“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” Henry David Thoreau Blue Bells are common in the Rocky mountains of Utah and the great basin of Utah Whenever I go out hiking in the mountains I always [...]
Archive for the ‘Trails’ Category
Bluebell – A favorite flower found in Stansbury Mountains of Tooele County, Utah
Sunday, March 27th, 2011Red Pine Lake & The Little Matterhorn – Little Cottonwood Canyon; Wasatch Mountains, Utah – by Jaromy Jessop
Saturday, March 26th, 2011Red Pine Lake – Little Cottonwood Canyon; Wasatch Mountains, Utah As Spring and Summer approach, even though there is still 400 inches of snowpack on the Wasatch, I start to plan my summer excursions. We usually go out once a week and without a doubt, several of those weekends will be spent in the high [...]
My Summer Paradise………..The La-Sal Mountains of Utah; by Jaromy Jessop
Friday, March 18th, 2011South Mountain, La Sal Mountains – Utah I’m looking forward to Summer this year because that is when we make our annual pilgrimage to Moab. Most people know of Moab for the red rock color country of Arches and Canyonlands National Park. Others are drawn there for the world class white water rafting. My favorite [...]
North Head Lighthouse – Cape Disappointment State Park; Illwaco, Washington
Saturday, February 26th, 2011North Head Lighthouse – Cape Disappointment, Washington “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.” H.P. Lovecraft While visiting Astoria, Oregon on our trip down the Oregon Coast in late May of 2010, my wife and I decided to take a detour to Cape Disappointment and we are [...]
SNOW SHOE ADVENTURE – Mill D North Fork – Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Winter sun filters through the pines – Wasatch Mountains, Utah Went snow shoeing the other day up Big Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah to a place called Mill D North Fork. This trailhead is very popular in the summer time as it provides access to the long trail network known as the [...]
A cold night on Red Pine Mountain – Sheeprock Mountains; Tooele County, Utah
Sunday, February 13th, 2011“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” Friedrich August von Hayek The Sheeprock Mountains are a little known range located south of Vernon in southeast Tooele County. One of my most memorable hiking events occurred in this range on April 24th, 2004 when I climbed [...]
TABLE MOUNTAIN – Ancient Sentinel of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah
Sunday, January 30th, 2011Table Mountain as seen from the East with the shoreline of ancient Lake Bonneville half way up the peak – GSLD, Utah “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out along the Pony Express Trail, [...]
Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge – Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa
Friday, January 28th, 2011Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge – As seen from the Omaha, Nebraska side of the Missouri River “Praise the bridge that carried you over” George Colman Passing through Council Bluffs on business in 2007 I noticed an interesting structure that was being built across the Missouri River from Omaha. Being curious as always and having just [...]
DAVIS MOUNTAIN – Skull Valley, Utah
Monday, January 24th, 2011View down to Skull Valley from high up on Round Top – Davis Mountain, Utah “Public opinion is a poor tyrant Compared with our own private opinion” - Henry David Thoreau If you drive south on the Skull valley road to where it merges with the Johnson’s pass road near the Dugway gate, and then [...]
DEATH CANYON – Simpson Mountains, Utah
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011Flat Top Mountain with the Sheeprock Mountains in the Distance and the Mighty Wasatch rising behind them. “Freedom is from within” Frank Lloyd Wright In early April I decided to go and explore an area that I have been wanting to visit again for quite some time and that place is Death Canyon in [...]
INDIAN SPRINGS CANYON – Simpson Mountains, Utah
Friday, January 21st, 2011Gnarled ancient Juniper on the slopes of the Indian Peaks – Simpson Mountains, Utah “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher” William Wordsworth One day in May, I decided to take a drive out into the Great American Desert after work at Dugway Proving Grounds. I left the main gate [...]