wind rivers

I got an idea to hike the Highline trail in Wind Rivers after last year's Gannett Peak hike via Tourist Creek. When it finally came to choosing a route, I ended up planning a bit more strenuous and off trail hike mapped here: http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/ViewTrip/37344 (except I wanted to...

For our yearly Wind River trip @Antlerking, Travis and I decided to go into Big Sandy. This would be my 3rd time into this area, previous times being 2008 and 2009. I usually don't like going back to the same location as there are too many places to see, but this year we had planned to hike up...

Winds Crossing - Part 1 - Route Finding, Grizzlies & Deadfall - Wild! This August, 2013 saw my mates and I finally bite the bullet, pay the indian rez. fees and walk into the northeast corner of the Wind River mountains. After 25 years of Windies exploration it is the last major chunk we had...

In late July, I made my way back out to the Winds to check out Atlantic Canyon - a pretty untravelled area in the southern winds that had been on my list for a while. @Ndheiner had gone up a few days ahead of us to do a bit of car camping and kayaking in the lakes on the Louis Lake Road...

My friend and I have long been looking for a good backpacking and fly fishing trip and finally got one in. With the help of uintahiker on here, we chose the Wind Rivers and did not regret it! Here is an email I sent to my fishing friends so I am sorry about the different text colors. I just...

This is part 2 of our 4-day trip in the Big Sandy area over the July 4th weekend. If you didn't catch the first part, you can find it below: Part 1: The Temple Part 2: The Cirque Here's a map showing the entire route. After our two nights looping up through the Temple, we were heading...

I've really been slacking on getting a trip report up for this. Here I am getting ready to head out on another trip to the Winds and I'm not even done processing photos from the last! I guess I've been slacking all around on BCP lately. We just finished a 3+ month renovation on our house and now...

I ended up with an unexpected week off after other travel plans fell through, and I couldn't think of anything more wonderful to do with my time than cross off a bucket list location - the Wind River Range. I had been reading trip reports on it and seeing gorgeous pictures for a while so decided...

All this talk about the Winds got me going to finish my video. Started our trip at the Sweetwater TH at the south end and finished at the Green River Lakes TH, 13 days and 115 miles later. Goal was to stay as near the Continental Divide ridge as reasonably as possible, mostly off trail. An epic...

I've been debating on whether or not to share this trip for a long time. This is the trip that got me into backpacking. While it was the most physically challenging trip I've ever been on (part of that being my first trip and being out of shape), and yet it was also the most awarding! I just...

Here are a few photos from our trip into Titcomb Basin this past August. HomerJ has already posted a great TR so I'll just add a bunch of photos. Enjoy Featured image for home page:

Over the Labor Day weekend, drclef, Nick S. and I headed back up north together. This time, to the Green River Lakes region in the northern Wind River Range. Our goal for the weekend was to basecamp in Beaver Park and spend a couple of days exploring the legendary Green River just a few miles...

To experience the Wind Rivers you need to backpack them. That being said, welcome to my car camping TR of the Winds! Ha! Originally this trip was going to be a backpacking trip to the Wind Rivers. The plan was to go in at Big Sandy and then head north and camp at Shadow Lake. Then at the...

PROLOGUE: Titcomb Basin has been on my "to see" list for a pretty much ever since I started backpacking. So when my buddy called me up and said he's going into Titcomb this year I jumped at the chance! We set it up for Wednesday through Sunday. As things got closer people started to drop out and...

Ndheiner and I decided we needed to start knocking out at least one epic Wind River backpacking trip each summer if we are ever going to have any chance of seeing it all before our knees give out. So this year, we decided on 4 days to the Deep Creek Lakes area east of Wind River Peak. We drove...

On July 24th my girlfriend and I set off to spend 6 days exploring (from what we could gather) some of the finer (if not most popular) terrain in the Wind River Range. It was the maiden voyage for both of us to this spectacular, glacially scoured alpine paradise. Moving to Utah two years ago...

Originally posted on my website at www.livevicariouslythroughus.blogspot.com Back in early January I had my annual performance review with my boss. Part of the performance review includes setting both personal and business goals for the upcoming year. One of my personal goals was to catch a...

I just got back yesterday from three days in the Winds with my brother. He flew in from Tennessee to do some climbing with a couple of friends, and I convinced him to do a couple of nights backpacking before the climbing started. We started from the Big Sandy Trailhead on Thursday after he...

I was able to get up to the Winds this last weekend for a few days. I had originally planned to go to a place out of the Elkhart Park TH but my dad and one of his buddies had wanted me to take them up to catch some Goldens so I found a place that was a bit shorter hike and where we could ride...

My birthday is in early July so every year I like to try to plan a nice trip to the high country over it. Typically it's been a trip to the Uintas but ever since my first trip to The Wind River Range last August, I've been dreaming of The Winds. To further change things up, I was able to...