"9.12.2021~3.25 miles, 1,600’ gain. This was a Recovery hike to 3 peaks near Cedar City. The Red Hill & Mount Thor traverse with peak 7,068’ via Red Hollow trail. I ran the Cedar City half marathon yesterday and these peaks had great views of The Cedar Canyon Race Course I was on. The Red Hill had a few summit blocks so I climbed all three. I soaked in Coal Creek after. Utah is so pretty. " — paula.raimondi • Sep 12, 2021

"9.11.2021~I took a trip with my twin daughters to Cedar City so they could see their friend and I could run the Cedar City Half Marathon (run in 2:08hrs) We did this after the race. It’s a drive up 11,307’ peak with a short RT hike of .25 miles. We viewed the Cedar Breaks National Monument too. Fun mini run~cation." — paula.raimondi • Sep 11, 2021

"Lovely climb from La Sal Pass. Drive up to the pass was fine, creek crossing was manageable in an AWD Honda CRV. Ducked route up the gully to where a use trail takes off up the face. Smoky skies obscured views to the west, but the Rockies were visible to the east." — edg • Sep 9, 2021

"Approached from Timothy Lakes, Swift Creek Drainage. Hiked talus to the saddle north of Mt. Emmons and the walked the NW Ridge to the summit plateau. Like most Uinta summits this involves a lot (~2400') of talus hopping. Round trip from camp was a leisurely 6hrs." — mark.r.johnston • Sep 5, 2021

"I've been meaning to do the Virgin River Rim Trail as a backpack, but life hasn't cooperated. So, it was nice to at least be on part of the trail - a nice, long, basically 11 mile loop hike where we added in Andy Nelson Peak and Navajo Peak. To describe the former, I'll use one word: steep. To describe the latter, I'll use a different word: views. Also, gradual. Andy Nelson Peak was unfortunately pretty steep from the saddle, but had a beautiful expanse of yellow snakeweed and spectacular views of Navajo Lake from (basically) the top. Navajo Peak was a lot more gradual and had the best dang views of the backside of Zion and Strawberry Ridge/the rest of the Virgin River Rim Trail. More fallen logs to navigate to get to the summit of Navajo Peak versus Andy Nelson Peak, which had more scrub/shrubs and was just danged steep. The weather was gorgeous, it was not hard to find a way up either summit, and it was just a great day. And I didn't do too badly for not having seriously hiked, and especially not having hiked at elevation, since Memorial Day!" — psychikingjes • Sep 4, 2021