Mine is to get my husband to retire so that we can spend more time in the Southwest mainly Zion and Grand Canyon. Happy Trailing, Pat Pittypatt's Backcountry...
And women! Its just the ones I know live in Fredonia and they dont get out to Zion much, but we do hike at the Grand Canyon often. Becky just went with us to...
Coalpits Trail description is done http://www.zionnational-park.com/zion-park-coalpits.htm This is a good hike if you are looking to hike in Zion during the...
This is too cool... hooked up the GPS to the computer and it made me a route of our Scoggins Route on a top map with all the right numbers. ;) Now just have...
Glad the software works! Its a pretty old version but I bet I could, or shane or tom or even the nation geographic website has updated software downloads for...
My favorite advice for hiking in grizzly bear habitat goes like this: Avoid surprising bears, especially sows with cubs, by carrying a whistle to blow when...
That was breath taking! Makes where I have hiked the last two days look kind of pitiful! I have spent the last two days on Cheaha Mtn. the highest point in...
Happy New Year group! My New Year's resolution is to sell as much junk on eBay as possible, so I can buy more backpacking and camera gear. There are some mucho...
I got a New Years present! I got a message on my machine at work from Joe Sr. :)! Does this mean you did not get everything you wanted for Xmas? It sounds...
You removed Joe's butt, climbing up Lady Mountain!!! ---from the group home page too early! He could have showed it to everyone in the hotel where he is...
Happy New Year Tanya! Yes, I really want a new camera, but I am practicing restraint. I'll probably wait a year for one of those expensive new toys to come...
Where you with your dad? The news keeps teasing us here in the canyons?!?!?!?! The reports say its going to be a MAJOR storm hitting and we wake up and there...
The first known documented report of an otter in Utah came from Peter Skeene Ogden in 1826 when three were trapped on the Raft River in the northwestern corner...
The Grand Canyon Trust needs your help to protect the land at Calf Creek. In the very heart of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Highway 12 ...
Reminds me of the High Peaks area of New York. Sat on a log that was so covered with moss that the log was actually rotted away and the whole thing was nothing...
We have Otters here in Grand Teton National Park also. I have seen them along Spring Creek just outside of Jackson to the west. Thought they were Muskrats at...
Bo and I seem to hit the trail in Zion and nearby at just the right times. Scoggins Wash was pouring water. There were great waterfalls in this usually dry...
I went to Deer Creek last summer with a group of folks and they went down into the narrows below the patio. They used a hand line...I was too chicken. I have...
When Bo invited me to go up Lady Mountain with him I was worried, but more about killing him. ~laughing~ I looked up a climbing school --- then Todd, the...
Would this cool stuff be along the river or are there signs, cairns, or tracks that would help lead the way? Further east in the Virgin River Gorge I've been...
I got baptized by hanging out with a few climbing friends who took me out several years ago (on some short toprope cliffs). Then taking a basic knots/climbing...
I would say you were right to dis-trust the reassuring, but extremely unreliable, hand line to get into Deer Creek Narrows. How did they get back out? Batman...
Gee --- All I did was watch your's and Bo's butts while hiking Lady Mountain and did not learn a thing! ;) My first real rap was with Tom Jone's (the same...