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ON HOLD…THE DREAM SCHEDULE…+ NEW BALANCE STRATEGY….PREPARE VIDEO #1



Once you are working on that EVERY DAY, add to it the ideas in the 2nd PREPARE YouTube video:
Note:  keeping in mind that in 2012 I hadn’t undergone hip replacement surgery that freed me from pain and gave me NEW LIFE…but the supplements & suggestions are very valid.


Then..
…KEEP FROM GETTING CABIN FEVER DURING THE LONG, COLD WINTER by

OPENING YOUR EYES with the following video.

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YouTube video #6-2013 BIG FOOT up Little East Fork?

The Last Backpack?…..to give BIG FOOT one more chance to find me to take his “Family Portrait.”

From August 13-17 I accomplished this backpack up mysterious Little East Fork of Blacks Fork, up over 11,742 foot high Squaw Pass and down to Oweep Basin’s 11,300 ft. high Porcupine Lake where I caught the most colorful Eastern brook trout I have ever caught. Slow acclimatization to the alpine elevations–that has become a problem I have had to work patiently with in my 78th year, had me taking longer (3 days) than hoped for to get to Porcupine Lake.   This forced me to forget my plan of continuing over Porcupine Pass to test the waters of 3 no-name lakes in the upper Garfield Basin. Likewise I had to cancel my plan of going in  the other direction to Crater Lake.  Thus, the decision to go back over Squaw Pass and down Little East Fork with the idea of giving BIG FOOT another chance to find me. This resulted in two incredible BIG FOOT related experiences shown in this YouTube video.  ENJOY!
NOTE:  Going alone had me taking all the following precautions:  (1.) Topo map and route posted on my website;  (2.) Using daily my SPOT Tracker so all would know I was alright and exactly where I was on Google Earth;  (3.) Having a SKYCALL satellite phone for emergencies and for reporting in on KSL Outdoor Radio;  (4.) Carrying all the stuff needed for “old guy”  emergencies, even to suture and treat a  wound and more;  and (5.) always hiking with great caution realizing I couldn’t afford to take a mis-step or make a mistake!

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What now?…..CROW BASIN and the Pioneer “YEEHAW TRAIL!”

WHAT NOW?   

On Thursday, August 1st, at NOON  I will be speaking at the monthly meeting of the Wyoming Historical Society at the County Museum in Evanston on:
“The TIE HACKERS:  Unsung American Heroes without whom the West might not have been won!”

 Then do research at Dubois, Lonetree, Burntfork, the Site of the 1st Mountain Man Rendezvous on the High Uinta’s Henrys Fk., then on to Manila and to the South Slope of the High Uintas in Vernal and the Uinta Basin.
Click here if you want to follow me…Spot Tracker Trail

SCROLL DOWN FOR THE CROW BASIN ADVENTURE

Thankfully I withstood the “ACID TEST” and had one great backpack in the High Uintas Wilderness, now having explored all the drainages.  In my mind I did it in honor of the Utah Pioneers–for July 24th, and especially my great-grandmother, Alice Brooks (Andersen), survivor of the Martin Handcart Company.  As it worked out it was this  incredibly faithful and courageous 21 year old, and companions, who inspired me, in my 78th year,  to  
“NOT GIVE IN,”  rather pass the test and finally make it to CROW  BASIN.

This “historic YouTube video” is the CORRECTED, IMPROVED and ENHANCED version.

MUCH WAS EXPERIENCED,  and MUCH WAS LEARNED ENRICHING MY LIFE and I believe my YouTube video report will be WORTHWHILE FOR ALL–and you will meet 4 new HIGH UINTA FRIENDS.

For more information and great photographs of CROW  BASIN, plus some very valid opinions of one of the new High Unta Friends, Darren McMichael, go to his website at: http://www.outdooradventuresutah.com/
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NOW THE ACID TEST…Crow Basin!…YouTube Video #2-2013 Exploring MYSTERIOUS MIDDLE FK of BLACKS FK and BOB’S LAKE

From July 19-24  I work on exploring CROW BASIN – part of the smallest drainage in the High Uintas between the Yellowstone and Uinta Rivers on the South Slope.

  I had to move the schedule ahead 1 day.  I will leave for Duchesne on Thursday the 18th, to consult with the Forest Service, and hope to be on the trail on the 19th and call KSL Outdoors Radio on the 20th to report my progress.

 If interested see the map and you can even watch the YouTube Video of my 2011 effort to get there.  You can follow me at SPOT tracking.    

 I will begin the exploration with an “OK” when I leave the car.  Thereafter I will end each day with an “OK”  when I set up camp, and at the end of the exploration when returning to the car.  If in the middle of any day an “OK” appears, it will be because of wanting to mark some special location.

Below is friend Jonathan Jaussi’s aerial photo of the area:

YouTube Video #3-2013 Searching for the Hilliard Flume Ghost

YouTube Video #2-2013 Exploring Middle Fork of Blacks Fork.  

See at the end a whole bunch of new incredibly beautiful and handsome HIGH UINTA FRIENDS

 

Sorry about the cover photo.   I wasn’t given much of a choice, but it is an interesting Google Earth view of one of the 14 tie hacker sites I found, mapped, photographed, measured and dated.  Learn more in this video about these touch guys without whom the West wouldn’t have been won!

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MADE IT!….1st 2013 Backpack–Warmup in THE GRANDADDIES

BACKPACK #2 Middle Fork of Blacks Fork
I will likely be on the trail by Wednesday, June 26, and first be mapping and photographing all Tie Hack sites, each with SPOT OK, and hopefully by Friday or Saturday, hike up to above timberline Bob’s Lake and then explore two other small lakes in the drainage.  I will then move on to Backpack #3 and advise.
SPOT TRACKER LINK

“MADE IT….NOT WALKING LIKE A PENGUIN OR A DUCK….ANYMORE!”

  Here’s the report,  with a YouTube video

BACKPACK #1 – The Grandaddies, Palisades Lake, 
and an Introduction to
The Most Unique Museum West of the Mississippi

 CAME BACK WITH SOME INCREDIBLE TROPHIES!!!!

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1st  2013 BACKPACK –Warm-up in THE GRANDADDIES

On Wednesday, June 12th, a Wilderness trail crew will head up the Hades Canyon trail.  I’ll give them one day to clear fallen timber from my path and head up the trail on the 13th.  The road up Hades Canyon is open to the Grandview Trailhead.  No word on conditions but the word is out that we are in for the driest season in 10 years, and so the trail should be passable, even though perhaps a bit wet.  
 In 2007 I made my first trip to the Grandaddies on about June 15th, and it was dry and dusty.  That trip was made with my “football ankle” reconstructed and held together with 3 screws and a tendon transplant.  This time I’ll be doing it with a new titanium hip–done 2 months ago, but now without pain anywhere for the first time in 30 years!  I’m excited to say the least to be doing this in my 78th year, when just a few short months ago I was resigning myself to be a cripple.
I’m planning on 4-5 days my objectives being:  The native cutthroat spawn on the west side of Grandaddy Lake, and Palisades, Lost and Powell Lakes.
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Video #14-Part 3 COMEBACK therapy on Y MOUNTAIN and EAGLE PASS

This  newYouTube video slide show not only demonstrates my version of therapy to comeback from back surgery and a crippled left leg, but shows the excitement of another of our Wasatch Front trails–to Y Mountain, and on to Eagle Pass and Slide Canyon.  I also tell you the pioneer story of why it is called Slide Canyon–the little known history of a 1.1 mile long lumber slide the Provo pioneers built from the edge of Maple Flats down to the Valley. You will also see a few trophy Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep, some incredible deer hunting, and a trophy coyote from Maple Flats.

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PREVIOUS VIDEOS OF THIS SERIES:

New YouTube Video #14-Part 3 COMEBACK therapy on Y Mountain
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YouTube Video #13–MY COMEBACK: Part 2 SLATE CANYON therapy!

THESE YOUTUBE VIDEOS TELL THE TALE OF WHY I’VE BEEN OUT OF THE INTERNET SPOTLIGHT AND OFF OF KSL OUTDOORS RADIO FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS AND WHAT I’M DOING TO MAKE A COMEBACK OVERCOMING CRIPPLING NERVE DAMAGE FOR THE 2013 BACKPACKING SEASON.

1.  Previous YouTube video #12: COMEBACK IN MY 78th YEAR–Part 1
The Bonneville Shoreline Trail

NOTE:  If you enjoyed  this website click on WHAT NOW?

2.  Below:  Part 2–Therapy up SLATE CANYON