It is always an adventure with our family. We make the most of our trips. Our 2022 Hunting season found us in Utah once again. Utah has an amazing youth program. Alyssa was drawn again this year for another mule deer tag and this time it was a success! Join us on our hunt and some other cool places we explored while we spent 10 days in one of the coolest places to hunt.
Category: Special Landmark
Hikes with special or unique landmarks.
10 Places to See on Highway 395 in 2 Days
Friday Night 1. Hogback Creek Our summer road trip focused on the 395 highway along the Eastern Sierra’s mountain range in the Inyo & Mono County. We found camp late Friday night at a primitive camp spot along Hogback Creek. Nothing around us but the bright stars and the dark sky in the sierra’s. …
Big Horn Mine & Vincent’s Cabin ~ July 9, 2016
I got up to the trailhead about 8am. The parking lot wasn’t crowded yet but there was plenty of cars there starting off the morning early. The trailhead houses a few different trails, the most popular is the portion of the PCT going to the summit of Mt Baden Powell that my brother and I…
Mt. Baden-Powell via Vincent Gulch ~ May 29th & May 30th 2016
My trip started off with a knock on my brothers door on Sunday afternoon at 2 pm. I was unannounced and uncertain if he was even home. He answered the door rubbing his eyes as though he was just waking up. I was having none of that on Memorial Weekend. He had no plans for…
Potato Chip Rock – Mt. Woodson Trail ~ April 30, 2016
It was a cloudy wet Saturday morning on April 30, 2016, it had just rained a few hours before I woke up so everything was damp but the rain had stopped and the forecast showed no more, but who can really trust the forecast in So Cal? We were supposed to get an El Nino, but that never…
Anza Borrego Desert State Park ~ April 9th-10th, 2016
After doing the Ladder Canyon we wanted to do something similar and heard that there were some canyons out in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park that were the same. Doing some research we discovered that the Anza Borrego Park was huge with a lot of Points of Interest. There was no way to fit…
Mecca Hills – Painted Canyon – Ladder Canyon Hike ~ February 13, 2016
My first trip to Mecca Hills Painted Canyon on Sunday 2/13/2016 was amazing. I have never been to anything like this canyon before and didn’t know that this place existed so close to home. We started this trip like any other trip going out to the desert, super early! Taking the 10 freeway out from the IE…
Mt Whitney Summit in 2 Days ~ July 20, 2013
Five people, two days, twenty two miles and over 6000 feet of climbing, Mt Whitney Conquered! Thursday morning two families set out to Lone Pine to put use all the months training by climbing Mt Baldy. We headed out from Riverside around 8 am and made it to the Visitor Center right outside Lone Pine…