wasatch

I envy and salute all of you who have been to places so much cooler than myself this year. If you are reading this and haven't checked out those posts, sheesh, read them first! This mountain that is pretty much my backyard holds plenty of allure, and one thing I love is looking up at some of...

A coworker, Scatman Jr. and I did a day hike to the top of the Pfeifferhorn on Sunday. I hadn't done this hike in four years and the last time I did, there was quite a bit of snow to contend with. I was looking forward to hiking it in dry conditions. The fall weather was absolutely perfect...

This is a bit past due -- I think we did this trip back in August-- but I'm finally got it posted on Howells Outdoors and now to get it on Backcountry Post. Back in August Chelsea and I took off for our first backpacking adventure in northern Utah. We wanted to start small, but beautiful. We...

I have had too many days at work, mingled with only a few trips, since my last post, so how about a pretty light-hearted trip report- light weight enough I had started to write this in the Micro Trip, but it was my 3 year old's first backpack after all... Let's start this report at the end...

Summer = mountains! The desert is hot and dry; the mountains are cool and lush. Simple as that. My buddies, Amanda and Caitlyn, invited me up to the Wasatch Mountains to go on a backpacking trip into the Lone Peak Wilderness. We wanted to check out White Pine Lake and Red Pine Lake -- both...

Went up to Red Pine Lake for the first time. I hiked up Friday afternoon and left Saturday morning. It is a very popular hike as I have read in some other trip reports and saw for myself. It was good for me to get out and there were some nice sights to see. The weather was perfect. Sunset...

This isn't my usual kind of trip report--kinda a lot of people around--but despite that it was a great hike. There's a group of geocachers who meet one Sunday a month to hike, usually somewhere around the Salt Lake Valley, and for years I've wanted to join up with them. This past weekend I was...

We headed up to Timpanogos a week ago - 18 July 2015. Camped at the rim of the basin, caught a wild storm and subsequently a wild sunset. There is a lot of indian paintbrush up there right now (or at least a week ago). The whole trip report is here.

Right on the heels of the recent trip and beautiful report by @Ugly, here's a report of a trip @WillisBodillus and I took up to Timp the very week after. While my pics aren't nearly as spectacular, I hope those of you viewing and reading still find them enjoyable... Since we both go by Will...

Last week I had a friend in town from Philly. I asked what he was doing Saturday and he said taking an early morning run. I told him jogging through Sandy ain't bad, it sure is not South Philly, but that I had something better. By 630am we had his rental car parked up at Alta. The whole area...

I know that all of my reports have been local, as I have been stuck close to home with work and chasing kids around on soccer fields. I love the stuff coming from elsewhere, and it should not be too many years before I am back in some of those places again. For now, I am sticking to my backyard...

First trip report. Here goes. My wife and I decided to go on a quick overnighter this weekend. It was her first time backpacking, and we had time constraints due to work, etc., so we decided to keep it local and go up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Red Pine Lake. I was a bit hesitant about the...

Sometime last year a colleague and former supervisor of mine, Steve, and I came up with an idea to do a little backpacking trip above nearby Y Mountain and go for Provo Peak. He and another friend, Larry, regularly hike the Y (a large concrete block "Y" representing Brigham Young University...

There's a great trail connecting Smuggler's Gap -- the 7800' notch in the south ridge of City Creek Canyon that is located a little ways to the east of Little Black Mountain -- with the bottom of City Creek Canyon. Although it doesn't get a ton of use most days, probably because it connects two...

On Friday, July the 3rd, my hiking partner Matt and I attempted a 16.3 mile hike beginning at the end of Millcreek Canyon, hiking up to Murdock Peak then heading west along the Millcreek Ridge to Grandeur Peak. We met at the small park at the end of Wasatch Boulevard near Parley's Canyon at...

After having drank through 7 water bottles, I decided to call it quits, and returned home, making this my first failed adventure. This is my trip report. Me and my mom biked from our home up to the Granite Flats Campground, and then we split up, and I continued up the Deer Creek to Dry Creek...

I was hoping to take each of my older girls on daddy-daughter trips in the Uintas, expecting most snow to be melted out early this year. That didn't happen. I ended up taking my youngest daughter up to nearby Silver Lake the week prior. My oldest daughter, Willow, didn't want to drive that...

At the beginning of the year, I penciled in a number of backpacking, hiking, and camping trips for 2015. For June, that included daddy-daughter trips with each of my girls and a father-sons outing. June finally arrived and with the first week, I took my four-year-old daughter, Raylee, up to...

After scoping out Twin Peaks during a Broads Fork afternoon hike a few weeks back, I came back on Sunday morning to attempt it. And while my route finding was far from perfect (or efficient), I made it to the top and was rewarded with a summit all to myself and beautiful views from all angles...

Perhaps since you can drive to the top, and even at the top be surrounded by radio transmitters, it may not truly be backcountry. However, when discussing possibilities for a quick weekend overnight hike where I had needed to be back early enough to help my parents move, the mountain behind my...