uintas

I figured id skip the introductions and post the biggest trip i performed this year since reading your posts has made me nostalgic the season has ended in northern utah. I was able to get some good backpacking in this summer wand I can only hope next season I get half as many trips i look...

A few years back my brother and I set out on a late-season backpacking hike with the intention of overnighting at Ibantik Lake. The plan was to do an out-and-back by way of the Crystal Lake trailhead. But cold, rainy weather turned us back at the notch. We've intended to make good on the...

OK, this is my first trip report on here (or ever for that matter) and I apologize upfront for the picture quality… no photographic skills whatsoever. Still, I promised myself that if I ever did this hike, I would be sure to share the experience and some pictures with you all. The idea to do...

By popular request by several friends here at BackCountryPost.com I am posting a TR of traversing Amethyst Pass from a few years ago. This pass is a way to get over the Uintas Divide from south to north in the west end of our precious mountain range. This route’s crux is the crossing from the...

I spent a couple nights in the Uintas last weekend for the Backcountrypost Uinta Fest. I was able to slip out of work a little early on Friday so I went home, picked up Nikita, and raced on up to the Crystal Lake trailhead. Most of the group was planning on coming in on Saturday and meeting us...

Well, on August 18, 2012, my wife and I took another couple to backpack to Spider Lake in Garfield Basin up in the Uintas. We had backpacked to Long Park and Swasey Lake before, but I wanted to make it further to Spider Lake. The friends, I should mention, were younger, but had never been...

There have been a lot of folks up this drainage this summer so I don't have a lot to add to what's already been posted. This was our first pack trip to the Uintas and it was certainly enough to whet our appetite for more. We had a late start the first day and due to the sheep grazing in the area...

I was going to wait until I had the video done for this trip to post a TR but I haven't had the time lately to work on the video so I'll just add it to the report when I get it done. I have been backpacking into this area for the past 15+ years. Always coming up the Dry Creek TH and always with...

What was going to be a backpacking trip turned into a car camp. I still need a tent for 4 that is not too heavy and the Osprey pack for my wife just showed up today. Next time we will leave the Jeep at the trail. We got to the Trial lake area early Saturday morning and I was shocked at how...

Earlier this year my Son and I were invited to join the Scout troop on their semi-annual “50 miler” backpacking trip in the Uintas. I have been wanting to do something like this for years and it sounded like fun to my son Logan, so we accepted the invite and started preparing. As things worked...

Was able to break away for the weekend and went backpacking to Dead Horse Lake. I have been going up there for about 4 years and this was the busiest I have ever seen it. Busy as in there was 3 other groups at the Lake. In the past we were lucky if we saw anyone else up there. Maybe I was just...

Re-post from my blog at www.livevicariouslythroughus.blogspot.com I've had Blacks Fork Commissary on my list of places to visit for quite a long time, so this last weekend we made it happen. It's a little over 2 hours from the Wasatch Front and isn't really near anywhere, but that's part of...

Since I bombed my attempt at hiking the Highline, I ended up with a weekend to go backpacking that I had originally penciled in as rest time after the big hike. The thought of doing a super-relaxed hike with one of my oldest friends really hit the spot so I called up Nate and we made plans to go...

This is my first trip report that I have ever written. I have been following backcountrypost.com since it began, and have been reading Nick’s trip reports of the Uintas since last year, but just had not joined yet. On July 26th through 29th I made a trip up to the Uintas and decided I would try...

On the weekend of July 20-22 I went on my second backpacking trip of the year, this time to Grandaddy Basin. I chose that area because it's one of the closest places to get into the High Uintas from Price, and it has a lot of trail and lake options. I invited Chris, and he told me about an old...

For years I've spent my summers exploring the Uintas. Checking off items on my list, one by one, rarely spending more than a 3-day weekend, but always dreaming of biting off a bigger chunk. Back in 2005, I did my most ambitious trip yet, a solo hike from West Fork Black's Fork over Dead Horse...

After spending last weekend at Grandaddy Lake with my 11yo. I needed to make good on a promise to my 6 yo. to take him camping. I had been having problems all week with a respiratory infection and not breathing well so I was looking for some place easy to get to. I took half a day off work on...

For the last couple of years I've tried to plan a backpacking trip with my family. The first year we made a short trip into the Grandaddy basin. We liked it so much that we wanted to plan a little longer trip and explore more of the area. We had planned to do that last year, but the weather...

The planning for this trip began nearly a year ago. Even the best plans have room for the unexpected. A couple of freinds and I from work thought it would be fun to plan a father son backpacking trip to Grandaddy Lake. Those who came along for the trip are myself and my oldest son Dylan, Tim and...

Not much of a trip report, but just wanted to post some pics from Ryder Lake--by far the most spectacular area I've laid eyes on in the Uintas. We were prepared for mobs--but found only one other group calling it home for the night. Definitely looking forward to exploring more of this impressive...