Exploring the Mountain West
A friend asked me to join him on a “bucket list” item — to backpack a high route through the Wind River Range, from North to South. We’ve been planning and preparing all summer and completed the trek in the latter part of August. Here’s my unusually verbose description: Day 1 (Friday) Our caravan left…
Utah has been under a heat wave this summer and it is contributing to our poor drought conditions. But I needed a getaway and have been hankering to get out to the west desert and the House Range in particular. The range is famous for its limestone cliffs and caves, and in particularly for the…
The crux of this hike, at least in winter, is the crossing of Dirty Devil River. Normally this is a low-flow river in a predominately sandy watercourse, perhaps knee deep. I planned to hike down the 6 or so miles from Burr Point, then cross the river and hike up through Happy Canyon, returning by…