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Utah back country

3.4K views 22 replies 17 participants last post by  mir207  
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...Damn I love living in this state....went fishing today(6/11) ...excellent day on the streams...drakes, caddis, mayfly, stonefly, goldenstonefly....you name it the bugs were alive and the fish were rising to the dries......sorry no fish-porn....was by myself and I don't have a third hand to take the pics while I held the fish with the two that I have...

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...and a few other bugs that I came across while fishing...who wouldn't like butterflies??

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...heading back to TiAg after a long day in the streams/beaverponds below Currant Creek Reservoir...

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...instead of taking the freeway home...I decided to take the back roads through the mountains back home to Heber...

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....this one is for everyone down south where snow is only a myth...yeah its not much...elevation 10K+/-...

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...and some more shots of Utah back-country (Uinta National Forest)....these meadows and hills provide some of the greatest snowmobiling....

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....heading home....and to think all of this is only 25 minutes/30 miles away...gotta love it!!!

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...found lots of side trails , but I didn't have time to go exploring...that will be for another day...
 
#3 ·
Nice! I gotta visit that state someday. I heard there is some great 4x4 and Mtn bikeing.:roller:
 
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Nice pictures. I was in the Uintas driving from Mountain View, Wy over the back roads to Hwy 150 and then back to Evanston, Wy on Monday. On Tuesday I was down around Sheep Creek and Spirit Lake. It was beautiful down there. I need to get some pictures and then learn to post them next time.
 
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....and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles....and it smells even better than it looks if you know what I mean(sage, wildflowers, pine, grasses, dirt/mud...etc.)

Thanks for sharing the pictures. The American West sure is a great place. I hope that increasing populations don't take a toll on our great landscape.
I hear you the "Wasatch front" (Salt Lake City area) is being squeezed tight between the mountain ranges and the lake with as much development as they can build...thats one reason why I live in the "Wasatch back" on the eastern side of the Wasatch range....

Thanks super Fly!!

Utah is one heckuva special place. Your lucky to live there.

Thanks for sharing. Feel free to add more threads with spectacular scenery.

Can't get enough.

....anytime....always out and about fishing 2-3 times a week in the mountains....I'll keep'em coming...

I love living in Utah as well for the back country opportunities. I live in Santaquin and am 5 miles and 10 minutes away from the Uinta Forest border (at least a road, the forest itself (dry mtn) is right out my backyard). I'm camping in the pines in 15 minutes. :)

This morning I got up early and met a friend and we drove the forest road that goes from Squaw Peak to Hobble Creek. Took about 3 hours, saw deer, turkeys, snow, fresh elk tracks, etc. I'll start my own thread with some very similar pics after I get home from work tonight.

We need a Utah FJ trail run soon...
...yeah I live 20 minutes from Strawberry Reservoir....5 minutes away from the Middle Provo river...and Deer Creek Res. .....10 minutes from Jordanelle Res....20 minutes to Park City(where I work)....these pics were taken up around Tower Mountain...above Heber/Strawberry valleys....
 
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Thanks for sharing the pictures. The American West sure is a great place. I hope that increasing populations don't take a toll on our great landscape.
 
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Thanks super Fly!!

Utah is one heckuva special place. Your lucky to live there.

Thanks for sharing. Feel free to add more threads with spectacular scenery.

Can't get enough.
 
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I love living in Utah as well for the back country opportunities. I live in Santaquin and am 5 miles and 10 minutes away from the Uinta Forest border (at least a road, the forest itself (dry mtn) is right out my backyard). I'm camping in the pines in 15 minutes. :)

This morning I got up early and met a friend and we drove the forest road that goes from Squaw Peak to Hobble Creek. Took about 3 hours, saw deer, turkeys, snow, fresh elk tracks, etc. I'll start my own thread with some very similar pics after I get home from work tonight.

We need a Utah FJ trail run soon...
 
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...didn't you hear??? we reached our yearly quota on Californians moving here to UT about a month ago....I don't think CO or ID have hit their quotas yet you might want to look into that...........:) j/k......welcome to a place with 4 seasons....where will you be living??
 
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i met a couple last week that just moved to la from salt lake, so they let me take their spot. so it alright.:cool:

ill be in park city. right at kimball junction in the newpark 'toon' town homes.

i was just out there memorial day checking out the condo, and saw about 8 fj's. before that in the winter i saw only one voodoo going up the old mine road. so both the fj and i are excited to join you and all the other fellow fjer's in the beautiful area.
 
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Well....since there was a trade involved everything should balance out.....now don't go telling your friends about how great this place...btw I work there in Park City...actually right next to your Toontown condos at the post office there at the junction...

We are lucky. I took a similar drive last weekend. Great shots Fly!
Where did your FJ lead you MRat???....there seems to be more and more Wasatch FJ's....we should get a few of us together sometime (meet & greet) and find a few trails in the mountains....
 
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I used to live in Escalante, Cedar City, Enoch, and Parwon, UT when I was a kid.......I miss the smell of sage brush after a new rain! I would love to take the FJ on some of the red rocks on the way to Boulder through Calf Creek.
 
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Years ago I made the run up Boulder Mountain to the lakes on top in an FJ40 and it handled it well. Now, years later I made the same run in the FJ Cruiser and was surprised how well it handled the steep rocky road. I'm relying on memory here but I think that the FJC handled it even better than the FJ40. I did smash up the front skid plate on the FJC but otherwise, it ran the route like a champ. It's a great place to play with the FJ.
 
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Those pics bring back memories of Schofield and Huntington canon just west of Price Utah. Thats where my Grandpa had a farm. We would go there every June for a week and fish Schofield lake and below the dam, Huntington canon. and Strawberry. Some of the best fish there is. Thanks for the pics. Oh ya Utah has the bluest skies:) .
 
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As an unbiased foreigner, I find UT to be the most beautiful state I've seen (NV, AZ, CO, and MN are also up there - and the much (overly) maligned CA :) CA, baby!)

Shots from a year ago in UT:

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