The first day of setup for the 184 mile trek across the western desert of Utah. Yeehaww!
Category: utah
The Pony Loop
Eight years ago I packed up my Corgi, threw her in the car, and we went for a little drive in a chaotic and unspecific westerly direction. I'd seen a lot of Utah having grown up here, but the west desert was kind of an unknown to me, and I found its quiet and dry …
Sometimes Shit Just Happens
I heard back from the race organizers and it sounded like things were looking good. I'm still pending on my entry to the race and I feel good concerning that, but a reminder that sometimes "shit happens" hit me today. Some things got shifted around at work and I may not be available to run …
A Day on the Highline, High Uintas
Day-long trips to the mountains have their place in my heart, but overnighting in the middle of the backcountry is where the love is. Another short day of work lead to enough time for two nights in the wilderness, and I knew precisely where I’d spend them. The High Uintas is littered with remote backcountry …
Christmas Meadows
There’s a mountain range that’s as a particularly strong draw on me. It’s an ancient range with crumbling peaks standing guard over an immense expanse of forest. The final stretch of snow has been lifted off the road into a very small corner of these incredible mountains, and after a very brief shift at work: …
Ferner Mountain
In lands west of the city, west of the alpine and north of all that people associate Utah with lies an unassuming desertscape. Littered with mountains and large expanses of land, dotted with the history of Western expansion. This is where you go to get away from everything, it’s where you go for quiet, it’s …
San Rafael Swell
The only thing swell going on these days is a patch of land in Southern Utah. Lemme restart, that was bad. I guess it’s no secret this year has been kinda messed up, and really at this point it needs no introduction or discussion, all I can say is it derailed everything I had going …
Routin’ away all day
While I work on the route I'll be prodding at this summer sometimes I kinda feel the urge to talk about it, so I did that and filmed it a bit. This is going to be a lot of work and will take a while to flesh out, so I thought having a record of …
The Road Ahead
I apologize for always using sappy ambiguous headlines, I don't know what to title my stuff half of the time (see: my recent Youtube video titles such as "Evocative Video Title" and "Some Mountains and Stuff"). I've been thinking a lot about what life is going to be like without a long hike to embark …
The Limping Rabbit 