uintas

It was time for my annual trip to the Uintas this past weekend, and this year we stayed at the Ledgefork Campground for two nights. On Saturday, Sheila and I managed a six mile out-and-back hike up Smith and Morehouse Creek. No "Wow" moments on this hike as I had to get back by 3:00 pm to cook...

Just getting around to posting this trip report from 9/5/2024-9/8/2024. Day 1: Backpacking to Base Camp. 9.2 Mi, 1719 ft ascent. Thursday morning, backpacked to Henry's Fork Lake via Big Meadows Trail. There wasn't really an established trailhead that we could find, just a clearing we pulled...

This is my trip report of a hike I did last fall (2024) in the high Uintas. I usually hike solo, and this trip was no different. The drive to the trailhead would take just under two hours, so I had to wake up early to make it to the trail at a reasonable hour. I wanted to start just before...

With the favorable weather Northern Utah had in May, it was plausible my daughter and I could sneak in an early Uinta backpack. The US Forest Service Vernal Office indicated that all the southern Uinta trailheads would be open for the upcoming weekend, the first weekend in June. We planned on...

I'd been trying to put together a big Utah trip with my buddies for quite some time. We actually had plans to make it out there in October of '23 but due to a scheduling mixup, they ended up there while I was in the Sierra. Our trip to remedy that this year worked out, sort of. Our original plan...

It's been a minute since i've shared a trip report here. But I relied pretty heavily on some information shared here in this forum to plan my trip, so I thought i'd share this as well. I have no idea how many people have actually done this route the way I did it, but was surprised to see cairns...

I've been heading up to the Uintas for a weekend over the summer for the past thirty three years. On these trips, I usually do a day hike on the Saturday, and quite frequently I have hiked to the top of Bald Mountain. While on top of Bald Mountain, I have always looked over to the northwest at...

Hello everyone, My wife and I after bailing from the Grand Teton trip went south for a 3 day 2 night in the High Uintas (was originally going to be 4 days 3 nights) but because of road work in wyoming a 4 hour drive took 8 hours. This was our first time here, the only info we had was photos and...

I was supposed to hike to the top of Reid's Peak on my annual Uinta trip, but since the weather called for storms, I didn't feel comfortable summitting Reid's, which I have never attempted before, in a cloud, so I instead did the old standby, Bald Mountain. Someone at our campground had said...

For the past half-decade or so, one of my outdoor projects has been exploring the main crest of the eastern Uintas. Unlike the western Uintas, the eastern part of the range is gentle and rolling - great for walking right on the crest. I hiked the crest from Leidy Peak to Chepeta Lake in 2016 and...

At the beginning of the 2020, I had made my usual set of plans for various trips to aim for throughout the year. Then March happened. With the exception a quick little overnight trip up on Southern Utah's Boulder Mountain a couple months later over Memorial Day weekend with my wife and older...

Finally! Fom July 25 to July 31 we hike about 100 miles along the Uinta Highline Trail. My heart is still reeling from the experience! This Poem kind of expresses how I feel: 1.Our mountain home so dear, Where crystal waters clear Flow ever free, While thru the valleys wide The flow’rs on...

This trip was a week of discovery on this 85+ mile solo through hike: I can do a 7 day trip with my 65 L pack. Why there is not a complete Uinta High-route. It is a challenge to keep up with the Calories. The bigger lakes do not always have the bigger fish..different story with the smaller...

For the past thirty years now, one weekend (2 or 3 nights) during the summer, my family gets together with some coworkers and some former coworkers and we car camp at various campgrounds, usually along the Mirror Lake Highway, though we have camped at Smith and Morehouse, and Ledgefork in the...

This won’t be a legit trip report - you’ll see why if you read on. I headed up to the Uintas with two friends for a 3 night backpacking trip last weekend. We checked out some new territory starting at the Center Park trail head, hiking through Garfield Basin, and bagging Kings Peak. It was my...

I've been dealing with a troublesome knee on and off since about March of this year. Recently it got really bad to the point that I couldn't even do my daily walks around town. Pretty discouraging to say the least. I decided I better see an orthopedist to see what was up. After an x-ray and...

Around the 1st of June really started to feel the bug to get out in the high county. Snow levels were deep this past winter and all of the trail heads over 10,000 feet in the Uintas were still unobtainable unless with skis or snowshoes, but I gradually pulled out my backpacking gear, and watched...

Nothing like a COVID-19 pandemic to give you the time to write up some long overdue trip reports. I've gotten so many great ideas, timely conditions reports, and ogled over enough pictures, that it's time to give back. While putting this together, I'm reminded about how far cell phone cameras...

Another short hike I'd yet to do off of the popular Mirror Lake Highway that cuts through the western end of the Uinta Range is a trail that wraps around Bald Mountain instead of up Bald Mountain. This trail takes you by a number of other nice lakes, namely Clegg, Notch and Bench Lakes. I...

September 14-15, 2019 Seeing everyone's photos and trip reports trickling in from the past summer spurred me to write this one up. I love winter, but I also love summers in the mountains. This was a somewhat spur-of-the-moment trip. It was after Labor Day, and I was wanting to see somewhere...