The weekend of August 7, 2009, Tracy and I took a three day weekend to the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Montana and Wyoming. We planned to do two nights on the trail, but the weather forecast was calling for severe thunderstorms. Well, actually, NOAA was calling for severe…
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.
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 October 10, 2008, Jessica and David came to visit from Ohio. Jessica had been to the Tetons twice, but she always managed to come when it was snowing on the mountains, and she still had not actually seen the Teton range. I tried to…
Tracy and I hiked a little around Logan Canyon on 5 Oct 08. We wanted to see some good fall colors, and Logan Canyon never disappoints this time of year. We didn’t do any significant hiking…we just hiked a couple of short trails to get out into…
The weekend of September 26, 2008, Tracy and I headed to the Tetons for our annual trip to hear elk bugling. We heard elk, but this year we had more interesting experiences with moose. On Saturday we drove around outside the park to look for fall colors.…
The weekend of 13 Sep 08, Tracy and I backpacked at China Meadows in the Uintas. I’ve read that this trail can get pretty crowded in the summer so I hoped it would be late enough in the season to avoid the people. It was. We only…
