wyoming

For our summer vacation in 2015 we decided to spend a week in August backpacking the Wind River Range in Wyoming. I have done several backpacking trips in the Winds, but I had never started from Green River Lakes (GRL)...and Tmy wife had never been to Titcomb Basin. So that was the basic plan...

I have been wanting to do a trip to the Wind River region for several years and finally made it up there the week of Aug 10. Three of us old timers from the Houston Texas area decided to brave the altitude (10,000 feet is high when one lives at 80 ft or less) and do a 3 1/2 day trip from Elhart...

I'm sure many of you have seen AdventureAlan's site ( http://www.adventurealan.com/WRHR/ ) profiling a rugged route from Green River Lakes to Big Sandy. Or maybe some of our members have done the trip? Maybe Alan is a poster here? Either way, we had hardly any experience with the Winds before...

Our third day hike on our Yellowstone trip consisted of a hike along the old Plateau / Arnica Creek Trail to Beach Lake, then following a one way marked route to Dryad Lake before exiting at the Natural Bridge Trailhead. Overview map of hike We hit the old trail about 7:30 in the morning with...

Our second day hike while in Yellowstone was a short loop of 5.4 miles to Queen's Laundry located in Sentinel Meadows which reside in Lower Geyser Basin. It's my understanding that Queen's Laundry was originally supposed to be location for a bathhouse in the early days of the Park. The...

After picking up my son at Island Park, my family along with @McGimpkins headed into Yellowstone for four nights at the Grant Village campground with the intention of doing three day hikes: the first, joined by @langutah , to Delusion Lake, the second, to Sentinel Meadows and Queen's Laundry...

I was recently in Yellowstone with my wife, son and his friend. We visited various historic sites in the woods, Turbid Lake, Heart Lake and Mount Sheridan. Day 3: It’s July in Yellowstone so we have to worry about hypothermia! It was time to leave the crowds behind and get into the woods...

I was recently in Yellowstone with my wife, son and his friend. We visited various historic sites in the woods, Turbid Lake, Heart Lake and Mount Sheridan and Electric Peak. Day 6: Finally on July 30 we were headed to Electric Peak! We got our permits at the Canyon VC and the ranger there...

7/26-29/15 Back in the spring, my friend Richard broached the idea of backpacking in the Tetons. I said I'd be down if I could get the time off. When the idea came to include summitting South Teton, I was more down. And voila it worked out that I could have a long weekend for the trip. So...

Over the past few weekends I've been in familiar areas of the Cloud Peak Wilderness doing familiar things. Thus I can't say I have the best of stories to share but I do have some pictures of what everyone sees that are pretty darn pretty. 7/16-17 I spent patrolling and doing trail maintenance...

I usually do at least one multi-day backpacking trip with my wife and a friend or two. This year turned out to be a little different. After making the Teton Crest Trail reservations my wife and I found out that we were expecting twins in October. With this in mind she, of course, would not be...

Here's a video from the trip: I went out to Windy Lake over 4th of July weekend and the trip had left a bittersweet taste in my mouth...mostly bitter though...and stinging with mosquito bites. We drove up Christina Lake Road, which turns out to be quite a rough one - glad we had the Jeep. We...

07/09-12/2015 The job of a wilderness ranger varies a lot. Sometimes it is pretty rough (like the 4th of July weekend… rain, horses, long days…) and other times it can be downright pleasant. Here at the Cloud Peak Wilderness, I find the opportunities to visit the northern end fall into the...

Greetings summer wanderers. A quick trip report about this weekend's (July 10, 2015) walkabout in the Wind River range with Underscore and his doggie Maya. We went in to examine some climbing cliffs I had heard about above the Sweetwater Gap and to generally enjoy the range. We were lured, as...

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...

7/1-7/5/15 I can hardly wait for these "special" weeks to be over and I'm just doing my job... Next weekend! The beginning of July saw the wilderness crew attending a training for two Wilderness Watch interns. I say attending because we weren't being trained, nor were we training, we were...

Finally I have some time to visit the library and utilize some internet! So I'm back in Wyoming for the summer, again patrolling the Cloud Peak Wilderness. June is fairly early in the season though so not much patrolling has happened. It's mainly been a month of trainings that didn't amount...

Trip Overview This was a nine day, vast majority off-trail, 64 mile loop beginning and ending at the Mallard Lake Trailhead at Old Faithful starting on June the 5th with @Joey . Our plan was to explore lakes and river drainages that are off the official trail system in Yellowstone along with...

I find myself sitting here stuck in Salt Lake City for the weekend. I was hoping to find temporary work around town, but nothing was available. I thought about a quick backpack into the mountains, but I'm not sure I want to sleep in the rain. So I started drinking beer, and looking through...

This post is long overdue, but I figured I would still put it up anyway, better late than never. For starters, below is a video I made of our hike, be sure to change the video quality to 1080p for better quality! Saturday August 9th: Before another year of college was under way, my friends...