Backpacking the Highline Trail, Utah

[Aaron Zagrodnick]

5am – July 4^th 2013 – “What in the hell am I doing?” pops into my head before getting a few hours of sleep. The previous night entailed 8 hours of driving to shuttle my car to the end of Forest Road 43 in the middle of nowhere. After leaving it in darkness on the far eastern slope of the Uinta Mountain Range, we switched cars and drove another five hours to reach our destination. My GPS showed that I was over 55 miles away from where we had left the car, but I knew the trek to get there would be closer to 80. There was no escape route or plan B, just the car at the end and four days to make it there.

Ted Ehrlich takes us along an impressive backpacking route through Utah’s Uinta Mountain Range, Issue 11:

High Exposure in Utah

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