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After 10 days hiking through Capitol Reef National Park, as I set up camp at the top of the Burr Trail Switchbacks on a calm evening, it appeared that the wet weather of the past few days might have finally passed through. However, soon after dark the wind began to quickly pick up, and I was being gently swayed and buffeted in my tent. Things then turned nasty rather quickly, with loud thunder claps, violent lightening, and torrential rain. Strong gusts of wind were now starting to fold my...

For our third week-long Wind River backpacking trip, we headed right into the middle of the range and did a loop around Pronghorn Peak. The fourth day of the forty-mile route took us off-trail from Bonneville Lake and Middle Fork Lake via Sentry Pass. There are several conflicting ways to do this, and we believe we took the best one, so I will detail it with topos from my watch app below. In 2006, we did a loop of the southern Winds from Big Sandy. We returned in 2018 and did a traverse...