You guys are fantastic getting your even REALLY small ones out! I asked Jess. Trip Report: Family of Five Backpacking into Willow Heights Lake, Wasatch Range, Trip Report: Backpacking the Notch Trail, High Uintas, Family Snowshoe Trails [Salt Lake City, UT]. Not enough to stop us from going but certainly in the back of my mind I was doubting where this day might take us. A major afternoon thunderstorm forced us to hunker down at camp until it passed. Kermsuh Lake is an alpine lake in the High Uintas Wilderness. We were also surprised by how big and expansive it was. That evening we collected firewood, and enjoyed our marshmallows and wine in the heated glow of the flames. Naturalist Basin is located in the High Uintas Wilderness, and home to several lakes including the popular Blue Lake and Jordan Lake.Because Jordan Lake is only 6.5 miles one way, this makes for a great backpacking destination or a bigger day hike! Three young children… That’s alot of food to pack. Happy trails~ It's so nice to see that you get all the kids out! Beautiful photos! Also from near our camp, was a great view out across Wall Lake. We love our family. Clyde Lake makes such a scenic spot to enjoy a meal. Jessica took a year off last year due to the birth of our newborn … A good 15 minute downpour. I am a Jesus lover, wife, mom, rock climber, skier, photographer and all around adventure lover with a passion for writing. July 13, ... With the new addition to our party, we doubled our mileage by doing the Clyde Lake Loop. The kids got to wander and explore around a camp a bit while breakfast was made. Along the way, we'd make a stop at the famous Fairy Forest off the Mirror Lake Highway. The Uintas sure are a special place with … Multiple family wilderness outing IS a challenging task, at least from my experience, but it looks like you guys had a blast. I’d like to call the Uintas, “the land of lakes.” It should also be called, “the land of family adventure” because there is a ton of exploring to be done that is easy to access, generally easy to navigate, and truly beautiful. We have a lightweight foldable potty seat that can easily be set over a hole dug out between 2 to 3 rocks. The entire route is very gradual, only gaining 1,700 ft over 6.7 miles. In one way, you could say it was actually two different trips i... Last week I sent out an invite to a few friends and acquaintances to see if anyone wanted to brave the crowds with me and hike a local fa... Stewart Falls offers a short and relatively easy hike near Sundance Ski Resort and the BYU Aspen Grove Camp. But by the time we reached Cliff Lake, the rain had stopped. This comment has been removed by the author. After Clyde Lake, it's a short hop on the singletrack to Twin Lakes and just a bit farther to the well-marked junction with the Notch Mountain Trail #81. I’d never thru-hiked before, and I’d never spent more than a weekend backpacking alone. There was. The snowy weather didn’t let us get too deep into the wilderness, but we still got a great taste of Utah’s high elevation mountains and lakes on the trail to Clyde Lake. The trail runs around 100 miles through the High Uintas Wilderness and Ashley National Forest. And we love both of those things more when we are exploring the outdoors together. Our wish had been granted. Not only because of a beautiful little cascading waterfall that begins the river, but because we live in Provo, where the river finishes it's journey as it feeds into Utah Lake. The trail is fairly mellow, only gaining 1,600 ft and has one switchback. Everett usually has a nap in the morning so I offered up my hammock to Jess so she could lay down with him and rock him to sleep. Again, I'm starting from the Echo Lakes Taxi dock and head up toward Lake Aloha on the PCT. The trail offers a number of activity options and is best used from July until September. On Friday, we took a hike off trail and up to Clyde Lake, around to North Twin Lake, past The Notch, and back down the trail to Wall Lake from the east. Later in the year the stream bed will be more of a trickling stream making a dry crossing much easier with more rocks exposed. . All we had to do was cross the little inlet that flows into the lower of Twin Lakes from the upper lake and then navigate our way around some snow banks on the other side. The night before, I had made sure it was ok with Jess if I were to leave camp early in the morning and make an attempt at bagging Mount Watson's summit. The view IS incredible from up on the bench. The Uintas sure are a special place with great views to be had almost anywhere up there. Bring your pole for sure--the brook are huge and are hungry as a bear in the early morning. A little more at 12.68 pounds. Preferably somewhere that doesn't have a … Such a cute backpacking family. The boys will enjoy it too," she responded. The High Uinta WIlderness is home to a plethora of great backpacking options and a hike to Amethyst Basin is among the very best. The beautiful Naturalist Basin is the site for many pleasant hiking trails, and is the ideal spot for a backpacking or camping trip. And so were the kids. View fullsize. The compromise was that as I kept moving forward, I could periodically turn back and see the sunrise from a multitude of vantage points. At roughly 2 miles we reached the southern end of Clyde Lake. Contact us. Still, it's a great area to do some family backpacking with kids and campsites are plenty. Everyone has a champion. Your email address will not be published. 10 years ago, I took my daughter here when she was 6 camping at Twin. Family Backpacking: Clyde Lake Loop. She's the second oldest but her body type is more stocky. After an inspiring all-women’s backpacking trip in Colorado last year, I was motivated to plan my first trip out here in Utah. Finding parking at the trailhead on a weekend would be a different matter. - Alicia @ www.girlonahike.com. It makes sense to me that that group of three little lakes strung so close together in a row there would be the Three Divide Lakes with Booker Lake being the one just northeast of Three. Yup, I’d say we experienced the same thing! Allsop Lake sits on the Northern slope of the High Uintas Wilderness at an elevation of 10, 600 ft. Dogs are also able to use this trail. It's 9 miles to the lake, so it makes for a perfect 1 or 2-night backpacking trip. Why bother? links úteis e interessantes "While I'd love to have you and the boys along, I can still take just the girls if you think it'll be too stressful.". Very Cool! It makes a convenient little latrine. 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