Best of 2019

Wow loving all these inspiring beautiful highlights from 2019. Keep them coming!
 
2019 was a great year for adventuring. My favorite memories from 2019 include: climbing up Mt Whitney up the mountaineering route in the snow in June, climbing granite peak in Montana up a snow chute in August, climbing Bonney Pass in the titcomb basin in August, visiting red castle in the Uintas for the first time and climbing Wilson and Powell, and finishing my goal of climbing all the wasatch eleveners.


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The final 400 below the summit of Mt Whitney
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Our beautiful campsite in the beartooths in the sky top lakes area on our way to granite peak.
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The beautiful view from granite peak
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The beautiful lone elk lake in the beartooths.
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Always love to visit island lake and introduce the beautiful titcomb basin area to a friend for the first time.
0AA82C68-FCB0-4188-9D9F-A223C06CFE4C.jpeg The beautiful view from Fremont peak. On this trip I got to take a friend up to fremont peak for his first time and my third
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I’ve wanted to hike clear to the end of the titcomb basin for quite some time and stand on the top of Bonney pass. This is the beautiful view of Gannett peak from Bonney pass
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beautiful view looking back down the titcomb basin from the top of Bonney pass.
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The lovely red castle reflecting nicely in lower red castle lake.
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Powell peak was also reflecting nicely in lower red castle lake. We got to climb Wilson and Powell on this trip

A27A0EA7-386E-4C34-83AC-761206252328.jpegView of upper red castle from Wilson.
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View looking back at lower red castle from Powell.
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October 2016 I climbed my first wasatch elevener mt Timpanogos. I have been working on climbing all of them and was happy to finish my goal in October of 2019.

My last eleveners included some on the cottonwood ridge, Mt timpanogos ridge, and the Mt nebo ridge.

On the cottonwood ridge I needed sunrise and dromedary. This is a view of sunrise and the broads fork twins from dromedary.
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Next I had some unfinished business near mt timpanogos so we did the timp traverse from north timp to south timp. View looking back towards north timp from south timp.
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Then last but not least I had to get south and middle nebo. South, middle, and main nebo can all be seen here from the saddle on Andrews ridge.
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2019 was a most wonderful year for adventuring. Looking forward to seeing what 2020 brings and more of your inspiring posts and pictures.
 
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So here are some of my favorites

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the morning after a snowstorm

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twisted and convoluted

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ephemeral waterfall in Zion

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Selfie at the Subway entrance

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beam from above

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summer fun

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Pine Valley Peak

Back home in Hawai'i:

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Pele's hair (volcanic glass) on lehua flowers

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summer adventures:

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Cedar Breaks

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Yellowstone - Great Fountain Geyser at sunset

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Madison Junction

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Castle Geyser

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Wildflowers in Yellowstone

Finally autumn

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Fall and Winter and winter storms

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Court of Patriarchs, Zion

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snowshoeing Northgate Peaks, Zion

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Northgate Peaks, Zion

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Bryce Canyon

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Snow hike to the West Rim, Zion

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Yellowstone

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frosted trees, Yellowstone

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Northern Range, Yellowstone

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skiing Yellowstone

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sunrise Yellowstone

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River Otter

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Coyote in Yellowstone

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wolves

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wow, I did not post anything here

So here are some of my favorites

i-PT7hP3H-XL.jpg

the morning after a snowstorm

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twisted and convoluted

i-p3HMxK5-XL.jpg

ephemeral waterfall in Zion

i-g37J4Pp-XL.jpg

Selfie at the Subway entrance

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beam from above

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summer fun

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Pine Valley Peak

Back home in Hawai'i:

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i-2txK7Sw-XL.jpg


i-fnVppjk-XL.jpg


i-hskTkvF-XL.jpg


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Pele's hair (volcanic glass) on lehua flowers

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summer adventures:

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i-qgm6Psw-XL.jpg


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Cedar Breaks

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Yellowstone - Great Fountain Geyser at sunset

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Madison Junction

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Castle Geyser

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Wildflowers in Yellowstone

Finally autumn

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i-MFj2vVr-XL.jpg


i-vpB922H-XL.jpg


Fall and Winter and winter storms

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Court of Patriarchs, Zion

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snowshoeing Northgate Peaks, Zion

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Northgate Peaks, Zion

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Bryce Canyon

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wintry%20zion%20copy-XL.jpg

Snow hike to the West Rim, Zion

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buffalo%20ranch%20at%20night%20copy-XL.jpg

Yellowstone

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frosted trees, Yellowstone

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Northern Range, Yellowstone

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skiing Yellowstone

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sunrise Yellowstone

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River Otter

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Coyote in Yellowstone

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wolves

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Beautiful pictures!! Love the Zion and Hawaii ones..
 
There are some amazing photos here!
Here are a few from some of my trips in 2019, and these were all taken with my super fancy iPhone 8:

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Quiet Lake in the White Clouds, Idaho


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Old bridge from the logging days in Idaho


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Favorite nap spot in 2019, Boulder Chain Lakes, Idaho


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Favorite campsite in 2019, Chamberlain Lake, Idaho


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And my favorite beach off the beaten path in Hawaii...Nanakuli Beach
 
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