uintas

I'm not superstitious, but Friday the 13th proved to be bad luck. Since taking a new job a few months back, I've been looking forward to the first time off that would allow me a chance to take advantage of the favorable backpacking conditions in the Uintas this year. That came in the form of...

For Father's Day I got a new backpack, an Osprey Atmos 65, hoping I could get into backpacking without having issues like I had with my old backpack when doing the Uinta Highline last year. I responded to the invite from pixie1339 to backpack into Amethyst Basin in the Uintas. It ended up being...

This last weekend a few friends, rockiemtn42 and I decided to go backpacking in the Uinta's. Our plan was to hike into Naturalist Basin. We left about 1:30 on Friday and got to the Highline Trailhead around 3:30. On our way up the Mirror Lake Highway it was very overcast with a few sprinkles...

I had originally planned to do a quick overnight trip and visit East Slide Lake and Gates Lake in the Lake Fork Drainage of the Uintas. However, my wife wasn’t too keen on me doing a solo overnight trip. So, we reached somewhat of a compromise where I would day hike into East Slide Lake. East...

My son and I took our first backpacking trip this weekend. Being our first, I was looking for somewhere that looked relatively easy. Easy on the eyes, easy to get to, easy to find a good camp site, easy to get water, etc. You get the idea - easy :cool2:. Oh, and decent fishing too! Between...

Spent the weekend camping in Grand Daddy Basin with 14 Boy Scouts ages 14 - 18 yr old. It wasn't so bad with the boys at this age, as we were just along for supervision, and suggestions. We hiked in from the Grandview TH first time for me, and I was amazed at what a leisurely climb it was to...

So I decided to take the family camping this past weekend to the Uinta's. I was reading Summit 's post about the Fairy Forest and thought that would be cool to show my son. We headed up Friday around noon and grabbed a spot at Shady Dell. I wanted to stay higher up, but the wife gets cold easy...

Made it over to Jean Lake via the Highline Trail this past weekend. Scooted in to Scudder Lake late Friday night and were at Jean by noon on Saturday. Wonderful mid-July, I mean mid-June, conditions. Had both lakes to ourselves, with the exception to one curious yet thankfully docile marmot...

High-elevation hiking in the Uintas in mid-June... not something one can do every year. This quick out-and-back trip meant to capitalize on that. nick and a co-worker of mine both put the story of Garrett Bardsley back in my head, independent of one another. I'd covered the story when it...

September 2011 As I've whittled away at my bucket list of destination in the Uintas over the years, there have been two that always seemed to get pushed back; Red Castle and Little East Fork Black's Fork. I always envisioned Red Castle as being too busy, meanwhile Little East Fork as being so...

Well look at this. I'm posting my trip report the same day of the trip this time! It's really nice to get out on a backpacking trip Friday night and then still have most of the weekend to relax and post photos to backcountrypost. :) This trip started out all over the place. I had dreams of...

As a Boy Scout, I'd backpacked into Henry's Fork Basin with a group of about eight or 10 kids and three or four adults. We'd planned on attacking King's Peak but never even made it close, probably due to all of the three-pound bags of Twizzlers and D-cell batteries stuffed in the kids' packs...

August 2010 I had a fantastic couple of days at Kermsuh Lake. The weather was nothing shy of perfect, not a drop of rain, one day of clear blue skies and another of fluffy clouds, I almost couldn't believe it. Seems like no matter how nice the forecast is, you can always count on that afternoon...

July 2005 This is a trip I had been thinking about for a while. The route we took involves driving up the incredibly steep and rough Garder's Fork Road and then hiking overland past several lakes to Anchor Lake. There is a trail for the first mile or so but nothing after that so you have to be...

June 2007 Arrgh! This trip was brutal! It was supposed to be a short, easy one. We had planned on 5 miles in and out for a total 10 mile round trip. The USGS map shows a road going all the way to the wilderness boundary but the Trails Illustrated map shows it several miles back. I called the...

July 2007 We had originally planned a long 30+ mile 5-day trip but about a week before we found out Taylor couldn't come and we thought it would just be Audra and I. Then the day before we left Taylor informed us that he had invited Robyn and she had taken the time off work. Robyn was Taylor's...

August 2010 I took a little solo hike to Whiskey Island Lake in the Uintas on Friday. I was planning on a larger backpacking trip but the arch of my foot was hurting pretty bad so I opted for something shorter. I was thinking this was going to be just under 3 miles round trip but I ended up...

September 2010 I spent a couple of nights in the Cuberant Basin over the Labor Day weekend with some new friends. I hadn't met any of them before but it was a fun trip and always very interesting to backpack with new people. I planned on staying two nights and coming back on Sunday while they...

I'm going to start digging deep into my trip report archives this weekend. This is the first trip I ever took a digital camera on. :) June 2005 This trip started out with a completely different itinerary then it ended up with. The original plan was for a nice trip to the desert. Early June can...

June 2011 Here it is almost the end of June and I'm backpacking Shingle Creek. Not good! Don't get me wrong, I like it, but by June 26th I should be able to get into some lakes, even if there is still a bit of snow around. But for years like this, or if you have an itch to get out before the...