Ryan Jordan

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High Uinta Wilderness – Day 9: 21.Aug.2014

21.Aug.2014 – Rainbow Lake This morning I awoke early to cloudy skies, a light fog on the lake surface, and the chattering of fastidious chipmunks and squirrels preparing their stash for the oncoming winter. I watched a pair of deer – a large mule buck and his doe – meander out of the woods on […]

High Uinta Wilderness – Day 8: 20.Aug.2014

20.Aug.2014 – Four Lakes Basin Last night came with a lot of steady, rousing, cold rain. It was the first night of the trip where I slept chillier than I’d like. In the middle of the night I slid on (slinked into?) a pair of polypropylene see-thru tights. They constitute my base layer bottoms. They […]

High Uinta Wilderness – Day 7: 19.Aug.2014

19.Aug.2014 – A Cold Front in the High Uintas Late last night high winds and the disappearance of the stars signaled the onset of a cold front that was predicted yesterday by high cirrus clouds streaking across the Uinta sky. This morning it is 40 degrees (*F) and raining, and we are engulfed in the […]

High Uinta Wilderness – Day 6: 18.Aug.2014

18.Aug.2014 – Alone on the Rock Creek Shelf I find it kind of funny that most guidebooks to the Uintas calls anything more than 10 miles from the trailhead “remote”. However it didn’t really dawn on me until this trip. We’ve only seen a handful of people, and only then in a single place (Dead […]

Photo from our camp this morning at Reconnaissance Lake

Here’s a live photo from our camp this morning at Reconnaissance Lake (18.Aug.2014). Our shelters are the little dots at the base of the talus field in the lower left part of the photo. The big mountain is Peak 12,385, the southernmost high point of the Yard Peak Massif, and the most dramatic. Godspeed, RJ […]