Who the heck am I?
Michael R - The Compulsive Hiker
Recent Comments
Michael R on Making the North Sylamore Cree… Ryan on Making the North Sylamore Cree… Michael R on Staunton State Park, Colo… Carol on Staunton State Park, Colo… Michael R on North Sylamore Creek Trail…
Tag Archives: Wyoming
Wind River Range – Silas Canyon
This was a 3-day trip with RC (hike in to Island Lake, day-hike, hike out) and was part 2 of our 2023 Wind River trip. The planned day hike was either A) up onto the ridge south of Silas Canyon … Continue reading
Wind River Range – Dinwoody Lakes & Bomber Basin
My seventh trip into the Wind River Range, this one a 5-nighter accompanied by CC, RC, CE, & EE, covered some of the same ground in Bomber Basin as the 2018 trip with RC & CC. We started at the … Continue reading
Touring the Tetons
The third and final leg of the big late-summer ’22 trip is the Tetons Range. We were mostly playing tourist this time but there has already been a bit of discussion about returning to get up-close and personal with the … Continue reading
Touring Yellowstone NP
The second leg of the big late-summer ’22 trip. We came in the East Entrance from Cody WY after our Beartooth Plateau backpacking trip and drove all the way across the park to the West Entrance to get to our … Continue reading
Beartooth Plateau Loop
Rather than make trip #7 to the Wind River Range, RC, TC, CC, and I opted this year to begin our late-summer trip with a 4-day, 21-mile loop across the Beartooth Plateau in the Beartooth Mountains of NW Wyoming & … Continue reading
Wind River Range: Scab Creek to Middle Fork, Rainbow, and Raid Lakes plus others
Wind River trip #6 is in the bag. I and 3 of the usual suspects (RC, TC, & PDC) did a 6-night 35-mile “lollipop” (Aug 29 – Sep 4 2021) that took us past Toboggan, Little Divide, Lightning, Dream, Bobs, … Continue reading
Wind River Range – a Titcomb & Indian Basins loop
My 5th annual trip to the Wind River Range! This time we started in the Elkhart Park area, near Pinedale, at the Pole Creek trail head. The target area is almost entirely within the Bridger Wilderness of the Bridger-Teton National … Continue reading
Platte River Wilderness, Snowy Range, WY
The Platte River Wilderness covers about 23K acres of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest in southern Wyoming’s Snowy Range and was the site of a recent 3-day trip. Our original plan was for an area about 20 miles north near … Continue reading
Wind River Range – a Bomber Basin & Ross Lakes loop
This year’s trip in Wyoming’s Wind River Range was 7 days in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, in the northeast area. Starting at the Trail Lake trail head south of Dubois, we ascended south into Bomber Basin to near Turquoise Lake, then … Continue reading
Wind River Range: take 3
For the third year in a row the big summer trip was in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. There were 5 of us this year, with RC & TC also returning for their 3rd trip and adding first-timers PD-C & CC. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Continental Divide Trail, Hiking, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming
2 Comments
The Compulsive Hiker 