Recent Posts Tagged With 'forest'

• Autumn Hiking in Utah: Island Lake in the Uintas

  Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2007 at 12:33 in Utah, forest, hike, Park City, uinta, wasatch

  Near Kamas, Utah: The last day of our autumn vacation in Park City. We hiked every day, hitting new areas and elevations to "stretch our wings" if not our stiff and weary calf muscles. Unwittingly, we'd saved the best for last: the Crystal Lake area...

• Wildfire Too Close For Comfort

  Posted on Friday September 7th, 2007 at 09:47 in Utah, forest, blm, wildfire

  While much of the country has struggled with too much rain, it's been a record dry and hot summer here in the west. Consequently, it's been a bad year for wildfires. Here on the East Bench, we've watched them from a distance and even smelled them blo...

• Utah Wildfires Produce Fantastic Sunsets

  Posted on Sunday July 22nd, 2007 at 14:59 in Utah, forest, fire, salt lake

  These pix are from Friday night around 9 p.m. The cloud layers and resulting colors look strange because the bottom layer is smoke from the Monarch and Kimball wildfires burning on near the Oquirrh Mountains west of the Salt Lake valley. Smoke and re...