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Category Archives: Hiking
Zion National Park, Great West Canyon – Fall, 1977
The Great West Canyon hike begins at the Lava Point lookout, in the Kolob section of Zion NP. Kathy and I arrived there in the Fall of 1977, having heard great things about the hike from our colleagues at the Southwest Outward … Continue reading
SWA Flights, 2016 – ABQ to Oak and Portland to ABQ
On April 28, 2016, Kathy and I flew to Oakland, to celebrate my son Ethan’s marriage to Florence (Flo) Landau. The wedding took place in Sonoma County, and this is the link to that post: https://believesteve.org/2016/05/04/ethan-and-flo-marry-april-30-2016/ But this post is … Continue reading
Posted in 1960s, 1970s, Fishing, Hiking, Mountaineering, Personal history, Photography, Rock climbing, SWA Flights-photography
Tagged Albuquerque, altamont, behind the rocks utah, boise idaho, center-pivot, Colorado River, desolation canyon, dolores river, gray canyon, great salt lake, green river utah, heber utah, la sal mountains, Lake Mead, mc phee reservoir, moab utah, mt adams, mt hood oregon, mt st helens, Mt. Rainier, navajo lake, oakland california, park city utah, portland oregon, Rincon, salt lake city, San Juan River, sawtooth mountains idaho, shoshone falls idaho, tremonton utah, volcano, wind turbine
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Lassen Volcanic National Park – Summer, 1959
During the winter of 1958-59, I was working in the advertising business in New York City – just like you see in the show “Madmen”. The ad agency, McCarty Co., was located in the Chanin Bldg., on the corner of … Continue reading
Posted in 1950s, Fishing, Hiking, Personal history, Photography, Skiing, Uncategorized
Tagged Berkeley california, brook trout, bumpas hell, hat creek california, Lassen Volcanic National park, manzanita lake, mount lassen, shasta lake, sulphur works, university of california berkeley, Winter Park colorado
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Glacier National Park – Summer, 1957
At the conclusion of my first year at the University of Chicago, I traveled up to St.Paul, MN, to catch the Great Northern Railway to Glacier National Park. The railway owned the hotel concession in Glacier, and provided free transportation … Continue reading
Posted in 1950s, Fishing, Hiking, Personal history, Photography
Tagged beargrass, bellhop, browning montana, east glacier montana, glacier national park montana, going to the sun highway, lake sherburne, mcdonald valley, mt. cleveland, prince of wales hotel, ptarmigan tunnel, rodeo, swiftcurrent glacier, two medicine valley, university of chicago, vintage touring car, waterton lake
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Aravaipa Canyon, AZ – November, 1988
First, I put many thousands of photos on Flickr. Now, I’m posting blogs about my early adventures, as a way of “writing” my memoirs. Some of these blogs contain a link to a photo collection already on Flickr, to save having to … Continue reading
Posted in Hiking, Photography
Tagged agave, Arizona, BLM, canyon tree frog, evening primrose, sonoran desert, southwestern canyon country
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The Tetons – Summer, 1960
I went to the Tetons for the express purpose of learning to climb, and I did so by attending the Exum Mountain Guides climbing school, shortly after I arrived. I had secured a job at the Jackson Lake Lodge, as the fountain … Continue reading
Posted in Fishing, Hiking, Mountaineering, Personal history, Rock climbing
Tagged alaska basin wyoming, arctic grayling, bradley lake wyoming, brook trout, buck mountain wyoming, cascade creek wyoming, cube point wyoming, death canyon wyoming, exum mountain guides wyoming, Exum route grand teton, garnet canyon wyoming, glacier, grand teton wyoming, grebe lake, hangover pinnacle wyoming, harry frishman, ice point wyoming, jackson lake lodge wyoming, jenny lake wyoming, joe fitchen, kletterschuhe, lake of the crags wyoming, lower saddle, midlle teton wyoming, moraine, mountain majesty, mt. owen wyoming, mt. st. johns wyoming, owen rappell grand teton, phelps lake wyoming, rappelling, royal robbins, schoolroom glacier wyoming, south teton wyoming, summit register, synmettry spire wyoming, teewinot wyoming, teton glacier wyoming, upper saddle, yellowstone
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