Black Diamond's new headski guarantees face shots. 

Ulli on the uptrack.

Sunday Tour

more touring from low elevation. Eventually you find snow. I hope my dogs appreciate all the effort I make so they can come too.

Low Elevation Tour

The tour on Sunday was a low elevation tour. We heard that there was near blizard conditions on ridgelines, so we decided to deal with sticks, rocks and a dusting of snow instead.

Eventually, we climbed above 8000 feet where the avalanche forcast center told us that we would find snow. yup.

Shortly after admiring the setting sun's light on the way down, the snow petered out, and the 3000 foot downclimb began. What a great day!

Southern Utah Swing

After our Thanksgiving meal, we took off for a tour of Southern Utah.

We hiked to No Man's Mesa, a remote part of Kane County which has been grazed only briefly. No doubt because of the 4 mile slot canyon and 900 vertical feet of switchbacks across Navajo sandstone with exposure!

The slot in Lick Wash to No Man's Mesa
widened a bit
until the mesa appeared.


A short stop in Bryce National Park.

A meeting of stones. What plans are they making?

A brief hike in Capitol Reef NP.

First turns

Snow conditions are still a little thin, but we found some nice snow.

River Cleanup on the Jordan River

Heading out in search of trash.

Who would have thought that the Jordan River in North Salt Lake City would be this pretty?

Two of us picked out over a hundred pounds of trash from the river. The white can in my trash bag is a fire extinguisher.

A walk on skis

Happy Halloween

Mountain Mahogany Trees

My favorite trees.

Errol Morris on Open Source Radio

A great interview by one of my favorite interviewers with one of my favorite movie makers.

Listen to the interview here:
http://www.radioopensource.org/passion-truth/

If you have not yet seen Fog of War, interviews with Robert McNamara about WWII and Viet Nam, you owe it to yourself to view this film. One of the more powerful and surprising films you will see, and more engaging than you might think.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/fogofwar/indexFlash.html

Ulli and a porcupine

Ulli went for a nice run on the Great Western trail. The sky was beautiful, it was a nice warm fall day. The colors were brilliant.
There was a porcupine sharing the trail with us.

Memories from Winter

We went down to the Tushars for a spring skiing yurt trip. Damn if it didn't snow. All three days there was creamy spring powder.

First Snow

First snow seen from the back yard.

Earlier this summer, we tried to hike down to the Colorado river from the north rim of the Grand Canyon. We set a turn arround time of 2pm, by which time we were a mile from the river. Stick to your turn arround time, since a night time exit accross the steep slopes near the rim itself would not be fun in the dark!

Fun with Lens Babies.

September Turns

Seven skiers spent sunday seeking snow.