Report on: Trip #1a from the HIGHLINE TRAILHEAD to SCUDDER, WILDER, WYMAN, & PACKARD Lakes and the beautiful Canyon of the East Fork of the Duchesne River..NEXT BACKPACK: “Lake Lorena”

Click on the following links for recent posts: INFO ON “GLITCH” & PROMISES OF SURVIVAL & PREPARATION: GEAR & FOOD VIDEOS ***************************** COALVILLE SPEECH  & INTRODUCTION TO DREAM LIST ********************************** DREAM LIST OF BACKPACKS-LAUNCH-SPOT Link–TOPO MAPS, etc. ********************************* Trip #1 REPORT: The “ACID TEST”  To East Brown Duck Basin….Success? Future? ********************************* NOTE:  My next backpack …

DREAM LIST OF BACKPACKS-LAUNCH-SPOT Link–TOPO MAPS, etc.

Click here for:INFO ON “GLITCH” & PROMISES OF SURVIVAL & PREPARATION: GEAR & FOOD VIDEOSCOALVILLE SPEECH  & INTRODUCTION TO DREAM LIST FINALLY READY TO LAUNCH SUMMER BACKPACKINGFeeling  better Friday, June 13, preparations completed I left American Fork and drove to the Forest Service Ranger Station in Duchesne to get…. Accessibility info for the South Slope of the High …

COALVILLE-SUMMIT COUNTY SPEECH YouTube videos & INTRODUCTION TO 2014 BACKPACKING

YouTube videos below….SPEECH ON APRIL 22nd, 6:30 PM Coalville, Utah – Summit County Courthouse Speech:  “My love affair with the High Uintas–Its Mysterious Past  & Present”  DONE…ONE GREAT EXPERIENCE  IN COALVILLE!YouTube Coalville Speech:PART 1: Love of outdoors…Checkered history….Introduction to Uintas…40 year detour among Mayans…2003 High Uintas Project born…27 day expedition…Beautiful Summit County…..Uinta’s Tie Hacker culture discovered….Ghost towns  PART 2: Exploring the “liveliest if not the …

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 …

High Uintas Open–YouTube videos on BACKPACKING PREPARATION — Surgery Recovery

Do you recognize this unique scene?  Something wrong with it?BACK SURGERY SAGA PUTTING ON HOLD 2012 BACKPACKING — The whole story YouTube Video #9-Part 1:  BACKPACKING 2012–SCHEDULE and PREPARE or HAVE ONE TOUGH TIMEPhoto/Essay:  #9-Part 1:  BACKPACKING  2012–SCHEDULE and PREPARE OR ELSE…….! YouTube Video #9-Part 2: Overcoming Obstacles with Nutrition/Supplements Photo/Essay: with links to all the imporant stuffPhoto/Essay… #9-Part …

BACK SURGERY SAGA–Putting on Hold 2012 Backpacking and the High Uintas Project

The NEW OBSTACLE I mention in Part 2 has me putting on hold Part 3.  Give me a week or so.UPDATE:  April 20, 2012  Scroll down to see what the specialists concluded and the treatment that will have me overcoming the “obstacle” and  backpacking still in my 77th year. May 16th UPDATE:  “overcoming the obstacle”  got a bit more …