Essays
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…