A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
When we were heading into Utah, my friend Tina let us know that her family would probably be passing through for a hike as they headed out to Oregon. They would be in the Capitol Reef National Park for one morning for one hike. Would we want to meet them? After we wasted some days…
We decided to keep heading south into Utah, knowing that there was a lot that we wanted to explore there. Trying to get truly out of the smoke meant that we had some long days of driving, but we tried to find some interesting things to do along the way as we headed toward some…
After leaving Fantasy Canyon (and having to go back for a forgotten water bottle), we had a long drive to get to our stop just north of Arches National Park. We headed across more mountains, into Colorado for a bit and then back into Utah. We were driving on pretty desolate roads some of the…
Looking at air quality maps, we decided that we would head down into Utah to hopefully see the sun again and get into air that made us actually want to be active again. We made it down to McCammon Idaho and found our first BLM land to camp on. We had watched the landscape change…
We planned to visit my cousin Jenn and her husband James when we went to Glacier, hoping to catch up and spend some time with them as well as take advantage of them a little, mainly their large driveway for parking the trailer for a bit and their brains for what we should explore while…
We had gotten a taste of Jewel Basin when Jenn took us on our first hike in Montana and we wanted to spend some more time exploring it. We got our backpacks ready for a couple of nights in the basin and drove up to Camp Misery to set off. Last time we headed south…
After we hiked to Cyclone Lookout, we continued south on the North Fork Road, hoping to find a campsite that was close to the West Glacier entrance to the park. We had heard that we needed to get into the park early to be able to get a parking spot near the hikes we wanted…
Jenn gave us some good hiking and camping recommendations in the Whitefish Range so we dropped the trailer at their house and then headed back north for our first car/ tent camping of the trip. The Whitefish range is west of glacier and runs up to Canada. We made our way on gravel roads through…
On a map, nothing in Montana looks too far away, but it is a big state and the mountains do tend to make straight line travel a little difficult. It was about an hour from Jenn and James’s to the Upper Stillwater Campground and when we started looking around, we realized that we would probably…
We had a stretch of cooler days, so decided to focus on non-water activities for a bit. Just down the road from our campsite, the Superior Hiking Trail crossed the road at Britton Peak. This trail head seemed to be a hub for a lot of activities: trails exclusively for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, a…