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I woke up early to get some photos of the latest lunar eclipse. These are taken from a tiny park near my house called Faultline Gardens.

Sara and I went for a weekend trip, camping in the San Rafael swell and visiting Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park.

Sara and I went for a day hike up the Pfeifferhorn. The weather was perfect and the sky was beautiful. Great day.

Pics from a weekend trip up to the Sawtooth mountains in Idaho. We camped in the Sawtooths near the 4 lakes and explored the Stanley-Challis area then visited Craters of the Moon and the Shoshone ice cave.

Pioneer day trip up to Jackson, Wyoming. We camped in Bridger national forest on the way in, then spent one night in Grand Teton and the next in Yellowstone.

Sara and I went for a vacation to the Four Corners area for her birthday weekend. We stayed one night in Mesa Verde, and also explored the Four Corners, Monument Valley, and some of Southern Utah, including Goosenecks state park, and some areas around Lake Powell and the Henry Mountains.

An overnight camping trip to Notch Peak with sylvain. Fun, as ever.

Sara and I went with a few friends down to Moab for Easter weekend. We camped near dead horse point state park and did a few hikes in the area, including a nice remote hike in Arches national park.

Sara and I took off for Pioneer day down to the Henry Mountains. These pics include some other stuff like a place near Henry Mountains called Little Egypt that looks kind of like Goblin Valley. On our way home we did the Hell's Backbone drive and went out the back way over the Aquarius Plateau.

While in France for VISAPP 2010, I took a day to visit Mt. St. Michel, a castle on the beach which is sometimes cut off from the mainland by the tide. It was a great trip, including some interesting characters on the trains and buses, and a little old couple who told me the whole story of the castle, including showing me the grave of Patton's alleged mistress. The guy had actually spent 7 or 8 years there as a teenager, and it was his first time back since then.

I got to travel to Angers, France to attend the VISIGRAPP conference. While I was there I was able to take some pictures of Angers.

Sam and I went up to Millcreek Canyon for the night. Sam skinned up on skis and I carried my board and snowshoed. It was actually not too cold (20ish) although it snowed probably half a foot. The next morning was gorgeous, we were the first people out there, did a quick run without our packs then skied/boarded back down to the jeep with backpacks on. Pretty interesting staying balanced with >=80lbs on your back!

A few friends and I went down to Zion for the weekend and hiked up to the Subway, which is a slot canyon which has been rounded out by a lot of erosion. The hike was great and we saw a few deer and a lot of mountain lion tracks among other things. At the end are some pics from inside the park that I took on Sunday before Sara and I drove back to Salt Lake.

Sara and I did a really quick hike up to Ensign Peak at sunset. It was really beautiful with the fresh snow.

Went home for Christmas. A lot of these are just me playing around with my camera on my time off.

My sister, Casey, came to Salt Lake for the weekend. We went to Adam's Canyon in Layton. It's a really nice hike. About a mile and half with a big waterfall at the end. It was pretty snowy and slick but really fun.

My parents came to town for my birthday weekend, the weekend before Thanksgiving, so I decided to freeze them to death and get the inheritance. It actually wasn't that cold up in the Uintas, but it was great because the Mirror Lake Byway was still open so we drove way in and found some good lakes to walk around. Overall a pretty cool day.

A few friends and I went out to the Rock Creek reservoir in the Uinta mountains for some camping and fishing. We caught some nice trout that we ate Saturday night. These pictures were taken while we were fishing around Arta Lake.

On day 2 of Sara and my visit back home to KY we stopped at the Falls of the Ohio. It's an exposed fossil bed on the Ohio side of the Ohio river. The 386-million-year-old fossil beds are among the largest, naturally exposed, Devonian fossil beds in the world.

On the second leg of our trip we went back to my parents' home in KY. We went to Natural Bridge and Red River Gorge state parks on a hot and humid day with scattered showers all day long, just to let Sara know what KY heat is like in early August.

Sara and I went on a week-long trip to eachother's homes. First we went to Philadelphia and did a lot of sight-seeing. We went to the Camden acquarium which I don't have pictures of on the first day. The second day we walked around downtown, saw the Rocky statue and the stairs he ran up and some other stuff around town including the Mütter Museum of medical oddities.

I took Sara out to the Bonneville Salt Flats to give her a lesson on driving stick.

Driving around in scattered thunderstorms to Stansbury Island then to Ophir in the Oquirrh Mountains and on to Utah Lake.

Another visit to Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches National Parks

Sara and I went down to Moab for a weekend for spring break. We did some hiking in Arches National Park and camped by the Colorado River. On our way home we visited Dead Horse Point and Goblin Valley state parks. We had great weather until we left Moab. We got snowed on in my Jeep with no top on at Soldier Summit on our way back to Salt Lake but I don't have any pics of that.

My roommate Grant and I went for a drive on Thanksgiving weekend. First we went to Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park. We spent the night there and moved on to Bryce Canyon, where we slept before going to Zion to do Angel's Landing on our way back to Salt Lake.

I went on a drive out to the west desert of Utah. I drove all around in the desert, crossing the old Pony Express trail before travelling to the Deep Creek mountain range and Ibapah Peak. On the trail up towards the peak I ran across a band of wild horses that looked to be in surprisingly decent shape.

A few friends and I went out to Notch Peak, which is a small mountain in the west desert of Utah with a huge sheer dropoff cliff on one side. From the top there's a 2000 ft straight drop, then a small bench and another 1000 ft drop to the creek bed.

A couple visiting French students and I went to hike to the top of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake.