Snowbasin has been open in the summer to mountain biking for what I believe is the 2nd year. My first time biking in the area involved a ride up Wheeler Canyon, and continuing on up a trail which leads to the lower parking lot at Snowbasin. From there we took the Old Snowbasin Highway…
Riverside/Crimson Trail – Logan Canyon
This trail starts in the Guinava Campground, and follows the Logan River West towards the Mill Hollow area, and reservoir, the upper one I believe. Then it climbs steeply up onto the mountainside until you’re hiking above the cliffs, where you’re almost at the same elevation as the Wind Caves directly across the canyon from…
Lewis Peak Take II
One of my friends wanted to do Lewis Peak, so I went again. All the snow was off the trails, and the wildflowers were starting to grow out of the ground where the snow once was. It was nice and windy, though not so strong that it was uncomfortable. I was feeling remarkably well…
Lewis Peak
Who could pass up a beautiful Saturday of hiking? Not I. I ditched my current project of rebuilding my master closet, and headed for Lewis Peak. It sits just South of where I live, so it was a whole 5 minute commute to the trailhead. This was my first time on the trail, and…
Bonneville Shoreline Trail Ogden 9th N > 12th St
This is a nice little stretch of trail that follows the Ogden-Brigham Canal for the most part. There’s a 250 ft elevation gain on the initial 1/2 mile climb on singletrack and then nice long stretches of flat road from there on out with occasional dips and climbs amounting to approximately 543 ft elevation climbed…
Indian Trail (22nd St to the shelter)
I did this over a week ago, but had the GPS elevation profile & map route to put up, so I wanted to post this before I completely forgot about it. The trail is well maintained, and well shaded for the last 2/3 of the trail. There’s nothing really remarkable about this trail. You hike…
Moab 2005
I biked Slickrock again this year. It was the typical experience — not too many people, the perfect weather, and still a good challenge to get through. I tried some homemade energy goop this year, a bottle of honey with some strawberry flavoring mixed in to thin it out a little and to make…
The Spiral Jetty/Great Salt Lake/Promontory Point
It got up into the 50’s today so I wanted to get out and explore my new area a bit. I’ve been wanting to go and check out Promontory Point for a long time, and just can’t seem to get out there. There’s basically no easy way. There is a rail line that goes…
Devil’s Playground
I heard about this place called the Devil’s Playground in the west desert of Utah, just off the huge expanse of insanely flat desert terrain that separates highway 30 from the Great Salt Lake 60 miles away. It took a lot of searching on the web to only come up with a couple references…
Rafting the Snake
I took some vacation time up around Jackson Hole about a week ago with some friends. We did a couple runs on the Snake. There are class I-III rapids on it. The peculiar thing about this river is that there is a highway a couple hundred feet above the river for the entire run, compared…