Rambling Hemlock

A weekend backpacking trip to Davis Canyon. I’d overlooked this corner of the Needles District of Canyonlands. A nine mile long 4WD-only roa...

Four of us start down off the edge of the plateau. This is M.’s first backpacking trip in Utah and C.’s first full day in Utah. Both are int...

“I wonder what the view looks like from up there,” I often think to myself. This weekend I got in a solo backpacking trip where I had the o...

Sometimes I just want to spend vast quantities of time traveling inordinately short distances (as the crow flies anyway). Creeping along ...

A Douglas fir cone! In the bottom of the wash. Even though the canyon here at the mouth is full of sagebrush, willow, and cottonwoods. Antic...