Here are the pictures and video from our annual week of skiing and tabletop gaming, this year back at the Cottonwood Canyons in Utah with a full house: Jon, Jim, Stan, Lewis, Tom, Bill, Kat, Darlene and myself. We were fortunate to get quite a heap of fresh snow early in the week and sunshine for the rest as we visited Alta, Snowbird and Solitude over five days.
On our return trip from Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, Darlene and I camped overnight on Antelope Island in Utah… and waded out during sunset into the Great Salt Lake.
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Here are my pictures and video from another great skiing (and gaming) week in Utah with Jon, Jim, Stan, Lewis, Bill, Brin, Rick and Darlene:
I’ve finally created the photo gallery and a video montage from a week of skiing earlier in March with Jon, Tom, Bill and Brin in Utah:
Pictures and videos from a week of skiing in Utah at Alta, Snowbird, Solitutde and Park City with Jon and his college friends:
A fun week of skiing (and board/card gaming) with Jon and his college friends in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains at Alta, Snowbird and Solitude:
This was a backpacking trip in July with Hoan, Huy, Corey, and Jason into the Kolob Canyons in the northeastern part of the park.
I arrived a few days earlier and so I wandered up the Zion Narrows for a few hours. This incredibly deep and narrow canyon runs for many miles and the river itself is the trail. You spend most of your time wading the river to follow the Narrows through. It’s very much fun. It’s also very difficult to photograph — so I want to go back and try again.
You can arrange to backpack from one end to another and stay overnight at one of several designated spots midway through. I’d love to come back here and backpack the whole length of it someday.
Some views from a couple miles upstream into the Zion Narrows:
These are the grasslands several miles to the northeast of Zion Canyon proper:
One of the many towering walls in Zion Canyon:
Lunch stop in Bear Trap Canyon in the Kolob Canyon area. No bears encountered but this canyon probably could trap one. It ends abruptly in a tight space with a nearly free-falling creek:
Skiing Utah with, clockwise from left: Eri, Stephen, Brendan, Corey, Hoan, Scott, Chris, and myself.
(I bit my tongue. Ow.)