I’ve been focusing a lot on a backpacking trip to Utah the first week in September. I’m going with a good friend Luke. He’s gone there several years in a row and has wanted to get into the canyon we’re trekking into this year. In fact, this is a picture of him staring, longingly, into the canyon we’re going to this year.

What’s different this year is he’s purchased an ATV to go along with his father’s (who is also going). So we’ll have two ATV’s to haul gear and bodies into the canyon. Once we reach base camp, we’re going to take day hikes here and there looking for water, indian ruins, avoiding sidewinder rattlers, and catching lizards (yeah, catching lizards).

Here is a network linked Google Earth file of our routes, camp positions, etc. It’s still being developed so if you’re curious you can refresh it periodically. You might have to rename the downloaded file to ‘basecamp.kmz’. It gets a .txt extension from some browsers for some reason.

I sent this IM to Luke this morning, after getting myself all psyched-up about going:

BTW, no more bullshit talk about ‘if we can’t make it into Mike’s Canyon’. We’ll have 2 ATV’s, 100+ pounds of water (hopefully) and an ass-load of testosterone. We’re making it into that crack like it was the backside of a cheap hooker on a Friday night.

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