Leah and I made a trip out to Capitol Reef National Park a couple of weekends ago for some camping and hiking. Capitol Reef is beautiful and uncrowded compared to many of the other national parks in Utah. I found myself seeing a lot of panoramic pictures, and I loved all of the contrasting colors of different types of sandstone. I am on my way back to the southern Utah desert today to photograph a wedding in Moab.
These are from a tour I did a month ago with my friend Bryce up in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Bryce is skinning up Grizzly Gulch on the splitboard system he and his brother developed for the company they founded, Karakoram. This is your average beautiful late spring day in the Wasatch, although the clouds started to roll in on us towards the end of our climb. The next day kicked off a huge storm that dumped seven feet of snow!
My friend Paul and I got out for a short fly fishing trip a few weeks ago in northeastern Utah, on the Green River just below the Flaming Gorge Dam. It was my first experience with fly fishing, I loved it! Of course it started dumping snow on the way there, in typical form for this “spring” we’re having in Utah. We camped out the first night and awoke to six inches of snow on the tents!
I didn’t do too much fishing in the snow on the first day – it would have been a tough day to learn. I always enjoy taking pictures in crappy weather though!
Sage and Luna loved every minute of it!
We had better weather on the second day – It was warm enough to float down the river in the drift boat. Paul taught me a little bit about casting and I caught my first fish. Paul caught this fish above on the first day, in the snow.