uintas

This trip was a 4 day jaunt in search of solitude to an area I have wanted to scope out: Reconnaissance Lake in the upper Rock Creek Basin, High Uintas. It has been an wet one in this area and this trip was no exception: Apparently the week prior was high and dry, but the moment I parked the car...

All spring and summer this year I've been trying to find a way to get back into the heart of the Uinta Mountains. My wife and I came up with the idea of several short multi-day trips in August and September that I hoped would get me there. A through hike of the Highline Trail was out of the...

This summer I've been drawn to explore the Blacks Fork River drainage in the Uinta Mountains. Having been up Middle Fork and West Fork of the Blacks Fork on previous trips it was time to head east to East Fork Blacks Fork. Being limited somewhat to day hikes I was jonesin' for a classic Uinta...

Have you ever been perusing maps and some route or location piqued your interest even though you don't know anything about it? For me one of these was the Bear River Smith Fork trail and Cataract Basin in the Uinta Mountains. Last summer had been trying with all the major wild fires in the...

Life has been busy this year and as a result, I am way behind on posting trip reports. But that's what snowy weekends in December are for! What better way to start than with a report from our Uinta Highline crossing in July. My first attempt at the Highline was in July 2012. We started at Leidy...

Prologue I left Casper and covered 100 miles before camping for the night north of Rawlins, avoiding all the major thunderstorms that threatened the area. I covered the last 200 miles the following day and met up with Shan, my “shuttle” at the turn off for the Red Cloud Loop north of Vernal...

I have hesitated to write this trip report because things did not turn out as I hoped, and I was pretty disappointed. In the interest of sharing a little information on a trail that I struggled to find beta on, I thought I should post a few words and pictures. I have also appreciated when others...

I need to be in the right mood to write a trip report. It took a little while to find that essence, but for good or bad, here it goes. For Labor Day Weekend I took one of my sons out into the Uintas to Naturalist Basin. A friend of mine was to join us sometime Sunday with his 6 year old son, so...

Hi everyone, this is my first ever post on Backcountrypost. :oops: I've enjoyed reading other posts on this site especially the posts of Backpacking trips in high Alpine Wilderness areas, so I thought I should contribute with this trip - it was a good one! I LOVE BACKPACKING - especially summer...

A few days ago I posted about getting driven out of the Winds by mosquitoes: https://backcountrypost.com/threads/wind-river-mountains-conditions-2018.7691/page-3#post-99544 Following that experience my son and I still had plenty of backpacking food and clear space in the calendar, so we decided...

June 7 - June 10, 2018 Our annual June Uintas trip happened way early this year. So little snow! Sad. But, it was a excellent trip - the weather was perfect, scenery was great, we only saw a few mosquitoes (wow!), fishing was good, snow was mostly a non issue, and the company was great! Here...

Over the 4th of July weekend, 2015, I walked a terrific loop in the central part of the High Uintas Wilderness. Here are the dirty details. I drove to East Fork Blacks Fork Trailhead on Thursday evening (the 4th being observed, for work purposes, on Friday). The last six miles to the trailhead...

It's been a few months since I did this trip, but figured I would write up a trip report since I found lots of good info on the forum and recently joined. For the trip my sister, her friend, and my brother-in-law came along. This was a new experience for me as most of my trips I am going solo...

In 2016 my brother Brent and I embarked on a highly ambitious goal to do the entire length of the Uinta Highline Trail in the Uinta Mountains. Neither of us had done any backpacking in years. It was to be a monumental journey that would begin at the east end of the trail at McKee Draw just...

Snow is already accumulating in earnest in Utah’s High Uintas. My son and I tried to sneak in one last backpacking trip to enjoy the Fall colors and hopefully beat the snow. No such luck. When we set out there was already some snow at the trailhead above Trial Lake. Trails were clear of...

I had a few days off work last week and decided I would take a trip up to the Uintas. My original plan was to explore the upper Rock Creek Drainage, but when the forecast looked bad for the end of the week I decided to shorten the trip and save Rock Creek for another time. Since I had some...

It has been way too long since I posted a trip report. I am always glad to see reports, but like this one or not, perhaps this one at least may brighten someone's day. Or you may hate it. If you hate it, sorry it is long. This past Labor Day, I took my 10 year old son up into Middle Basin...

I took two of my boys, ages 10 and 7, to Erickson Basin Aug. 3-5. This was the first backpacking trip for Fisher who is 7 and the third trip for Justin who is 10. Both boys did great! We drove to the Upper Setting trail head on Thursday morning. The last couple of miles of road to the trail...

For a meetup with friends, mostly inspired by Adam from last year's Highline Trail trip, we opted for a more casual trip up into the Uintas this year. We chose Allsop Lake, a place neither of us had been yet. Given how the trail conditions turned out, it would have been just as fitting had it...

I feel like it's been forever since I posted a proper trip report. Most of my outings over the last 6 months have been work-driven mountain biking trips that aren't very interesting. This trip actually happened back in February but I'm just getting to it. Life has been so crazy the last couple...