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The Cecret Lake (sometimes spelled Secret Lake) trail is one of the most beautiful, fun and rewarding easy hikes in the Salt Lake area. The trail is 1.2 miles each way and gains about 450 feet in elevation.

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Thayne Peak is a knob high above Mill Creek Canyon near the Tracy Wigwam Boy Scout Camp. Because this peak is lower than the nearby peaks to the south, it makes for a good late spring hike. Because the Thayne Canyon Trail is on the north side of the mountains, almost the entire way is forested.

The trail has some nice easy level spots and some spots that are just the opposite. It all evens out to be a nice moderate trail with some astounding views. Park in the area at the top of the Sunnyside lift, and cross the road to the trailhead. It is flat for a little while and then rises up...

Sugarloaf Peak is an easily reached 11,000 ft. summit which overlooks Albion Basin, Secret Lake, and much of Utah's Alta ski resort. The easy terrain and relatively high trailhead elevation combine to make Sugarloaf Peak arguably one of the easiest of the Wasatch 11'ers to ascend.

Stewart Falls Trails is a 4 mile out and back trail located near Sundance, Utah.

Scout Falls is an excellent short destination for those who want to taste the beauty of Mount Timpanogos wilderness without an extensive hike to the summit.

On Sunday morning my twin trevor, my buddy ron, and I headed up Big Cottonwood Canyon to ski Millcreek Canyon. The chosen route up was Butler Fork and after hours of skinning up hill we got our reward! Ron the snowboarder suddenly rememberd why he moved out from the east coast decades ago...

Climbing Reynolds is as easy as.....1 .............2 ..............3 Got some footage on the way down to the next stop. Using Picasa 3 I still have issues posting it up so no hope looking at that. :( The gopro camera feature is all that worked at Big Water Gulch so I at least got a shot of...

So with some time off for the holidays I finally got around to putting a video together from my trip to Utah this past September. I'm a video editing noob, so constructive criticism is certainly appreciated. In the end, this is just a souvenir for myself. Something to remember the trip by...

An old trip report that I am moving over from my blog before I shut it down for good. Another half dozen or so like this coming soon. Sorry to clutter the place up with these old ones, but I don't want to lose them. :) ---- March 2009 This is just a short day hike from the Bonneville...

Here's another trip report from my summer of hiking for a living. Whenever I'd plan out my trails, I would try to plan hikes where I could knock out more than one trail guide at a time. This one was a perfect one for that, but was also one of the worst reminders of the year that my knee was...

With it being my 26th birthday a ski tour was in order. 1st stop was at Hectors for a free birthday steak and eggs burrito. Next stop was at the top of big cottonwood canyon at the winter closure gate of Gardsmans Pass. It's gotta be 5 o' clock somewhere! On the way up Grady was wondering...

Finally got into the higher terrain on Friday with my twin bother trevor, and my two friends Ron, and Grady. We opted to tour my favorite fork in the wasatch, Silver Fork. We started in little cottonwood canyon at Alta and skinned up Grizzly Gulch via hawkeye ridge. Soon we were at the east...

Sunday's are good, but snowy Sunday's are the best. Took the newest member of the group, Grady, and the usual clowns, Trevor and Ron, up to Catherines Pass, Dry Fork, and out Helicopter hill. A UDOT avalanche forecaster and his 2 rescue dogs went out of their way to meet the "famous"...

Here's a "catch up" report on this year's backcountry skiing adventures. With the thin amount of snow most of us are stuck riding the higher terrain, and as one avalanche observer stated "it seems the avalanche season started before the ski season". I will add last Sunday's backcountry tour in...

It was such a great day here in Salt Lake today. It was sunny with temperatures in the mid sixties, so my son and I decided to hike up Grandeur Peak via the Dragon's Tail Ridge Route. The trailhead for this route is located at the end of Wasatch Blvd just south of Parley's Canyon. This is the...

Not much of a trip report here but for the last few years my kids and I have hiked to the top of Ensign Peak on Thanksgiving Day. Now calling it a peak might be a stretch; it's more like a bump. But once on top, you have a great view to the south of the Salt Lake Valley, to the east of the...

I headed out this morning to hike up to Black Mountain which is located on the ridge south of City Creek Canyon. It is approximately 4.5 miles to the top from the trailhead (Bonneville Shoreline Trail access). After crossing the shoreline trail, I picked up an old jeep road to the west of the...