to begin plowing the roads, and before they open the roads to cars, you can ride a bike on several of the roads in…
The weekend of 28 Mar 08, Tracy and I headed down to Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell to do some kayaking. Now, we could have rented two sea kayaks at REI in Salt Lake, but I figured it would be easier to rent them at the marina…
Number 50! Woo hoo! From March 8-16, 2008, Tracy and I went to the Big Island of Hawaii, and I finally checked the last state off my list! This completed a 13 year competition between Tracy and me, and I finally beat her…by one state! Now that…
The weekend of 1 Mar 08, I took off for Lake Powell to see if I could find a way to hit the water further up river on the north side of the lake. I wanted to find a place to launch our kayaks, because I want…
The weekend of 15 Feb 08, Tracy and I headed south. I was fed up with snow and I wanted to see some bare ground. We first tried to get to the Hans Flat area of Canyonlands National Park to see if we could get to the…
On 10 Feb 08, it had stopped snowing for about 10 minutes, so we headed to Antelope Island to do some hiking. My golden rule in the winter: if the weather is nice down low, stay down low and enjoy it. So we went to Antelope and…
The weekend of 1 Feb 08, Tracy and I braved the weather in the mountains of eastern Utah and headed up to the Limber Flag Yurt in the Uinta Mountains of the Ashley National Forest. We had tried a few weeks earlier to do the same trip,…
