The art of avoiding people. In the Wasatch. There actually isn’t much art involved – if you don’t mind bit of bushwacking. My ongoing goal is to explore the lesser Wasatch – or at least the lesser known Wasatch. My
I’m a sucker for annual themes. These are usually broad ideas – like bagging all the 10,000ft (plus) peaks in the Wasatch, focusing on climbing, or learning to make shoes. My 2017 theme was slow in inception – taking nearly
Charnov’s (1976) ‘Marginal Value Theorem’ as applied to me and hiking(?): Something like….: the forager (hiker) should leave any patch (peak/mountain range) when it (peak/mountain range) is depleted to the point (i.e. overrun) where foraging elsewhere will provide increased
Howell Peak was never high on my ‘to-do’ list- probably just due to lack of hype. Most of the House Range peaks have odd appeal- Notch Peak with its enormous western face, Swasey Peak being the highest in the