Windrivers

Well I just wanted to post a few more photos of the trip.


Here is a part of the group (from left to right) Kit (Glyn), Cory, Jason, Sheralyn, Allen, Lorin

Evan and Craig

Brian

Windrivers

Here are just a few pictures from my trip to the Windrivers. The highest point I got to was 11790 ft. peak on the continental divide.

Grandaddy Basin

Just a few pictures from a weekend in the high Uintah wilderness. This is a special place for me. It is where my first backpacking trip into the high country happened and where I realized that I loved being alone in the wild.

This is a view of Grandaddy Basin from Hades Pass a saddle you climb over to get into the basin from the Grandview trail.


Nate trying out Betsy Lake.





After spending our first night next to a group of inconsiderate, noisy idiots we decided to go cross country and try out our orienteering skills. We did spend an hour wandering around semi lost for an hour after we shot past one of the lakes we were heading to but we eventually found our way to Sonny Lake. That night was cool, breezy, peaceful and quiet.


An unnamed lake north of Mohawk Lake - just after the rain.


A fish?


A view of the canyon on the drive out.

Havasupai - People of the Blue Green Water

Michael and I just got back from Havasupai last Tuesday night. What an amazing experience. I will post more photos soon.

Camping

Nate and I went out camping again. This time we went to the west desert. We camped southwest of Tooele. In the morning we drove west on the Pony Express Road until we reached the geode beds. It was desolate and barren and stark and beautiful.

Camp was fun because I tried out my ultralight tent set up. Basically an umbrella with a ground cloth. It cuts the weight of the tent almost in half and for one person it has plenty of coverage. Bugs are another story.

On the Way to Jackson

Just a quick pic from my trip to Jackson Wy. It was a beautiful drive both ways but I only stopped once to photograph. I always regret not taking more photographs. I use to think that it was the cost of the film that prohibited me from being more liberal with my shots but now, with a digital camera, I realize it is the sorting and editing task when I get home that I don't like. Why take ten when one good one is all I really want.

Antelope Island

About two months ago I took this picture from my balcony. Sometimes the inversion is just about unbearable. I wish on days like these I was on the beach in Hawaii.






Five days ago I took this photo from Antelope Island. This reminds me of all the reasons I love the Salt Lake Valley. This is just 20 min from my driveway.

Breathtaking.

Nate and I went out to the island for a winter camping trip. Friday afternoon there where whiteout conditions on the drive up to Antelope Drive. I admit I was wondering if we were going to have a good experience. Just as the sun began to set the clouds broke. The western sky was awash with color and the lake like glass as we drove over the causeway.

It was a perfect night.



We sat by the fire talking for several hours. We ate a few hot dogs and climbed into our bags. We learned from our last winter trip and had better ground pads this time to insulate us from the ground. Nate tried out hand and toe warmers for the night which I think he liked. I filled a Nalgine bottle with boiling water, wrapped it in a sock and stuck it between my legs (to warm the blood in the femoral artery). I slept really well. No cold at all.

We woke to deep blue skies and 25ºF.


This was the view from the door of my tent. That much uninhabited space always stirs something in me.

I cooked breakfast in the morning. Now that I'm on the south beach diet (which is really just a program for eating healthy) I have to watch what I eat so we had eggs, turkey bacon, bran muffins and kiefer(thanks dal). We spent the day wandering around exploring this or that and taking pictures. We had buffalo burgers for lunch at a little place on the island.







One quick note about the picture above. Even though the lake has an average of 15% salinity it still froze over in some areas when we were having sub 0 nights. These great shifting islands of ice are the last vestiges of that time.