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2013 Highlights

Jim Harris — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:03:20 +0000

2013 was a good year and here’s evidence. What a privilage to travel with so many enagaging people! Here’s to more learnin’, travlin’ and smilin’ in 2014! A few days after the end of 2012, I boarded a plane to Mexico with one set of clothes, one packraft, and my camera to meet some guys I only knew on the internet. Luc Mehl had conceived a weird triathlon that entailed biking to North America’s 3rd highest peak, Pico de Orizaba,...

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October Snow

Jim Harris — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:32:04 +0000

It snowed about a foot yesterday and, with a few inches under that from the week before, Ben and I decided to have a gander at the skiing opportunity in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Most slopes are still grass and rock, but we found some good turns on some of the more favored slopes at Alta. Sunrise silk Hoar crystals formed when the clouds cleared off overnight Update: October 30 was pretty good too....

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Orizaba Ramblers

Jim Harris — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:00:05 +0000

Windmilling his kayak paddle into the breeze, Luc Mehl, 34, pulls onto the sandbar at the mouth of Mexico’s Rio Antigua and squints at the novelty of a seascape horizon in the hazy afternoon glare. Two days of sleepless dysentery have drained Mehl’s prodigious vigor and his hands are blanched and clammy as we high-five. Still, he’s grinning with accomplishment in the salt air. Eleven days earlier we’d set out pedaling bikes strapped with mountaineering and whitewater paddling gear in Cholula de...

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Fast Grass

Jim Harris — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:18:51 +0000

Utah has gotten wallopped with its first big snowstorm around this week each of the six autumns I’ve lived here. This week it began snowing in the mountains on a Monday night and after seeing facebook pictures of trail breaking in deep powder Noah Howell, Ben Peters, John and I decided to check it out. With most of the NWS’s remote snow-sensing stations still decomissioned from summer we hoped that we’d find as much snow in Little Cottonwood Canyon as...

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Capitol Reef Traverse

Jim Harris — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:10:48 +0000

My dad and I parked the car at the north end of Capitol Reef National Park and began heading south, unsure if our hypothetical route would work. We had a few hangups where vertical canyon walls forced us to backtrack and a few other places where I think my dad was surprised to find himself climbing 5th class terrain, but we found a route through nonetheless. At the end of the week a retired couple in a luxury sedan...

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The Trail’s End

Jim Harris — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:37:08 +0000

While riding in the Uintas this week we came across an aspen tree with “The Trails End” carved into the bark. The graffiti was dated 1936. That spot is no longer the trail’s end (apostrophies having been less popular 75 years ago) and we continued the grind up to the ridge. For more photos… Summer is in it’s death spasms here and the trees’ chlorophyll has gone south leaving the leaves to their annual pyrotechnics. The maples have a clear...

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PC Pedaling

Jim Harris — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:10:14 +0000

Allison pedaling the local trails this weekJenn Berg on riding a quick lap after work the other nightAllison riding Link trail in Park City

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Grand Teton Scramble

Jim Harris — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:23:09 +0000

At about 4am yesterday, Davide and I left our trailhead bivy spot and began the climb up the Grand Teton. Sometime around midnight the sky began clouding over and what began as a cool, crisp night was warm and muggy when we started walking. Neither of us have spent much time in GTNP and so we had to study the trailhead map by headlamp just to get ourselves pointed the right direction. Luckily the trail is well-signed and route-finding is...

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August Skiing

Jim Harris — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:09:00 +0000

We scampered up Alta this morning to make some August turns. It was a quicker hike than I expected – just over an hour to the top. Little patches of snow in the shade were frozen hard on the way up, but the chute catches the sun early and was pleasantly soft by 8am. Allison and I had last skied the chute about a month ago, when we were able to ski all the way to the parking lot. Not so...

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Slip ‘n Slide

Jim Harris — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:53:47 +0000

Davide and I headed out earlyish today, hoping we’d beat the forecasted storms. We didn’t. About an hour in it began raining lightly. We posted up under thick trees and wondered if we should keep climbing. When it began raining a little harder, then a little harder still, we decided to pull the plug and head downhill. My glasses were fogging when it was still dry due to a steamy first day of August. Then they were totally hosed once it...

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