Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
The first volume of my Zion National Park hiking, scrambling and climbing guidebook is now available!
Focusing on summit routes in the park, the book will be the first of its kind. Anticipate a 250-page guide covering routes to nearly 80 summits in and near Zion National Park, including photos and maps.
Just a [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
My guidebook, Rambles & Scrambles: The Definitive Guide to Peakbagging Around Las Vegas, is currently available online and in five retailers in the southern Nevada/SW Utah area!
In the book, a total of 239 peaks in and around Las Vegas are covered. Heavily featuring hiking, scrambling and climbing routes in Red Rock Canyon [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Zion National Park, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: DB
DB on the awesome summit of the East Spur
Lady Mountain’s East Spur is an impressive, exposed sub-peak of Lady Mountain, looming over Zion Canyon and the lodge, though still a full thousand feet below the parent peak.
Heading up the righteous Lady Mountain trail, we [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Zion National Park, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: DB
On the summit of Little Majestic
After a 4-month Zion hiatus, DB and I plowed our way back into the glorious park on a fine spring weekend for some more backcountry action. It started with a glaring oversight: Moquitch Hill.
I never realized that the tiny, [...]
Submitted by Rocky Mountain Raider
Northern New Mexico is a trail runners paradise. Most of the runs are at a good altitude (6,000-9,000 feet on average), there are few people out on the trails, and often the weather is good. Last week we were down in that neck of the woods to do some climbing and [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
The first volume of my Zion National Park hiking, scrambling and climbing guidebook is now available!
Focusing on summit routes in the park, the book will be the first of its kind. Anticipate a 250-page guide covering routes to nearly 80 summits in and near Zion National Park, including photos and maps.
Just a [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
My guidebook, Rambles & Scrambles: The Definitive Guide to Peakbagging Around Las Vegas, is currently available online and in five retailers in the southern Nevada/SW Utah area!
In the book, a total of 239 peaks in and around Las Vegas are covered. Heavily featuring hiking, scrambling and climbing routes in Red Rock Canyon [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: Kip Marshall, Matt Smith, Bo Beck, Ryan from Provo, and 5 other folks whose names I never got
Taking a short break atop the mesa
Some months back, Ram suggested Pandora’s Box as a particularly nice canyon for me to do in Capitol Reef National [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: DB
Heading up the Cassidy Arch Trail
Rising casually from our camp on BLM land, DB and I headed into Capitol Reef eager to explore this mostly-unknown-to-us national park. Stopping off at the Goosenecks overlook, we then headed in to the visitor center and inquired [...]
Submitted by Rocky Mountain Raider
We just got back from a trip to Northern New Mexico to explore some remote bouldering areas and to run a bunch of empty trails and dirt roads. I’ll be posting the entire trip as individual posts so that we can keep each area and trail as a separate post.
On the [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
My guidebook, Rambles & Scrambles: The Definitive Guide to Peakbagging Around Las Vegas, is currently available online and in five retailers in the southern Nevada/SW Utah area!
In the book, a total of 239 peaks in and around Las Vegas are covered. Heavily featuring hiking, scrambling and climbing routes in Red Rock Canyon [...]
Submitted by Rocky Mountain Raider
Well, I was really hoping to get another telemark video posted this week, but we decided to give it one more session in the editing room. It should be done and posted in two weeks - we are off to telemark some backcountry spots in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
The first volume of my Zion National Park hiking, scrambling and climbing guidebook is now available!
Focusing on summit routes in the park, the book will be the first of its kind. Anticipate a 250-page guide covering routes to nearly 80 summits in and near Zion National Park, including photos and maps.
Just a [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Amargosa Valley, Nevada
When March 2009
I’d always heard of Devil’s Hole but never thought about taking the time to check it out. So one day after bagging a trio of peaks outside of Pahrump, DB and I decided to head over to Ash Meadows and see what was going on.
Out at [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Amargosa Valley, California
When March 2009
Partners: DB, Ellen & Aaron Johnson
TOPO: Here
Aaron and Ellen on the ascent
I can’t believe it had been 5 years since I’d wandered up this sweet, little desert peak. Truly a sentinel in the wide expanse of Amargosa Valley, the views from the top of this mountain [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Outside Pahrump, Nevada
When: March 2009
Partners: DB
Just below the summit of High Peak
Although we’d spotted this small, rugged mountain before, DB recently enlightened me as to its named status on the topographical map. So we set out to climb it.
Easily gaining the north ridge from the highway, we wandered class 2 [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Outside Pahrump, Nevada
When: March 2009
Partners: DB
Who’s ever heard of Mount Schader or Mount Montgomery (not to be confused with Beatty’s Montgomery Mountain)? Certainly not me, that is, until DB was perusing topo maps and saw these two, ultra-obscure named peaks outside Pahrump, Nevada. And so we set out to bag [...]
Submitted by Rocky Mountain Raider
Earlier this week we went up to the Golden Nugget, one of the best single boulders on the front side of Eldorado Canyon. Sitting at the edge of a beautiful meadow, the Golden Nugget offers around 15+ individual problems - plus many eliminates or link ups. Although most problems go at [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
The first volume of my Zion National Park hiking, scrambling and climbing guidebook is now available!
Focusing on summit routes in the park, the book will be the first of its kind. Anticipate a 250-page guide covering routes to nearly 80 summits in and near Zion National Park, including photos and maps.
Just a [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
My guidebook, Rambles & Scrambles: The Definitive Guide to Peakbagging Around Las Vegas, is currently available online and in five retailers in the southern Nevada/SW Utah area!
In the book, a total of 239 peaks in and around Las Vegas are covered. Heavily featuring hiking, scrambling and climbing routes in Red Rock Canyon [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Poison Springs, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: DB, Andy Mac & Mark Beauchamp
Although not everyone agrees, I think Constrychnine (the East Fork of the South Fork of Poison Creek) is the best of the South Fork canyons. To add an element of surprise and mystery to our ‘poisonous’ experience, we decided to [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: North Wash, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: Andy Mac & Mark Beauchamp
Although Andy and I weren’t expecting much out of the East Fork of Shillelagh (and Mark didn’t know any better), we needed to finish it off. You see, a year and a half earlier, we’d backed off beta-less when we’d come [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: North Wash, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: DB, Andy Mac & Mark Beauchamp
Merry Piglet’s another fine, short canyon recently beta’d by Wyoming Dave. And in my opinion, it’s the best of the North Wash mini slots.
Stemming the Piglet
With a touch of climbing (5.6) on the approach, some may not find the [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: North Wash, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: Andy Mac & Mark Beauchamp
A fun pothole in Morocco
Morocco Canyon is a “new” canyon recently beta’d by Wyoming Dave. Short, but great fun, it’s a worthwhile objective for a late afternoon.
Nice rappel mid-way through Morocco Canyon
Thanks Dave! A great time out!
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Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Poison Springs, Utah
When: March 2009
Partners: DB, Andy Mac & Mark Beauchamp
Nearby Slideanide was so much fun that we decided to immediately over to its neighbor, Arscenic (aka the West Fork of the South Fork of Poison Creek). After a short walk in a shallow canyon, the floor dropped out! Sweet!
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