Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
My guidebook, Rambles & Scrambles: The Definitive Guide to Peakbagging Around Las Vegas, is currently available!
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 National Conservation Area and Lake Mead National Recreation Area, it also [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Zion National Park, UT
When: April 2009
Partners: Dow Williams
Route: South Face Diagonal (5.8 A0)
Great White Throne is perhaps the most famous of all Zion National Park landmarks. Its huge, blocky mass entices and intimidates anyone visiting the upper canyon. I’ve always wanted to climb it. And I finally did!
Rappelling the south [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Where: Near Cold Creek, NV
When: April 2009
Partners: DB
DB and I had a surprisingly good time hiking up the rugged and semi-interesting Ison Peak and Traction Benchmark. Unusually, Ison Peak’s summit rock was the top of a small arch! Traversing from there over to the larger Traction BM, we discovered the standard [...]
Submitted by Backcountry Explorer
Sightings of deer and bighorn sheep are a common occurrence in the Mojave Desert. Wild horses and burros are a bit less common. Recently, we enjoyed a good week of lesser-seen wildlife, including two rattlesnakes that I nearly stepped on.
A horned toad in Zion
Caterpillars coming to life below Ison [...]
Submitted by Rocky Mountain Raider
One of the best trail runs around the Boulder area for getting in strong mountain running shape is the Shadow Canyon trail up to the top of South Boulder Peak. With a vertical gain of close to 3,000 feet, this run will get your legs and lungs in shape for a [...]