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Lewis River, WA, October

Mount Rainier NP, August

Avalanche Canyon, Grand Teton NP, June

Capitol Reef NP, April

Our favorite campground is Slough Creek, reached from a good 3-mile gravel road off the highway near the Lamar Valley. It is right on the creek and feels like a FS campground instead of an...

The most prominent user of the word "chokestone" that I know of also spells the word "photo" with an "f" and inexplicably believes that "tamarisk" and "tamarack" are different words for the same...

I also mean no disrespect to anyone. But with this attitude, you might be depriving yourself of a rewarding set of experiences. Several years ago, I first joined one of these online sandboxes...

Kelsey's opinions nothwithstanding, there are no tamaracks in Utah, and especially not at Lake Powell. There is tamarisk. Tamaracks are something else entirely (a kind of larch--which is a genus of...

If you haven't read Photographing the Southwest: vol. 1 by Laurent Martres, you probably should. His southwest series is very well done, with lots of hints about viewpoints and time of day about a...

Very nice effort. Cross-country travel in the Sawtooths is one of life's exquisite joys.

Like many places, the Sawtooths received gobs of snow this winter. It is still much deeper and later than usual, and the melt-off is more comparable to the Tetons (agonizingly slow) than the...

Just went camping in that area last week. Lots of people like Sunrise campground, but personally I'd stay somewhere else. It's just too close to the nonstop traffic on 89. We went up St. Charles...

First, nice shots. You have some great stuff.

Second, I have to disagree with the idea that nobody cares about landscapes without people. I prefer them without, although maybe I'm just a closet...

Many trails and routes there, written up in books and on the web. My best advice is to read up--you're in Boise? Boise has a fine public library, with many copies of area guidebooks. Or go to...

I see 2 major advantages of using an SLR over a small format camera in slots: the much improved high ISO performance and the ability to use an ultrawide lens (mine is a 12-24 on a crop sensor). For...

I took a young child there a few years ago. Many good options (with a caveat).

Second the Avalanche area. It is cloaked with lovely Columbian forest (think red cedar; not the spindly lodgepole...

From two hikes. First to Lake of the Crags in the Tetons. It's above Jenny Lake and gains about 3000 feet in 3-ish miles. Fairly popular despite the grade, passing one pond and 2 lakes. Best...

That's odd. Trackrunner IS quoting snotel data, but it's from the "older" site:

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/sntl-data0000.jsp?site=561&days=7&state=ut

Reads 23.6 SWE and 78 inches deep,...

None firsthand. The Canyoneering Northwest website can point you in the general direction. There's also a flickr user (I believe his handle is "walksonrocks" who's done some packrafting along one...

For sheer reading pleasure, nothing beats Fred Beckey's 3-volume Cascade Alpine Guide. Beta is sometimes detailed, sometimes not, but it is extremely informative and his admiration for the area...

Hart's Draw Bridge.

http://www.archmillennium.net/images/harts_draw_down.jpg

Picture from Guilain Debossens' website:

http://www.archmillennium.net/Harts_Draw_Bridge.htm

Don't go to FF just to tick something off your list. It's a fun social event. Depending on when you go, you might do something new, or you might not . . . you might split into a few groups or just...

I specifically asked about this a couple weeks ago. At that time, they were just concluding releases related to an endangered fish and were not necessarily irrigating, but they said "up to 15 cfs"...

Alaska Basin is reached from the S fork of Teton Canyon. Table Mountain is from the N fork. Although the trailheads are within a couple of hundred yards from each other at the end of the road.

From a hike in late July. The Table Mountain trail climbs 4000 feet in 6 miles to a nicely situated summit just west of the Grand, with the last two miles perched on a ridgetop. Pretty day. Saw...