uintas

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...

In mid-December, I stayed a few days in Heber, so I could head out from there to several ski areas to cross-country ski. After a few stormy days with lots of new snow, I decided to cross-country ski in the Uintas. With some help and recommendations I received from this awesome forum, I headed...

I will try to bore you with one more trip report from last summer. In August of 2015 I had the opportunity to go with some very nice people to the Beaver Creek Drainage on the North Slope of the Uintas. Trailhead starts at West Fork Beaver Creek trailhead which takes you up to Gilbert Lake and...

I have enjoyed reading many great trip reports on this site so thought I better share one from June of 2015. Hiked 7 miles from Mirror Lake trailhead to Pinto Lake in the Granddaddy Basin where we set up camp. Day 2 day hiked cross country 10 miles round trip from Pinto lake to the Four Lakes...

I've come back to Backcountry Post after a long time of not visiting the site to gain some inspiration of potential trips to do this Summer and thought i'd share a trip from last Summer that was my last backpacking trip before my wife and I had our first baby. I headed out in August with two...

Work on the Kim and Carole project occupied most of my time in the Uintas last summer, but I was able to slip in one quick overnighter at Hell Hole Lake. Hell Hole sits in a nice little valley nestled between A-1 Peak on the east and Kletting Peak on the west. It's accessed either via the...

My brother and I took our 8 year old sons backpacking to the Grandaddy basin Aug. 6-9, 2015. I hadn't been backpacking in years, and had never taken my son backpacking before. In the months and weeks leading up to the trip we gathered all the gear we would need. It was interesting to see...

October 9-10, 2015 This was my last mountain trip for the year. My friends and I decided on the Uintas, due to time constraints and because we love the Uintas. We also knew that once we got up there, we'd be racing the sunset, so we picked a hike that would give us solitude but wouldn't be too...