2012 Outdoor Plans

It's here!  Summer time is here!

This years planned activities include:

• Winter Grand Canyon Trip (cancelled, two plausable excuses are listed below).
• A float trip down the Green River from Gates of Lodore to Split Mountain (completed in early May).
• A Varsity Scout biking trip in the Moab, UT area.  Plans include the infamous slick rock trail.
• Yampa River float trip - it may be cancelled due to lack of water.
• Snake River float trip between Jackson Hole and Palisades Resevoir.
• Bike The Bear - a 50 mile bike ride around Bear Lake.  Two trips around makes a century.
• A hike down the Virgin River Narrows in Zion, followed by a mountain bike trip just outside the park.
• 5th Annual Columbus Day Packpacking trip.  Hopefully at Royal Arch and Elves Chasm in the Grand Canyon.

In addition, I may get invited on a weeklong float trip of the Salmon River in September.  If it all happens, it will be a busy summer, but that is what summers are for.

I had hoped to go down the Grand Canyon for a few days in February.  Didn't happen.  I found two excuses that will work:

• Couldn't find someone willing to go down with me - jobs keep getting in the way.  
• I broke a rib playing basketball.  Broken ribs cancelled any thought of doing a solo hike in the GC.

Ribs are healed, summer is here, it's time to get busy and have some fun.