uintas

This past weekend if any of you were in the Uintas then you know how enjoyable the weather was. We began our hike at the Highline Trail head on Wednesday and arrived at the trail around 9:00 am. By the time all of the boys had their crap organized and ready to go the weather was starting to turn...

I took my family out for an overnighter this weekend to Big Elk Lake. I was traveling with kids so needed to keep the hiking distance short, but I wanted to give them a good feel for backpacking and camping in the high Uintas. I was also hoping for a location with some decent fishing as well...

Spent the last week at West Fork Blacks Fork, after a day of getting acclimated at Bear River Campground first. Took my 13 year old son and explored the Mirror Lake Highway for a bit, and then dove into the back country for a few days. My son decided that backpacking may not be for him; he was...

This last weekend I took our scouts to Ibantik lakt in the Unitas. This hike was to be an overnighter and a practice hike for the 4 day trip we will be taking next week. We began our hike at the crystal lake trail head and started with the trail that goes past cliff and Clyde lake. It has been...

June 24-27, 2015 I took the ole Varsity Scouts to a place never visited before by scouts...the Grandaddy Basin! This was a good trip to kick off the mountain backpacking season. It's always great to get into the Uintas for the first time of the year. We chose Pine Island Lake, it's 7 miles from...

It was a long time coming. My 6-year-old, Ellory, finally got her turn out with dad. This daddy-daughter trip would take us into the Uintas, where we would backpack what has been dubbed the "Seventeen Lakes Loop" and include a little day hike to the Notch. The main objective, though, was to...

For the month of June, my shift at work has me getting Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. I had Naturalist Basin penciled in for the last week of June. Due to wet and muddy conditions earlier in the month in the area I had planned a daddy-daughter trip with my second oldest, I decided to allow a...

A couple of friends and I went to the Allsop Basin Fri - Monday (June 12- 15, 2015). We timed it pretty well as far as snow, bugs, and people. The weather was awesome (minus a brief hail storm that pinned us down as were about 2 minutes from the car on the way out- doh!), there were only a few...

Been a while since I posted here but with the curiosity about Uintas conditions I figured this would be a good time to reactivate. Mandy and I made our way up to Lower Red Castle Lake this past weekend for our first trek up the famed East Fork Smith's Fork. I was aware of several, differing...

This trip first appeared on my blog as nine different parts. After doing five here, I was feeling I was stretching it out a bit more than I should have. So here the last four parts to this trip. After hiking around the lakes and going up and down the nearby cliffs we headed back to camp - I...

Having put seven plus miles of hiking with some moderately steep climbs I was beat. So the first thing I did was take off the pack and sit down and have some lunch. Unfortunately, lunch wasn't a medium rare steak . . . it was two Clif Bars, which is the case everyday of backpacking. One of...

After leaving the Gladys Lake area we hike through some nondescript areas and eventually to some high mountain meadows that were filled with beautiful wild flowers. This picture simply doesn't do this area justice. First off this meadow is huge. The trail bobs up and down for more than a...

After finding the cairns and getting back on track, our objective was to get to the Upper Rock Creek Trail. There are several trails through the Rock Creek Drainage, but we wanted the upper trail. Like a bowl has a top rim, the Rock Creek Drainage has a top rim and we wanted the trail that goes...

Early september my brother and i did Kings Peak. Not knowing to do any thing else, we went from the south, at the swift creek trail head. We went out the Swift Creek trail, which crosses Bluebell Pass and reconnects with the Yellowstone Creek trail. From that junction we continued up to the...

The guys and I decided to take a little trip in the Uintas last year around Sept. We started at East Fork Bear River trail head. Headed up the trail we saw old logging cabins This is just after the split to go to Allsop lake The light was running out on us but i got a glance at Mt.Beulah...

I know many of you probably have done this trip, but I didn't find too many trip reports on it, so you get mine! This was done August 13-16, 2014 with our Boy Scout Troop from Saratoga Springs, UT. So for you scoutmasters looking for info on this trip, I hope this can help. Or for those that...

Toward the end of August, we decided to go to Ruth Lake at Uinta. We found a great camping spot hiking in 2 miles. We had a blast climbing there but boy was it cold. If the sun wasn't shining then it would have not been possible to climb. .

June 2007 This is a popular day hike in the Uintas. It's right off the highway near the high point at Bald Mountain Pass. It hit very near 100 degrees in the valley yesterday so it was especially nice to be high in the mountains. trip date: 6/17/07 distance: 4 Miles Round Trip starting...

Back in the winter of 2005/2006, I lived in Kamas, Utah, right at the start of the Mirror Lake Highway. I spent many of my weekends up in the hills east of Kamas skinning around on my splitboard with the dogs. I've never posted a trip report or anything from it, but Steve's thread asking about...

After reaching the top of Rocky Sea Pass we started descending into the Rock Creek Drainage. It's from this side you can see where the pass gets it's name. Looking out over the Rock Creek Drainage while descending the rocky side of Rocky Sea Pass. See that pointy peak in the top middle of the...