A Deep Dive Into The Uintah Wilderness
Thursday, June 11, 2015 THIS ESSENTIALLY WILL BE MY LAST UPDATE AS SNOW HAS BASICALLY MELTED AWAY ON Wolf Creek Pass & Bald Mt. Pass OPEN! OPEN! OPEN! GET OUR BACKPACKS READY, as it won’t be long!NOW OPENHades Canyon and the Grandview Trailhead Road, “The Gateway to the Grandaddies” Just receivcd a report that the road to the Grandview …
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December 6, 2014 – SaturdayCOMING: FIRST: A final combined Photo/Essay & SECOND: A YouTube video of 8 exploratory trips to discover and unravel thisHEROIC PIONEER ENDEAVOR WITHOUT WHICH PROVO, & SPRINGVILLE TOO, MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN BUILT……at least not as quickly and easily!******************UPCOMING TOO…A photo/essay describing one of those trips: A SURVIVAL STORY THAT SAVED MY LIFE & …
SPOT TRACKING Final LAUNCH SITE SEARCH October 11th & l7th weather permittingClick here for PREVIOUS REPORTS, PHOTO/ESSAYS & YouTube VideosTrip #10 – Elk Hunt on Mt. Nebo from Monday Oct 6 on….report SOON!SPOT TRACKING REPORT ON RECENT —Friday Oct. 3 EXPLORATION ON SLIDE MT. …SOON!NEW POST: September 23, 2014NOT THROUGH YET……For nearly the last two months I’ve …
Click here for Recent photo/essays, & YouTube videos UPDATE: Saturday, Aug. 9thAs an old geezer trying to keep alive…..I’ll keep moving today focusing on the recent objective…and do a little to maintain my conditioning for a scheduled High Uinta backpack with my buddy Ted Packard & son, Mike. Rest assured the HIGH UINTAS WILDERNESS PROJECT is …
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PREVIOUS POSTS” Trip #4 ROCK CANYON; Trip #3 LAKE LORENA WHERE EAGLES DARE! This is the title of one of Clint Eastwood’s great movies.ATTEMPT #2: The weather is a bit questionable but will attempt to do it on Friday & Saturday, August 1st & 2nd.WILL DO Trip #5: PIONEER TIMBER SLIDE… SPOT TRACKING ATTEMPT #1 MADE: …
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Mt. Agassiz at sunset over Wilder Lake A TEEZER: On the photo/essay on Trip #1a “ACID TEST #2” to Scudder, Wilder, Wyman & Packard Lakes and the beautiful Canyon of the East Fork of the Duchesne River now on the Home Page I tell the story from a new “High Uinta Friend” of “SILVER FOUND ON …
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HUGE GLITCH!!!…June 3, 2014The MIRROR LAKE SCENIC BYWAY has been open for more than a week and the Uintas are thawing out…..moving closer launch of my backpacking schedule…. but……….I made a huge miscalculation accepting a chemotherapy treatment for skin cancer from neck and shoulders up….& .am suffering the burning pains of “hell” for it and …
EXERCISE WITH PURPOSE For my 79th year, backpacking in the High Uintas requires good physical conditioning. Seasoned hikers like me have to work hard at getting in good enough shape to do it, and then we have to be careful to not lose it–which happens quickly if we don’t work at it. In my case …
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 …
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MY PARTICIPATION ON TWO KSL PODCASTS AVAILABLE: May 4th — 1st hour, 16:53-27:00 minutes May 18th — 1st hour, 22:12-25:40 LINK TO PREVIOUS POSTS…NEW MIRACLE LIFE…SPRING..GO HIKING WITH KIDS! NOW TO THE “OPPS MATTER OF LIFE and DEATH” and MORE SPRING COMEBACK MIRACLESNote: Further along where I mention the matter of “life and death” I’ll …
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