The annual Firehole backpacking trip, this year to Rocky Mountain National Park. Car camping, day hiking, fishing, backpacking, you-can-camp-anywhere-but-you-can't-camp-anywhere Camping Zone, bushwacking and snow hiking at the end of July. Pictures available here.

Len, Ben, Joel, John, and Mike do a 6 night backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon. Initial trailhead is Hermit’s Rest, nights at Hermit’s Creek, Granite Rapids, Salt Creek, Horn Creek,

There’s a place in Glacier National Park called the Granite Park Chalet.  Granite Park is one of two chalets left for hikers in Glacier, the other being the Sperry Chalet.  Several chalets

Len, Ben, Mike, Tony, and Jeff’s first trip includes a traverse of the High Sierra Trail from Crescent Meadow to the Mt. Whitney Portal.  Regular hikers Joel and John are not on

Len, Ben, John, Tony, and Mike fly into Vegas, spend some time in Zion National Park and head to the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness.  They leave the Wire Pass trailhead  and hike Buckskin Gulch,

Len, Joel, Tony, John, and Mike head to the Grand Canyon for an October backcountry trip from Grandview Point, along the Tonto Trail, to Phantom Ranch and then up to the South Rim

This year, we arrived at GNP from the east on Thursday, 7/27, and were staying for three nights at Cut Bank. Our plans called for a couple of day hikes, hiking in

Len, John, Joel, and Ben will be driving non-stop from the Chicago suburbs to Yellowstone National Park, 22 hours of sheer highway excitement. Two nights at Slough Creek to start the trip, followed

Len, John, Joel, Tony, Chris, and Ben fly from Chicago to Reno, rent a couple of cars and drive to Yosemite National Park. A couple of day hikes, a night at the Merced

24 hour roadtrip in a van from the Chicago area to Glacier National park, followed by 10 days of dayhiking and backpacking. Len, John, Joel, and Joe-joe do the cross-country van trip, Tony

Year 2000 trip to Glacier National Park. Dayhiking, a trip to the Granite Park Chalet and a backcountry trek over Boulder Pass, complete with a forest fire, make this an unforgettable trip! Pictures