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Ugly said:
Started the year going the long way to Heughs. No summit this New Years, but it was long enough to work out the lungs and legs from this crappy flu I had.
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Hey, use your influence to get that canyon renamed Hugh's Canyon. :D

Glad to see that you are back on a trail.

I've been sicker than a dog for a week now. It started with my throat glands and eventually moved up into my sinuses. I had some severe shiver bouts last Saturday and this past Monday. I didn't know if was the flu or just a really bad cold? I did get an influenza vaccine back in October but maybe that batch didn't have the right influenza in it that is now spiking in Utah. I'm hoping by this Saturday or Sunday I'll be back to 100%. Nasty stuff!
 
Need to move away......more people youre around more you catch something.
 
scatman said:
Hey, use your influence to get that canyon renamed Hugh's Canyon. :D

Glad to see that you are back on a trail.

I've been sicker than a dog for a week now. It started with my throat glands and eventually moved up into my sinuses. I had some severe shiver bouts last Saturday and this past Monday. I didn't know if was the flu or just a really bad cold? I did get an influenza vaccine back in October but maybe that batch didn't have the right influenza in it that is now spiking in Utah. I'm hoping by this Saturday or Sunday I'll be back to 100%. Nasty stuff!
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Yuck. I was feverish for several days. It will pass.

I do want to move out somewhere remote @Bob , someday. haha
 
We had a cold front move into the Salt lake Valley over the last couple of days bringing with it the coldest temps so far this winter. So yesterday, the 19th of January, I had a cold hike to the top of the Avenues Twin Peaks with 21 degrees (wind chill of 10) at the trailhead. I got to see two coyotes on this hike, the first along the ridge to the northeast of the north twin, and a second coyote making its way through some scrub oak while on my down.

And today at 16 degrees (wind chill of 3), I hiked to the summit of Mount Van Cott. Without question, the wind chill was below zero at the top of Van Cott as the winds were stronger than at the trailhead. I didn't last long up top as I got pretty cold once I stopped going uphill. The neat thing on this hike was that I got to see a herd of elk over on the south slope of Black Mountain Ridge. The were soaking up some sunshine on this cold day.


Avenues Twin Peaks - January 19th

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South twin

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Not a lot of snow here in the foothills

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The trail that goes straight up the south twin ridge

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Common storksbill still has some fall red to it.

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Looking over at the north twin from the top of the south twin

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Burro Peak, Grandview Peak and Black Mountain

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Funky clouds over Mount Wire

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Coyote on the ridgeline

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Unfortunately, these guys are on my shit list.

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(L-R) Triangle peak, Broads Fork Twin Peaks, Mount Olympus, and North and South Thunder Mountains with Olympus Cove below

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Heading down. I like the contrast of the golden grass with the white snow

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Coyote working its way through the scrub


Mount Van Cott - January 20th

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Van Cott from the west

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Worked my way up to the old Jeep road

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Dry Canyon and the Avenues Twin Peaks, where I was the day before

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A little more snow on this one than the twin peak hike

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Summit shot. My fingers froze setting up the tripod and never really recovered

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Elk on the south slope of Black Mountain Ridge

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Zoomed in

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Back at the Sube.

And then the quickest way that I have found to warm up is to have some chips and ghost pepper salsa when I get home. Makes one forget about frozen digits. From :cold: to :hot:

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Gosh, some cold temps up north. Brrrrrr! Am hanging out down here in the desert near Organ Pipe Cactus NM. A little chilly lately, even all the way down here. Most of the winter has been wonderful. But lately the highs only in the 60s. Yesterday here in the desert it was only in the high 50s during the day and the upper 20s at night. But it is January. Stay warm everyone. Can't wait for spring and to be in the high wild and green Absarokas again.
 
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