Just checked off another county high point. Took the North Route off of Mona Pole Rd. It’s a clean cut trail that slowly approaches the mountain while going up and down over a couple hills before you enter a basin on the North-East side of North Peak. The trail does a couple switchbacks before…
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Mojo Rebuilding on the Ben Lomond Trail from North Fork Park
I’ve always been curious about the trails out of North Fork Park. There are two that head up to the Skyline Trail, the Ben Lomond Trail and the Cutler Trail. I needed something where I was gaining some good elevation and covering some distance so I could get some of the mojo back that I…
La Sals/Moab 2006
The only reason I’d go to Moab in the middle of July is to climb Mt Waas and Mt Peale, unfortunately neither of those happened. Halfway up a ridiculous route on Peale I started getting dizzy which is really unusual for me even at high elevations, and we were only at 11,500 ft at…
Buckskin Gulch – Paria Canyon
Here’s the really brief synopsis of the trip: Buckskin Gulch – The never ending canyon. The 12 miles seemed like 30. Turn a corner, oh look! More canyon! Paria Canyon – Cross the “river”, get sand washed off feet, climb up the opposite bank, get feet covered in sand, repeat 50 gazillion times. Buckskin…
North Skyline Trail – North Ogden Pass
So for the 8th time in the last month, I hauled my butt up the North Skyline Trail to the snowline. Twice I did it on my bike. That did wonders for my riding already. 5 times I hiked it, and this time I threw on a 40 lb backpack to get me ready for…
Lewis Peak Runoff = Waterfalls
Up until Saturday I had never seen any water flowing on a section of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail I ride frequently in Ogden, but with the sudden warmup, the snow melt on Lewis Peak is coming down. This has created a couple different waterfalls, some right next to the trail which look really bad…
Superstition Mountains, AZ
Flew down to Phoenix to do a 4 day backpacking trip through the eastern Superstition Wilderness area. Got to the trailhead about 20 minutes before dark, but that’s fine since I was only going in a couple miles to the first campsite. Camp was going to be at a location known as Pinon Camp….
Devil’s Playground II — The night hell froze over
Needing a break and some solitude I headed back out to the West Desert to a great little camping spot. Weather was in the 60’s, blue skies, forecast said there would be a little wind, and possibly some snow in the morning. Looking at the weather satellite images it looked like the storm would…
Grand Canyon II
This trip I went down the South Kaibab Trail, spent 2 nights at Bright Angel CG, did a day trip up Phantom Canyon, and returned via the Bright Angel Trail. The weather forecast was sketchy at best. It was constantly changing, and never looked very appealing, but there’s nothing you can do about that….
Zions / Biking St. George
What a great trip! I took off on Wednesday to avoid some of the incoming storms. I didn’t like driving for endless hours through rainy, cold weather on my last trip, so skipping it for this one was nice. I headed to Mesquite NV to stay at one of the casino hotels down there…