wasatch

I have been doing lots of peak bagging latley and have been having canyon withdrawls. I haven't had a decent canyon trip for a month, hoping to get out in the next few weeks. Untill then I heard of this little canyon in Sandy that only takes a few hours and has some sweet little raps in...

I haven't done a Utah post for a while, so since I've been out a time or two recently, here's another one. Posted from my blog at www.livevicariouslythroughus.blogspot.com Last Monday my wife and kids were up at Bear Lake, so I had a free evening to go hiking. It didn't take me long to...

July 3 Instead of fighting all the idiots for a spot to watch the Logan fireworks this year a friend and I decided to hike Mt Naomi as it was the full moon! We didn't leave Logan until almost 10pm and got back to Logan just before 3am! It was an absolute blast! The moon lit up everything! It...

On the 26th, a friend and I hiked Timp, starting at the Timpanooke Trailhead and finished at Aspen Grove. I had never done the "cross-over" as I'll call it, and knew that it would make for a long day. But in the end, it was a great experience and I can't say that I'll ever want to do that again...

I was in the area and decided to hike the Grotto Trail. It is a short hike up to the waterfall but worth checking out. I passed two other groups on their way out and had the falls all to myself. I tried taking some longish exposure pics. Not as good as some I've seen...

Alene and I were able to celebrate our 7 year anniversary by doing a hike up Little Cottonwood canyon called Red Pine Lake. Neither of us had done it before so it was fun to have 6 hours to ourselves to hike without kids or anything else to slow us down. The trail was really nice and for about...

Bill and I had talked about doing this for quite a while but we didn't want to do it on a weekend and I usually had work issues that made it tough for me to pull it off on a week night. But on the spur of the moment, we decided to finally do it. We met up at my place in Cottonwood Heights...

Wow we had some fun weather over Memorial Day weekend; it made backpacking a little more interesting. We were going to start this trip on Saturday but due to weather we waited until Sunday to start. We tried to get out a few times Sunday afternoon, the first time we got of the he put our packs...

MotionX Track: Aspen Grove (one-way) I love hiking Timpanogos. I wanted to check things out this afternoon, but didn't get to get out as early as I intended due to work, and also because Timpanooke TH was closed, and I didn't find out until I was heading up to the Ranger pay station. So, we...

We spent part of a Saturday hanging out at Crystal Hot Springs with our friends the Beatty's along with a few other members of their extended family. It was actually a lot funner than I thought it would be, but I'm sure the water slide helped :-). Matt Beatty is a new member of the forum and I...

On March 10, 2012 a group of Boy Scouts I'm an assistant to with parents and leaders went to Aspen Grove, above Sundance, Utah to build snow caves to sleep in the following week - March 16-17, 2012. Aspen Grove is an easy find - travel past Sundance Resort on up past the ranger pay station...

After work I met up with Alene at the Big Cottonwood Canyon parking lot and we drove up canyon with the intention of doing a short hike with Bailey. Alene was 5.5 months pregnant so we weren't going to do anything hardcore (plus bailey was with us, so we had to go at her pace). We decided to...

Caiden was working toward his year-round camper merit badge during 2011 and during the football season we had a hard time staying consistent, so we had to get in a few trips toward the end o the year. In late October we met up with my dad in Mapleton Canyon, which is a 5-10 minute drive from...

We love Maple Canyon because it's relatively close place to feel away from the world (despite it's over-crowdedness with climbers). This was Fathers Day weekend and we had planned a trip with a few members of my family (which can still be a lot) and we also invited the Beatty Family along, both...

Alene, April, and Bill had planned a backpacking trip up to the top of Mt Timpanogos over a weekend we did not have Caiden, however I had a football game to coach that Saturday and opted to back out of going with them. I was a little jealous because I had not had a chance to try out our new...

We took advantage of an actual day of nothing to do (it was a Sunday). We drove up Big Cottonwood Canyon and over guardsman pass down into Heber Valley, then on over to Sundance where we visited some of their booths they had set up for a fall festival, then rode the ski lift up and hiked over to...

This is a 6 mile RT hike up behind the backside of Mt Raymond in the Wasatch Mountains. We had originally intended to do the hike up to the top of Gobblers Knob, which is the highest point between Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons, but I was really sick on this hike and just didn't have the...

After having visited this area last month we decided we wanted to do a quick get away back up to camp along the Nebo loop again. We headed on up on Saturday morning and found a campsite relatively close to where we camped last time. As we drove in we saw a LARGE group of camping trailers 1/2...

On Saturday Alene and I rented two backpacks from the U of U's recreation store for $12.50 total which was a great deal because she's a student there in the MBA program. We packed them up and met Alene's sister April and her husband Bill (along with my new nephew Lanik) and drove up Provo Canyon...

This is the first hike Alene and I have done as a married couple. We've been really busy with school and work and took some time to do this nice little day hike up to Lake Blanche. I'm terribly out of hiking shape, having not been much of a hiker before, so I had to adapt. This hike starts at...