I’ve decided to create a “second” blog to chronicle my experiences on the Pacific Crest Trail this summer. That way, I won’t crowd up these pages with daily updates from the trail. So if you are interested in following the progress, go here.
Pacific Crest Trail Journal
Wasatch Tri-Wilderness Traverse.
35 mile solo backpacking trip through Mt. Olympus, Twin Peaks, and Lone Peak wilderness areas in the Wasatch. Approximately 15,000 vertical over 3 nights.
3 days of camping at Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, hoping to photograph the elusive North Face of Denali.
A 5 day fly-in, fly-out, backpacking trip across the Sanford Plateau in Wrangell St. Elias National Park.
Responsibility is finally getting the best of me, and it’s time to find a real job again. (although “real” is fairly subjective…) I’ll be making the drive back to Alaska in a few days, which means I had exactly one last trip to wrap up my spring canyoneering season.
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve headed out to the Great Salt Lake to take some photos. I’ve always thought’ve the lake as something of a nasty swamp with few redeeming features. All it took was a few minutes browsing the Great Salt Lake group on Flickr [...]
It’s mid-December, cold in Utah, and we still haven’t received much snow in the mountains. What to do? Uh, why not Hawaii?
9 days of hiking and photography on the beautiful island of Kauai, including 4 nights on the Kalalau trail.
It’s been far too long since I strapped on a backpack and disappeared for a few days (13 months, to be exact.) I was able to break the streak with a nice 4 day affair on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Denali Highway, Fall of 2008
Made another run out to the park in early July, this time with my friends Joe and Ashley, and Jodi. Weather was spectacular, wildlife was all over the place, and the mountain was out for a few hours. I lugged my 600 through there, got some nice images of a few grizzlies.
The grizzlies [...]
Wildflowers in Timpanogos Basin.
Mt Agassiz viewed from Wilder Lake.
Friday night, Evan and I headed up into the cirque of Lone Peak. Neither of us had been there before, so we figured it was a worthy adventure before Evan’s big wedding day in a few weeks. We hit the Jacob’s Ladder trail around 5:45, hoping to be in the cirque shortly around sunset.
The [...]
Utah Valley from Cascade. Hands down, this peak has the best views of the Valley, unobstructed in nearly every angle.
Panoramic view from the Summit of Box Elder Peak. Silver Lakes Flat and Tibble Fork Reservoir are in the valley to the left. Timpanogos in the center, Utah Lake to the right.
Mt Nebo at sunrise.
Timpanogos, Emerald Lake, and Hidden Lakes Cirques.
Provo Peak (furthest to right) from the Rock Canyon Overlook.
