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http://www.highuintapackgoats.com/ Goats can be used as pack animals to carry some of your gear.

Well, yikes. My big trip is still a week and a half out, and it looks like the big "low snow" year isn't panning out to clear much earlier than normal after all. Time to start getting plan B options queued up...

Interesting to compare trip reports and pictures from this and an earlier trip, done at a later point in the summer. Some of the pictures seem to literally be from the exact same point of view. http://www.summitpost.org/the-cathedral-of-the-uintas/844487

Yeah, Yard peak is the big one on the right. "Dead Horse Peak" is the officially un-named one on the left of the lake. EDIT: I know its from a distance, but Norice doesn't look frozen, does it?

Can't wait to see the pictures. It's making me antsy to get up there myself.

Great trip report! Sadly, when I arrive in two weeks, it'll probably just in time for the mosquitoes to be in full bloom. :(

Yeah, sorry--I was trying to keep my questions mostly concerned with parts of my route that coincided with your route too; just to make sure that it wasn't going too far afield from your original questions.

Yeah, I meant that kind of rhetorically. Why aren't the rangers going up there more? Sigh. The instagram search ain't a bad idea.

Actual necessities? Shelter (usually a tent), sleeping bag and pad, backpack, sufficient clothes for the weather, food, good hiking footwear of some kind, to taste, and some method of water purification, at least in the Uintas. Beyond that, you might want to check out this series of videos...

Thanks for the advice. Luckily, they don't look like really steep passes, but I'm still on the fence about whether or not I'll end up making three of them in one day. That's a lot of climbing. I can play it by ear, though--I have a lot of padding in my schedule after I get past the first two...

That's the perfect window, isn't it? A bit tough to time, but makes for the best experience combined with the best pictures afterwards...

That sucks. If the rangers don't know, who would? EDIT: Read the rest of the posts after that. Good! I'll be up starting the 29th, and I really didn't want to have to alter my plans just on account of the snow. I agree that some snow his highly desirable, actually. Makes the mountains much...

Anyone heading up this weekend? I'd love to see how much another week has changed. Based on some vague discussions with the rangers, they're saying not too much has melted yet this week and that snowline is still somewhere below 11,000 ft.

As an aside; I just called the ranger's office in Evanston. In spite of the low snow winter, it's not clearing all that much as of now; snowline is still below 11,000 feet, and with the recent wet weather, it's not melting much either. Without a week or two of relatively warm, dry weather...

http://www.americansouthwest.net/utah/uinta-mountains/naturalist-basin.html There's someone who took a bunch of pictures from that ridge. I don't know exactly what route he planned, but he got up there from the Naturalist side, near Spread Eagle. The map linked below is more about getting to...

And I've been to Naturalist and not Middle! If you go that route, I suggest you don't camp at Jordan Lake, especially on a weekend, and instead get up on the bench and look for one of the campsites in the trees not far from Faxon Lake. You'll be near treeline, but there are spots still in the...

My plan was to set up camp near Lower Red Castle Lake, spend some time in the evening exploring all three western Red Castle Lakes, and then hitting the hay early so I can get an early start on the next day. That gives me somewhere between 2-3 miles to hike before hitting Smith's Fork Pass...

And that's where, coming full circle, there is an opportunity to kinda sorta buy you're way into lighter weight. Check out this review, for example, for the Sea to Summit Comfort Light insulated air mattress. Reviews for the Therm-a-rest NeoAir XTherm are similar. If you spend $200 on a...

That's a huge tent and that's lots of clothes. You could easily cut out several pounds there, collectively--and maybe be able to downsize to a smaller, lighter pack after you've done so, but you have to live in the same clothes longer and accept a smaller tent. What do you do in a tent that...

I know it's not my map or my thread, but thanks from me, too! I'll be doing a loop in about a month or so too, from EFBF over Bald Mountain to Red Castle. Then I'll go around to the East side of Red Castle, over Smith's Fork Basin, and join much of this trail (to Deadhorse Pass at least)...