It’s mountaineering season in Utah! Anyone have plans to hit some fun couloirs this weekend? …there are lots of options to choose from: Mt. Timpanogos Cold Fusion Forked Tongue Grunge Everest Ridge, although that’s getting thin up high from recent pics I saw Mt. Olympus Memorial 1 Memorial 2 Apollo Tolcat, maybe there’s still enough…
Category: Wasatch Front
Silver Lake Scramble
A group of us did a fun ridgeline last weekend that I’m calling the Silver Lake Scramble (since I don’t know how else to refer to it). Starting at Granite Flat above Tibble Fork, the overview looks like this. We parked at the trailhead across from Granite Flat Campground and walked the road a short…
Everest Ridge Repeat
What an unbelievable winter we’ve had along the Wasatch Front this year. It’s been record-breaking with totals reaching 900″! For many of us, that excitement has transitioned from powder skiing to mountaineering as warmer weather consolidates this incredible snowpack. Conditions couldn’t better right now for local objectives that involve an ice axe and crampons. A…
2022 Year In Review
I’m pretty satisfied with what was accomplished in 2022. I wanted to do a lot, but only did a little. Yet the little that I did, was significant from the list of things I want to do. Here’s a summary of what I was able to get done. STATE HIGHPOINTS As the year started out,…
White Baldy from American Fork Canyon
Still pretty new to mountaineering, I jumped all over an opportunity to get more crampon experience from a spring ascent of White Baldy. This invite also allowed me to knock off another Wasatch 11er, so I was super stoked to do this! Our adventure started from the Silver Lake Trailhead above Tibble Fork. The first…
Knife-edge Ridge Between Hidden Peak and AF Twins
This is what you can expect on the ridge between Hidden Peak and AF Twins. The clip below is the section of white rocks with an adjacent section of black rocks that is very similar. Each section is about 1/4 mile long. I wore a bright yellow shirt in case I slipped… that way, SAR…