On September 4, 2008, Jess and I headed to the Beartooths for a four day backpacking loop. We had tried to go the weekend before, but the weather forecast called for some nasty winter weather (yeah, just 3 weeks after the last winter weather stopped…), so we…
Woo hoo! The weekend of August 22, 2008, Tracy and I finally summited our first 14er. We climbed the 14,048 foot Handies Peak outside of Lake City, CO. We drove to the mountain on Friday night and camped just down the road from the trailhead. We then…
The weekend of August 1, 2008, Tracy and I headed to the Flat Tops Wilderness in Colorado for a three day hiking trip. We were originally going to hike in the Winds, but the snow still looked iffy, so then we decided to do the Beartooths, but…
The weekend of 19 Jul 08, Tracy and I headed over to the Highline Trail on the east side of the Uintas. I wanted to get above tree line and I wanted to get away from the mosquitoes. Well, we got above tree line, but the mosquitoes…
Over the long weekend of July 4, 2008, Chris and Stacia flew in from Seattle and we all four went to the Tetons and Yellowstone for the weekend. The Tetons were pretty crowded, so we camped Friday night just outside of the south entrance of Yellowstone. Saturday…
On 28 Jun 08, Tracy and I did a long dayhike up to Grandaddy Lakes in the Uintas. We did some cross-country hiking to Marsell Lake, which was nice. We couldn’t get down to Marsell Lake because it was too steep where we came up on the…
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…
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 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,…
The weekend of 12 Jan 08, we showshoed to a Forest Service cabin outside of Lava Hot Springs, ID, in the Pebble Creek area. We reserved the cabin online, and the Forest Service people were really nice and helpful. We showshoed about 6 miles up to the…
