Today’s hike was kind of a short day – Kirk had the day off but needed to be back early to babysit the grandkids. We decided to do a trail I haven’t done in a few years – the Corral
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Trips in 2025
9/6/2025-Fish Lake, Lodgepole, Red Lake, Potato Butte
Friday was Zack’s birthday so he wanted to get out in the woods to celebrate. We decided to hike the Fish Lake trail but the day ended up a lot different than I was expecting (with a REAL surprise at
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Today’s hike I had been looking forward to all week. Kirk and I had planned to go hiking – he asked where and I offered several options, including a couple of “wild” options. One of them was to hike up
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In my ongoing goal of hiking at least twice a week, today’s hike was just a pleasure hike – no work. It was supposed to be warm, and summer is quickly disappearing, so I’ve been trying to hike higher elevation
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In my discussions with other Trail Advocates, the south end of Rho Ridge has popped up a few times. I’ve hiked the northern section several times in recent years but I haven’t hiked the southern section other than the segment
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Today’s hike was an outing to enjoy the fruits of our labor. A few weeks ago, 5 of us did quite a bit of work on the Baty Butte trail. I thought it would be fun to enjoy the fruits
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Today’s hike was pretty simple – just get out in the woods for a bit. Since Thor had his mouth surgery (he got 8 teeth extracted!), I didn’t want to do anything too crazy – I’d been wanting to check
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Today’s hike was a short one – this was the last day of our family vacation – we had intended to do it the day before but it was raining – we decided to do this kind of on our
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This was a late Father’s Day hike – we celebrated Father’s Day a week late due to other conflicts. Everyone asked what I wanted to do and of course the answer was to hike, but since most of my hikes
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Today’s hike was going to be an interesting one – First, I was going to meet a potential new hiking partner and second, we were planning to do some major work on the Cottonwood Meadows trail. I knew it would
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Today’s hike would be my only opportunity to get out this week due to other commitments. I wanted to find something interesting. After looking at snow levels, I landed on hiking the upper Burnt Granite trail. The original plan was
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Today’s hike had one objective – see if we could find the remainder of the old Dickey Lake trail. We had found part of it a couple of years ago when we did a wintertime trip to Bagby. We had
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Today’s hike was kind of a spur of the moment one. I’ve been having a hard time doing my twice a week hiking since I retired (too many other things going on) – this week I realized that today was
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Note: The first part of the track is kind of messed up since my phone was in power saving mode.
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5/2-4/2025 – Owl and Fish Creek Backpack
This was my (more or less) annual backpacking trip with Carly. This was trip #21. This year, since she is in Utah for school, we did a very different trip, one that was very “Utahy”. It was in the southern
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Today’s hike was one I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I wasn’t sure how much snow we’d encounter so I didn’t know how far we’d get, but things worked out pretty well. I usually hike the Fanton trail
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Today’s hike was one of my first post retirement hikes. Originally I was thinking about hiking old BOTW, but since it was mid week and I figured no one else would be there, I decided to hike Dickey Creek. I
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Today’s hike was to celebrate my first full day of being retired. Since I can go out mid week now, I thought the Riverside trail would be a great trail to hike. I had wanted to hike it since it
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Today’s hike was a “return to the woods” hike. I had eye surgery a couple of weeks ago and was required to take it easy for 2-3 weeks. I haven’t hiked Alder Swamp since last year and I’ve been curious
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Today’s hike was kind of “get out and enjoy the nice weather” hike. We’ve had REALLY nice weather for January, although it has been cold. It is supposed to continue for part of next week and then it sounds like
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Today’s hike was a bit shorter than usual (although we still did 5 miles – and the first couple were REALLY, REALLY hard!) – we decided to hike on Sunday afternoon – Kirk had a memorial to attend and I
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