Camping with Tim (up Red Pine)

I met Tim at Danny and Jannifer's place and after getting his pack loaded and some shopping at a local Fresh Market, we headed up to the mountains. We were on the Red Pine trail by about 1pm.

Starting up the trail.

Looking back down Little Cottonwood canyon.


Fall foliage and snow-capped peaks.

At the crossing of White Pine stream, heading over to the Red Pine drainage.

After crossing the Red Pine stream, we hiked another 15 minutes and then I decided to scramble up a gully to scout for decent camping spots. At this elevation (8800+ feet) we had a good 6 inches - 1 foot of snow on the trail. Our challenge was to find a dry spot without snow, fairly level, and not too rocky. Before long I found two spots, and we settled on the latter. Tim then scouted out from there to find an ideal spot to build our campfire.

Most of the wood on the ground was wet, but there were plenty of dead branches on the surrounding pine trees that were perfect for fuel.

Tim's chicken sausage, avocado, and tomato sandwich on ciabata bread--YUM!

I took an evening jaunt over towards the Maybird lakes (didn't quite make it there) to keep myself warm and test it out for a hike the following morning.


The last of the light over Antelope island and the Great Salt Lake.

Tim settles in to his mummy bag which kept him nice and toasty through the night.

I got up a bit before 7 am and headed over to the Maybird lakes.

The sun on the ridge with Maybird lake below.

The Pfiefferhorn above with a frozen Maybird lake below.


Looking down from the lake to the Broad's fork Twin Peaks on the other side of Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Gorgeous Autumn foliage on the north side of Little Cottonwood canyon.