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My Never-Ending List

Unlike my never-ending list of things that need to be done around the house, this list is much more fun to work on… but no matter how much I do, “the work” never seems to shrink.  It only tends to grow.

ALASKA

  • Denali (state highpoint @ 20,310)
    • 2024 – Prep Course with AMS

ARIZONA

  • Grand Canyon river raft from Lees Ferry to Pierce Ferry: map
  • ✔ Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim
    • Nov 2016 – South Kaibab to North Kaibab: map
    • Sep 2018 – North Kaibab to Bright Angel: map
    • Nov 2021 – South Kaibab to North Kaibab (repeat of 2016): trip report
    • May 2022 – North Kaibab to Bright Angel: leg 1 trip report
    • May 2022 – Bright Angel to North Kaibab: leg 2 trip report
    • Oct 2024 – South Kaibab to North Kaibab (repeat of 2016)
  • Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim via Bass Canyon: plan
  • Grand Canyon Rim-to-River via South Kaibab down, Bright Angel up
  • ✔ Havasupai: 2017, 2019, trip summary, map
  • ✔ Humphrey’s Peak (state highpoint @ 12,633′): 2020, trip report, map
  • Nankoweap Trail
  • Paria Canyon from Wire Pass to Lees Ferry
  • Tonto Trail
  • The Wave
  • White Pocket

CALIFORNIA

  • Half Dome
  • Mt. Baldy
  • ✔ Mt. Shasta: 2023, trip report
  • ✔ Mt. Whitney (state highpoint @ 14,505′): 2019, 2021, trip report
  • Cactus to Clouds

COLORADO

  • ✔ Grays Peak: 2018
  • ✔ Long’s Peak: 2021
  • ✔ Manitou Incline: 2019, map
  • ✔ Mt. Elbert (state highpoint @ 14,439′): 2021, trip report
  • ✔ Pike’s Peak from the Barr Trail: 2019, plan
  • ✔ Torreys Peak from the Kelso Ridge: 2022
  • all 14ers

IDAHO

  • ✔ Borah Peak (state highpoint @ 12,667′): 2014, 2019, 2020, 2023: trip report, map
  • Leatherman Peak (2nd tallest @ 12,228′)

MONTANA

  • ✔ Granite Peak (state highpoint @ 12,799′): 2020, trip report

NEVADA

  • ✔ Boundary Peak (state highpoint @ 13,143′): 2020, trip report
  • ✔ Wheeler Peak: 2020, trip report

NEW MEXICO

  • ✔ Wheeler Peak (state highpoint @ 13,163′): 2021, trip report

OREGON

  • ✔ Mt. Hood (state highpoint @ 11,239′): 2023, trip report
  • ✔ South Sister: 2023, trip report

UTAH

  • ✔ Ben Lomand: 2017, 2018
  • ✔ Box Elder Peak: 2018
  • ✔ Buckskin Gulch: 2016, map
  • Calf Creek Falls
    • Upper
    • ✔ Lower: 2020
  • Cosmic Ashtray
  • ✔ Coyote Gulch via Crack in the Wall: 2016(2)
  • Coyote Gulch via Hurricane Wash
  • ✔ Deseret Peak (county highpoint): 2016, 2020(2), trip report, map
  • Escalante River hike from Hwy 12 bridge back into town
  • Escalante River float from Hwy 12 to Lake Powell: plan
  • ✔ Grandview Peak: 2018
  • ✔ Hayden Peak: 2016
  • Highline Trail from Chepeta? to Mirror Lake Highway
  • ✔ Ibapah Peak
  • ✔ Kings Peak (state highpoint @ 13,527′): 2017, 2020, 2022, map
  • ✔ South Kings Peak (2nd tallest @ 13,512′): 2017, 2020, trip report, map
  • ✔ Gilbert Peak (3rd tallest @ 13,442′): 2017, 2020, trip report
  • ✔ Lone Peak: 2016, 2017, 2021: map
  • ✔ Mt. Nebo: 2016, 2020, 2022
  • ✔ Mt. Raymond: 2018
  • ✔ Mt. Superior / Monte Cristo: 2018
  • ✔ Notch Peak (West Desert): 2017, 2020, trip report, map
  • ✔ Orderville Canyon: 2015, map
  • Ostler Peak
  • ✔ Peek-a-boo / Spooky slots: 2016, 2020
  • ✔ Pfiefferhorn: 2018,2022 map
  • Red Castle
  • Reflection Canyon
  • ✔ Rocky Mouth Canyon Peak: 2018, map
  • Salt Creek (Canyonlands)
  • ✔ Subway (top down): 2014, map
  • ✔ Sundial Peak: 2018, map
  • ✔ Thurston Peak (county highpoint): 2018, map
  • ✔ Unnamed peak 10,033 above Lake Blanche: 2018, map
  • ✔ Unnamed peak west of Pfeifferhorn (UPWOP): 2019, 2022 map
  • ✔ Zion / Angel’s Landing: 2014, 2015, 2016, map
  • ✔ Zion / Narrows (top down): 2015, 2020, map
  • Zion / Observation Point: plan
  • Zion / Traverse: plan
  • ✔ Zion / West Rim Trail: 2019, trip report, map

WASHINGTON

  • ✔ Mt. Rainier (state highpoint @ 14,411′): trip report, map
  • Mt. Rainier (Emmons Glacier route)
  • ✔ Mt. Baker (Coleman Glacier route): trip report, map
  • Mt. Baker (Easton Glacier route)
  • Mt. Adams
  • ✔ Mt. St. Helens: trip report, map
  • Glacier Peak
  • West Coast Trail
  • Wonderland Trail: plan
  • Loowit Trail

WYOMING

  • Cirque of the Towers (Wind Rivers)
  • ✔ Gannet Peak (state highpoint @ 13,804′): 2022, trip report
  • ✔ Table Mountain: 2021, trip report
  • ✔ Titcomb Basin (Wind Rivers): 2022, trip report
  • Teton Crest Trail

INTERNATIONAL

  • Africa: Mt Kilimanjaro (country highpoint @ 19,341′): plan
  • ✔ Argentina: Aconcagua (country highpoint @ 22,837′): full guide, map
  • Australia: Mt Kosciuszko (country highpoint @ 7,310′)
  • China: Great Wall
  • China: Mt Huashan
  • ✔ Costa Rica: Cerro Chirripo (country highpoint @ 12,533′): 2019, map
  • ✔ Mexico: Pico de Orizaba (country highpoint @ 18,491′): 2023, trip report, map
  • ✔ Mexico: Iztaccihuatl (17,126′); 2024, trip report, map
  • Nepal: Annapurna Base Camp trek
  • Nepal: Everest Base Camp trek: plan, map
  • Nepal: Island Peak @ 20,305′
  • Peru: Machu Pichu: plan
  • Turkey: Mt Ararat (country highpoint @ 16,854′): plan
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Awesome views from the top of Y Mountain. Looking north into Rock Canyon, where I started, and across towards the old Squaw Peak, Cascade Mountain, and Mount Timpanogos further off in the distance.

Pretty fun loop hike 👇

- Up 1.8 miles from the Rock Canyon trailhead
- Up 1.8 miles on First Right Fork to Slide Canyon
- Down Slide Canyon Trail .5 miles to Y Mountain Trail
- Up 1 mile to Y Mountain West Peak
- Down .25 and over .25 miles to Y Mountain East Peak
- Down 1 mile back to Slide Canyon Trail
- Down 1.5 miles to Y Trail (top of the BYU Y)
- Down 1 mile to the Y Trail trailhead
- Across 1.75 miles on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail

For a total of 10.75 miles with 4,137 feet of elevation gain.

#ymountain #rockcanyon #rockcanyontrail #firstrightfork #slidecanyon #ytrail #ytrailhead #bst #bonnevilleshorelinetrail #bonnevilleshoreline #connector #loophike #wasatchfront #hikethewasatch #wasatchmountains #wasatch #hike #hikemore

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Awesome views from the top of Y Mountain.  Looking north into Rock Canyon, where I started, and across towards the old Squaw Peak, Cascade Mountain, and Mount Timpanogos further off in the distance. 

Pretty fun loop hike 👇

- Up 1.8 miles from the Rock Canyon trailhead
- Up 1.8 miles on First Right Fork to Slide Canyon
- Down Slide Canyon Trail .5 miles to Y Mountain Trail
- Up 1 mile to Y Mountain West Peak 
- Down .25 and over .25 miles to Y Mountain East Peak
- Down 1 mile back to Slide Canyon Trail
- Down 1.5 miles to Y Trail (top of the BYU Y)
- Down 1 mile to the Y Trail trailhead
- Across 1.75 miles on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail

For a total of 10.75 miles with 4,137 feet of elevation gain.

#ymountain #rockcanyon #rockcanyontrail #firstrightfork #slidecanyon #ytrail #ytrailhead #bst #bonnevilleshorelinetrail #bonnevilleshoreline #connector #loophike #wasatchfront #hikethewasatch #wasatchmountains #wasatch #hike #hikemore

As the seasons change, each quiet mile through these trees feels like an invitation to let go of what was and move toward all that`s yet to come...

#seasonschange #lettinggo #movingon #pressingforward #lookingahead #newbeginnings #natureishealing #healingenergy #goodvibes #autumnvibes #autumnmountains #hiking #hikerlife #mountainlife #mountains

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As the seasons change, each quiet mile through these trees feels like an invitation to let go of what was and move toward all that's yet to come...

#seasonschange #lettinggo #movingon #pressingforward #lookingahead #newbeginnings #natureishealing #healingenergy #goodvibes #autumnvibes #autumnmountains #hiking #hikerlife #mountainlife #mountains

Fall colors are fading fast, losing the battle with winter.

#fallcolors #fadingfast #autumn #hikingtrails #hiking #hike #hiker #getreadyforwinter

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Fall colors are fading fast, losing the battle with winter.

#fallcolors #fadingfast #autumn #hikingtrails #hiking #hike #hiker #getreadyforwinter

I had high hopes of doing some hiking during a recent trip to O`ahu.  Unfortunately, a lower leg injury from a Summer Hockey League playoff game last month left me hobbling around just enough to make the trip, but not much else.  

This is what I was hoping to explore while spending 10 days on O`ahu for the first time.  I also knew I wouldn`t get to all of them in one trip — especially with other things we wanted to do — so here they are in order of priority:

- Backway for the Stairway to Heaven (Haiku Stairs)
- Three Peaks (Mt. Olomana)
- Reverse Olomana Trail
- Makapu`u Lighthouse Trail
- Koko Crater Stairs
- Koko Crater Rim Trail
- Diamond Head Crater Trail
- Old Pali Highway
- Mt. Ka`ala (tallest peak on O`ahu)
- Pūpūkea to La`ie
 
Maybe next time...

#hikehawaii #hawaiihiking #oahu #stairwaytoheaven #haikustairs #threepeaks #olomana #kokocrater #rimtrail #oldpalihighway #mtkaala #lowerleginjury #musclestrain #tibialisanterior #hockey

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I had high hopes of doing some hiking during a recent trip to O'ahu.  Unfortunately, a lower leg injury from a Summer Hockey League playoff game last month left me hobbling around just enough to make the trip, but not much else.   

This is what I was hoping to explore while spending 10 days on O'ahu for the first time.  I also knew I wouldn't get to all of them in one trip — especially with other things we wanted to do — so here they are in order of priority:

- Backway for the Stairway to Heaven (Haiku Stairs)
- Three Peaks (Mt. Olomana)
- Reverse Olomana Trail
- Makapu'u Lighthouse Trail
- Koko Crater Stairs
- Koko Crater Rim Trail
- Diamond Head Crater Trail
- Old Pali Highway
- Mt. Ka'ala (tallest peak on O'ahu)
- Pūpūkea to La'ie
 
Maybe next time...

#hikehawaii #hawaiihiking #oahu #stairwaytoheaven #haikustairs #threepeaks #olomana #kokocrater #rimtrail #oldpalihighway #mtkaala #lowerleginjury #musclestrain #tibialisanterior #hockey

Six months ago today, I stood on top of the tallest peak in the Americas — Aconcagua, Argentina — and it has taken me that long to finish a series of posts about my epic adventure!

This day-by-day trip report is packed with photos, route descriptions, and insights from my own experience.  You’ll find everything from what to pack, to what the camps are really like, to why I think the 360° Traverse is the ideal choice.

👉 Lnk in bio!

Whether it’s your first high-altitude climb or you’re adding Aconcagua to your mountaineering resume, the 360° Traverse offers one of the most satisfying ways to stand on the highest point in South America.

#aconcagua #climbaconcagua #aconcagua360 #360traverse #highpoint #highpointing #highestpoint #tallestpeak #andes #andesmountains #argentina #sevensummits #7summits #highaltitude #6961 #trekking #mountaineering #inka #inkaexpediciones #expedition #adventure #adventuretime #adventuretravel #adventures #climbhigh #climbhigher #peakbagging #peakbagger

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Six months ago today, I stood on top of the tallest peak in the Americas — Aconcagua, Argentina — and it has taken me that long to finish a series of posts about my epic adventure!

This day-by-day trip report is packed with photos, route descriptions, and insights from my own experience.  You’ll find everything from what to pack, to what the camps are really like, to why I think the 360° Traverse is the ideal choice.

👉 Lnk in bio!

Whether it’s your first high-altitude climb or you’re adding Aconcagua to your mountaineering resume, the 360° Traverse offers one of the most satisfying ways to stand on the highest point in South America.

#aconcagua #climbaconcagua #aconcagua360 #360traverse #highpoint #highpointing #highestpoint #tallestpeak #andes #andesmountains #argentina #sevensummits #7summits  #highaltitude #6961 #trekking #mountaineering #inka #inkaexpediciones #expedition #adventure #adventuretime #adventuretravel #adventures #climbhigh #climbhigher #peakbagging #peakbagger

My 13th time on this summit, but 1st to enjoy some watermelon at the top 🍉 Thanks to Jocelyn, the "Watermelon Girl", who lugged that all the way up and was gracious enough to share it 😁

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #mounttimp #timpanogos #timp #11er #goatchallenge #hikethewasatch #summitshot #peakbagger #summervibes #watermelon #watermelongirl #goodvibrations

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My 13th time on this summit, but 1st to enjoy some watermelon at the top 🍉 Thanks to Jocelyn, the "Watermelon Girl", who lugged that all the way up and was gracious enough to share it 😁

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #mounttimp #timpanogos #timp #11er #goatchallenge #hikethewasatch #summitshot #peakbagger #summervibes #watermelon #watermelongirl #goodvibrations

Summit Shack in Sight!

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #mttimp #timp #wasatchfront #wasatchmountains #11er #summitshack #mountainlife #hikemore #hikerlife

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Summit Shack in Sight!

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #mttimp #timp #wasatchfront #wasatchmountains #11er #summitshack #mountainlife #hikemore #hikerlife

Veered right a bit of the South saddle (red line) for a more adventurous route up to Timp... but once we got up on the ridge, we saw we could have done an even more interesting way (yellow line) cutting into that cliff band and zigzagging along the shelves as seen in the 4th picture (taken from South Timp).

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #mttimp #timp #timpanogos #mountaineering

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Veered right a bit of the South saddle (red line) for a more adventurous route up to Timp... but once we got up on the ridge, we saw we could have done an even more interesting way (yellow line) cutting into that cliff band and zigzagging along the shelves as seen in the 4th picture (taken from South Timp).

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #mttimp #timp #timpanogos #mountaineering

Only a few patches of snow remain between Aspen Grove and Emerald Lake.

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #timpanogos #timp #aspengrove #emeraldlake #snowfun #springhiking #wasatchmountains #goatworthy

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Only a few patches of snow remain between Aspen Grove and Emerald Lake.

#mounttimpanogos #mttimpanogos #timpanogos #timp #aspengrove #emeraldlake #snowfun #springhiking #wasatchmountains #goatworthy
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