wasatch

Here are a few pic’s from my July hike on the Wellsville Mountain’s – Cache Valley, Utah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellsville_Mountains: "While only moderately tall, they are particularly narrow. For this reason, it is often claimed they are one of the steepest mountain ranges in North...

It felt great, albeit exhausting, to bag Mt. Waas a couple of weeks ago. I sought out more fulfillment and punishment this past weekend with a more difficult hike to the summit of Mt. Nebo, which is the highest point in both the Wasatch Mountain range and Utah County at 11,928' in elevation...

I hiked with some members of the Wasatch Mountain Club this past Saturday to the top of Sundial Peak located up Big Cottonwood Canyon. The trail starts at the Lake Blanche trailhead and is approximately 4.7 miles to the top of Sundial - so about 9.5 miles round trip. We made our way to Lake...

Thought I'd post another little TR from one of my recent work hikes. I'm finally down to 20 trails left to do after completing a total of 100 guides now! Woohoo! The 100th trail was Willow Heights up in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Talk about an awesome little hike. Relatively little use, an insanely...

Well, today was the day I was going to start the 63+ mile hike from Summit Park to Provo I had been planning all spring. I had gotten time off work in hopes that this would be a pleasant week for the trip. Not too hot, not too cold. Then that which shall not be named hit the area yesterday...

Continuing on my trend of posting trip reports from some of my recent work hikes. This one turned out to be a real gem. It's located in the foothills above Centerville in Centerville Canyon. The trail follows an old broken pipeline before meeting up with Deuel Creek and following it about .7...

Audra and I hiked Timpanogos Cave last week. We did it on a weekday to avoid the crowds. Boy was I glad we got our tickets in the morning when the switchbacks were still mostly in the shade! Turned out to be an awesome hike. We raced up the trail pretty quick and were able to get into an earlier...

I hiked to the Living Room above Salt Lake a few weeks back. Great little hike with about 1,000 feet of elevation gain in 1.25 miles. The network of trails leading up to it is a little convoluted but not too bad if you know what you're doing. I'll be posting a trail guide for this one later on...

Audra and I hiked Stairs Gulch in Big Cottonwood Canyon a few weeks back. What a nice little hike and so close to home. The trailhead is only 2.8 miles up Big Cottonwood, just across the street form the Storm Mountain Picnic Area. The trail is a bit steep and rocky but not too bad. It picks up...

Yesterday, I wanted to attempt a summit of Provo Peak via Slate Canyon right out my front door since a trailhead for Provo Peak exists right at the top of Slate Canyon. According to maps, there is no easy path leading right out of Slate and up to the Provo Peak parking area on Forest Road #27...

Quickie TR. "The sleigh runner is significant because for decades local farmers have used it as a barometer of sorts to determine if there is enough water to irrigate crops for the rest of the year." (from this article). Knocked this peak out today. Parking at Granite Flats was a fiasco due to...

Woke up bright and early on Sunday morning and drove to the Butler Fork Trailhead in Big Cottonwood Canyon to meet a group of hikers at 5:00 am. The group consisted of six hikers from the Wasatch Mountain Club and was led by a gentleman named Sam Grant. Sam had hiked the route the previous...

Tess and I were needing a quick getaway. We tried to hike this loop last week, but we didn't make it in time. Since we didn't make it the week before, we wanted revenge, and we decided to make an overnighter of it. Friday evening before we left, it started to rain. We were questioning if we...

We wanted somewhere close that we could backpack to and stay over night, so we decided on Lake Blanche. The night before leaving we ended up deciding to just hike up there without staying the night due to everyone's concern on how much snow would be up there still. The hike up wasn't too...

I wandered up Mount Olympus yesterday as I begin to get in shape for my Wildcat Ridge hike on the 25th of May. I arrived at the trailhead at approximately 8:30 am with a slight breeze blowing from the east. I've packed my day pack with 3 liters of water (1 frozen), 1 liter of Gatorade , my...

Towards the end of September I wanted to get one more over nighter in before fall set in. My co-worker and I had talked about going backpacking together all year long and we finally decided it was that weekend or it wasn't going to happen. We wanted to head up to the Uintas since he had never...

By the time the middle of December rolled around I was going stir crazy. I had me a case of big city cabin fever. Between a holiday retail job and school I'd not been able to enjoy any of my bread and butter since October, far too long for me. So when a friend of mine mentioned he was free...

I recently had the pleasure of my first visit to the famous Fifth Water hot springs. We had tried to do the hike a week earlier, but thanks to crappy trail guides I found online, we had to come back. The sources I found on the web indicated that with 4WD you can drive all the way to the...

On Christmas day, my wife, Fender, and I decided to snowshoe from Pine Hollow to Tibble Fork (the same route we plan on camping at next week.) We parked one car at Tibble Fork Res, and took the other car to Pine Hollow to begin our trek. We started at 1:30 PM. In the parking lot, we saw a...

My dog, Fender, and I headed up AF Canyon to do some snowshoeing today. Please excuse the poor photos, I'm no pro, and all I had was my cell phone. My goal was to hike from the Pine Hollow trailhead to the summit (via the singletrack) and to return via the road. We started out at Pine hollow...