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Wendover to St. George on Dirt

A simple idea… Drive from Wendover, straddling the Nevada/Utah border on I-80, to St. George in the SW corner of Utah, near the Arizona border. Drive from Wendover to St. George… on dirt. When a friend mentioned the idea asking

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A Swell Break

Sometimes you just need a break. It’d been a long tail end of the winter and nearly three months since my last camping trip to the Newfoundland Mountains. So while I was doing some maintenance to the Trooper a few

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On the Other Side: Whitmore Point

I believe it was Squaw Creek that began a recurring dream I have. I used to hike it during the summers I spent as an adolescent at Squaw Valley, California, every time connecting to something that pushes one on to

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Tuweep to Laugh

Tuweep is a place that delivers you proportionately. Big earth, puny human. Like her not-so-distant relative, the North Rim, this more obscure Grand Canyon overlook shuts your mouth and opens your senses and your mind. We were there only eleven

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Cedar Mesa for the Weekend

Last weekend I spent a few days prowling around Cedar Mesa, both on foot and in my Jeep. Here is where I unfolded my cot and unrolled my sleeping bag at the dead end of the Cigarette Springs road. Still

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Newfoundland Mountains Trip Report

On Saturday morning, Feb. 16, eight rigs, Stephen, Andrew, Steve and his Wife, Brandon and Gordon, Eric, Ryan, Joseph and myself departed from the parking lot at the Golden Spike visitors center. Our destination – a weekend of winter exploring

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February 2013 Summit Trip Report

For our February Summit we were fortunate enough to be given a guided tour of the Fort Douglas Military Museum. Saturday was the first day in quite some time that the sun decided to show and you could see across

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Beef Basin Explorations

You had me at “non-family friendly trip”. Rob has been exploring Beef Basin for over 10 years and still has more to see. He sent me an invitation to join him on a trip with a scope that exceeded what

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Henry Mountain’s & Elk Ridge

Late the afternoon of Wed. July 17th I picked up my old friend Tim on the way out of town. Our destination, the Henry Mountains. But due to the late start, we wouldn’t make the Henries before dark, so set

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Transcontinental Railroad Trip Report (September 2012)

Bright and early on Saturday morning we met up at the Golden Spike National Historic Site and wandered around a little bit before we struck out westward along the old Transcontinental Railroad grade. The purpose of this trip was to

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