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I Hiked the Narrows Again, October 2017 Version

Posted on: 19 December 2017 /

Categories: Hiking

TBH, the experience isn’t trite or cliche for having done it two years in a row now. OTOH, blogging about it kind of is (2016 Narrows hike, and that one previous that was pre-blog) . So what made this one different? 2017 is a different year than 2016, and I am much wizened. It’s colder

Logan Canyon and Temple Fork Sawmill

Posted on: 18 December 2017 /

Categories: Hiking

Every time I talk to someone local about a hike I want to do that happens to not be in Logan Canyon, they get upset and tell me that there’s lots of good hikes in Logan Canyon. I mean, sure, and there are, but (a) there’s more than one canyon in the world worth exploring,

Revisiting Places Where I Used to Live: Twin Falls

Posted on: 16 December 2017 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

Driving up to Boise to see the Modest Mouse concert in September gave me keen opportunity to drive through Twin Falls, a place where I used to live. Hence the post title. I also drove through Rupert, where I lived for like a week before moving to Twin (as the locals call it). In Rupert,

Three Months of Dog Ownership

Posted on: 15 December 2017 /

Categories: Dog Ownership, Self

I’ve been investigating getting a dog since about senior year of college (= for the last 21 years). My SIL started harassing me (brutally) to get a dog earlier this year, plus it seems like a good time in life to stop not doing things for fear of unknown consequences. Ergo, I got a dog.

Saw Modest Mouse in Concert Twice

Posted on: 26 November 2017 /

Categories: Entertainment, Music

It’s like an Onion article: the headline is the whole story. Saw them in June in Salt Lake with my Aunt Mitzie, then again in September in Boise with myself. Salt Lake had a better play list, but I liked the Boise venue better. Now what? I like that they don’t ever play the same set

Backpacking Back from Island Lake (Day 3)

Posted on: 18 November 2017 /

Categories: Hiking, Travel

This post is mostly to provide closure and post more pictures that were taken on the third day of this trip. I got my best pics of Island Lake on Day 3. I mean, fwiw. And then it was time to bid sad farewell to this magical place where I mostly just felt sick and

Backpacking to Island Lake: Day 2

Posted on: 17 November 2017 /

Categories: Hiking, Travel

And then I woke up. Because it was the next day. Here’s probably my favorite photo of Upper Sweeney Lake. I took it on the way out on Day 2. Better lakes would come, but, hey, meadow, etc. From there, you’re hiking out of the lake basin. This second day was just a series of

Backpacking to Island Lake: Three Days in the Wind Rivers (Day 1)

Posted on: 16 November 2017 /

Categories: Hiking, Travel

It was supposed to be five days, but then I got bored, lonely, and dehydrated. Plus the fish weren’t biting on flies and it was super-crowded. Nice place, though! At one point, I had the perfect recommendations in mind for how everyone should do this hike. Now? We’ll see. Here’s the prime payoff pano of

Hiking Logan Canyon: White Pine Lake

Posted on: 31 July 2017 /

Categories: Hiking, Travel

If you look up “best hike in northern Utah” in the dictionary, everyone agrees that that’s the High Creek Lake hike. I didn’t go on that one though. White Pine Lake is a pretty great hike, particularly considering its trailhead is 30 minutes from my house, right next to Tony Grove Lake. It’s possibly #2.

Move to Utah, Car 2: via Leadville

Posted on: 24 July 2017 /

Categories: road trips, Travel

So I have two cars. One is the Jeep. The Jeep’s journey from Norman, Okla. to Cache Valley is chronicled under separate cover. Then there’s Car 2. My house in Utah was going to close on April 27th, but I still had to be in Oklahoma teaching until May 10th or so. Some point around

I Hiked the Narrows Again, October 2017 Version

Logan Canyon and Temple Fork Sawmill

Revisiting Places Where I Used to Live: Twin Falls

Three Months of Dog Ownership

Saw Modest Mouse in Concert Twice

Backpacking Back from Island Lake (Day 3)

Backpacking to Island Lake: Day 2

Backpacking to Island Lake: Three Days in the Wind Rivers (Day 1)

Hiking Logan Canyon: White Pine Lake

Move to Utah, Car 2: via Leadville

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