wasatch

It's been a cold March thus far in SLC, but today the sun came out, and I think the high was 44 in the valley, and almost no wind to speak of. I'll take it. :) This weekend's hike was to Pencil Point, which is a subpeak of Parley's Ridge. I haven't done this hike in ten years, and the first...

You've all seen Mount Wire several times, but this hike to the summit was my hardest ever. With all the recent snow, the last 0.5 - 0.7 miles of this hike was post-holing to the summit. It absolutely wore me out. It took me a good hour and twenty minutes to cover that last half mile. :)...

After snowshoeing along the south ridge of City Creek last week, I was pretty much obligated to hit the north side this weekend. :) An inversion has set in here across the Salt lake Valley, so it was nice to get up above it for a few hours at least. Sheila joined me on this one Passing...

I started out with micro-spikes on this hike, but soon switched over to snowshoes as I began to sink in quite a bit. That should make @kwc happy. :) I read this past week that we are having the best winter in twenty years here in SLC, and I won't argue with that. We have had storm after storm...

12 degrees at the Little Mountain Trailhead at 10:00 am this morning, as my wife and I hiked to Little Mountain for our weekend exercise. While it was cold, it was sunny for the first half of our hike which made things quite pleasant on the way up. Once we got to the top, the clouds that had...

Had the day off today, so I decided to hike up Grandeur. We've had a cold spell here in Salt Lake, and the temperature at the Church Fork Trailhead was a cozy 19 degrees this morning. :cold: When I go to the summit, I switched out lenses to a wide angle one, and used it on the way down...

Back to the foothill follies for me this fall. Yesterday I hiked to the summit of Mount Wire with my wife. We hiked up the south side of the mountain and came back down the northern most of the western ridges. Can anyone tell me why it might have been 2003 and 2016? Images on the left -...

Yesterday was my 58th time around the sun, and as I normally do, I spent the day hiking. Usually at this time of year I try and do one of the more challenging peaks in the Wasatch, and this time I chose the Pfeifferhorn. This would hopefully be my fifth time to summit the Pfeiffer over the...

On Sunday, it was time to go fetch my gallon of water and 32 oz. of Gatorade off of the Millcreek Ridge that I had stashed there two weeks ago for water bottle refills on my failed attempt to hike the entire ridge. For those interested in the hike along the eastern portion of the ridge a week...

Have you ever heard the saying "the whole enchilada?" How about "the whole nine yards," or perhaps "the whole ball of wax?" Maybe even "the whole shebang?" Those terms mean that one competes the lengthy task at hand. Well, Scatman wasn't able to pull it off. In other words, his eyes were too...

Headed out this morning to stash a one gallon jug of water, and a 32 oz. bottle of Gatorade along the Millcreek Ridge for my hike next weekend. The route to 8194 is the same as Mount Aire, except when you reach the saddle, you take a left instead of a right. We began our walk up the Millcreek...

A couple of weeks ago @Ugly invited @regehr and I to join him on a hike up the Sawmill Trail in the southern part of the Salt Lake Valley. Ugly said that he had the 4th and the 11th open if we were interested in going. I had plans in Cache Valley for the 4th, but told him that I could join him...

One of the best springtime hikes along the Wasatch Front is Dale Peak, which is located on the eastern side of Parley's Ridge, which is the ridge on the north side of Parley's Canyon. Normally, Dale doesn't get a lot of traffic, and we probably saw seven or eight people along the way - three of...

On my dad's 90th birthday, I hiked to the top of Mount Wire today. This report is actually for @TractorDoc. No need to put it on the slide show, as everyone has seen this route multiple time from me now. I should say that the lower foothills were popping with wildflowers today. It's always...

I heard on the radio Sunday morning that this was the 5th driest January in Salt Lake since records have been kept. This is probably why I've been able to hike every weekend this winter so far. Yesterday's hike was to the Dude Benchmark with sits about 5.5 miles from the Ensign Peak Trailhead...

Ho! Ho! Ho! Happy X-Moose Eve from Scataclaus! Have all the BCPers been good little hikers/backpackers and paddlers this year? I suspect that most have, though that @Rockskipper is probably walking a fine line between good and bad. :) For those who were bad in 2021, you'll have some bogs...

Headed up Mount Van Cott this morning with my daughter, who is back from Portland. Since she has been near sea level for the past four months, and I'm just off giving blood last Saturday, we chose a rather easy hike. On our way to the top, we saw 12 mule deer, heard a chukar, though we...

I've been contemplating this route for about two years now, and with the weather still holding out here in Salt Lake, I thought Saturday would be a great time to give it a try. Jeff, aka Circles, who joined me last weekend on Dale Peak decided to join me once again on this 10.8 mile loop. The...

Dale Peak was the hike of choice today. The weather here in Salt Lake was once again perfect for this time of year, with mostly sunny skies and high's in the mid to upper forties. After a nice big bowl of steel cut oats, with some raisins and cinnamon, I headed up Emigration Canyon to the...

Well, the weekend warrior was back at it today with a hike to the summit of Grandeur Peak via the Dragon's Tail Route. It was a balmy 28 degrees at the trailhead just before 8:00 am. Unfortunately there was a strong wind blowing out of Parleys Canyon which made the beginning of this hike quite...