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One of my favorite hike. It started off with a beautiful sun and then rain and then hail. I actually ended up getting stitches on my leg due to losing my balance so I named my scar "claws." Trying to stop the bleeding. Found a shelter and waiting for the hail to stop.

The the summit provides a birds-eye view of the area above Park City, the Heber Valley, Mt Timpanogos, and the upper Big Cottonwood Canyon and LittleCottonwood Canyon areas. Very cool hike. Featured image for home page:

Red Pine Lake is a 7.3 mile out and back trail located near Sandy, Utah that features a great forest setting. The trail is primarily used for hiking and is accessible from June until October.

Hard hike and lots of scrambling. The Pfeifferhorn is located in the most isolated part of the Lone Peak Wilderness Area. There is no easy route to the summit, all approaches involve a minimum of 4 1/2 miles of trekking and over 3700' of elevation gain. A round trip from the White Pine...

This hike can be confusing when you look at top and you are trying to figure out which is Obelisk to summit. The Obelisk is a smaller mountain, located north of the Pfeifferhorn, in the Central Wasatch Mountains. The environment surrounding the Obelisk is some of the most astounding and scenic...

Lake Mary Trail is a 2 mile out and back trail located near Salt Lake City, Utah that features a river and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for cross country skiing & hiking and is accessible year-round.

This is one of my favorite hike. Devil's Castle is a dark, rugged peak that rises above Cecret Lake in Albion Basin high above Alta Ski Resort. Albion Basin is a beautiful place and Devil's Castle provides the ultimate backdrop. The rock of Devil's Castle is of high quality and is surpassed only...

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.

7.18.14 featuring @WillisBodillus , @WasatchWill , @Tess , and @Mike K

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...