The weekend of October 6, 2006, Tracy, Jessica, and I went to Yellowstone. Jessica had never been, so when she came to visit we figured that would be a good place to take her. We also planned on taking her to the Tetons since the last time…
Looking for some great fall colors, on 30 Sep 06, Tracy and I hiked the Row Bench trail just outside of Heber City. This trail had lots of aspen, and we didn’t see one person in 7.5 miles of hiking, even though the trail is right off…
The Ruby Mountains Wilderness in Nevada is less than four hours from Salt Lake, and I had seen some pictures of the mountains that looked really nice. So on the weekend of 22 Sep 06, Tracy and I headed to the Ruby Mountains to check them out. …
Tracy and I went on vacation the week of August 20, 2006. We had a round-robin road-trip planned that would end up putting over 3000 miles on Tracy’s car in one week. We left on Friday after work and drove to Ontario, Oregon, for the night. That…
I had a co-worker visiting Utah from Portland, so I convinced him to let me take him on an overnighter in the Uintas. So on August 5, 2006, he and I went backpacking at Granddaddy Lake in the High Uintas Wilderness of northern Utah. Being from sea…
On July 30, 2006, Tracy and I hiked the White Pine Lake trail near the Mount Naomi Wilderness in northern Utah. The trailhead at Tony Grove Lake was a little crowded, and you have to pay $3 to park at the trailhead, but we had made the…
On July 22, 2006, I did a solo overnighter to Brown Duck Basin in the Uintas. It was crazy hot in the city, so I figured I needed to get away to the mountains. This was a pretty good hike, but it gained a lot of elevation,…
On June 25, 2006, we hiked up to Swasey Lakes in the High Uintas Wilderness of Utah. This was the last trail we hiked in October before it got cold…actually, it had already gotten cold. But we only made it as far as the top of Long…
The Memorial Day weekend of May 27, 2006, Tracy and I went to Yellowstone again. The weather forecast was calling for lots of snow throughout Utah and southern Wyoming (and, yes, it was almost June), so we thought we would give Yellowstone a chance, because I was…
On May 13, 2006, Tracy and I finally made it to the Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. We had been in the Monument a few times, but we hadn’t done any real hiking there. So we decided to hit the REALLY narrow slot canyons of Spooky…
