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  Climbing Bridger Peak was a walk in the park. When the guide book said that you get to leave the trail and start bushwhacking to get to the summit I was worried. I didn’t want to get into a similar situation as I did on Bull Mountain. The trail pretty much goes straight up…

  I knew that I was going to have some tough climbs when I decided I wanted to bag all these peaks, but Bull Mountain blew my expectations of misery away. It started out innocent enough with a very nice trail heading gradually up into a canyon, following the path of a stream at a…

  This was a fun little peak to climb. It’s got really high elevation, but you don’t have to climb that much to get to the top. There’s no trail, so getting there can be a challenge without a GPS to keep you on track until you can see the summit, and to help you…

I think it was around February that I initially came across the notion of climbing the highest point in each of Utah’s counties. I went out and found the guidebook for doing it. I purchased a GPS (Magellan Sportrak Pro), topo software to load onto the GPS, new hiking boots (my old ones were the…