Trail Log

A record of the hikes I've taken west of the Mississippi, plus a few close to home. Most were recorded with a GPS track and a camera on my chest snapping a frame every minute. Try importing the GPX files into Google Earth or Maps to see the terrain and zoom in.

Grand Teton NP · August 16, 2014

Lake Solitude

19 mi round trip
2,700 ft gain
9,000 ft at the lake

My favorite hike in the world, a nostalgic repeat of the one I took over 30 years earlier during a six-month leave from Bell Labs. From Jenny Lake up Cascade Canyon you're behind the front peaks, looking into the interior range. A ranger said the moose were hiding this year; three hours later I'd run into five (not literally).

Photos Chest-cam Videos GPX track

Castle Trail loop in Badlands NP, topographic map

Badlands NP · South Dakota

Castle, Medicine Root & Saddle Pass

A loop from the Castle Trail through Medicine Root to Saddle Pass and back along Castle Rock. I had the camera strapped to my chest and it recorded until the battery ran out, so there's a hiker's-eye view alongside the "good" camera's panoramas.

Photos Chest-cam GPX track

Black Hills · South Dakota

Harney Peak

The high point of the Black Hills, hiked during our stay in Hermosa, between bouts of the wild weather that kept clobbering Rapid City.

Photos GPX track

Buffalo · Wyoming

Clear Creek Trail (Mentock section)

The hiking and biking trail started near our campground, ran through town and out into the forest at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains.

Mentock Hike Photos GPX track

Island Park · Idaho

Henrys Lake Trail

Hiked from Red Rock RV Park, our base for three weeks and a half-hour from Yellowstone's West Entrance. The campground setting was extraordinary.

Scenery GPX track

More trails

Photos only

These hikes have photo albums but no surviving map images.

Yellowstone NP

Mt. Washburn

6 mi
1,400 ft gain
10,000 ft summit

From the Grand Loop Road pull-out. Chest-cam covers the upward trip only.

Photos Chest-cam

Grand Teton NP

Amphitheater Lake

10.1 mi
3,000 ft climbing
9,698 ft at the lake

Up all the way from the start, with views of the valley and the Tetons from the interior. I caught some climbers on video, then turned back from Garnet Canyon when it got dicey.

Photos Chest-cam

Harriman State Park · Idaho