Did you end up going?

Don’t know how I missed this. Thanks! Definite potentially weird conditions, but if I can backpack later into the season here, I will!

Thanks. I believe the salamanders burrow under mud and go into a sort of torpor. There are a ton of meadows and marshes. It seems like the area supports a large variety of wildlife.

My SO read about the wolf sighting. We weren’t too far from Wyoming, which could explain it. I’m not sure of they’ve done it yet, but the state was planning on releasing some wolves as well.

Sad to hear about the fire but it’s all too common.

Yes, definitely. UC Boulder did a study and found that 84% of wildfires are human-caused. Nuts.

Got out for a few days. Originally planned for 4 days, but Monday’s weather was nasty and Friday was supposed to get snow and 50 mph winds, so we cut out part of the route and did 3. We got snowed/sleeted on the first night and woke to a completely glazed over tent. Super fun to clean up before packing up.

The rest of the trip was mostly uneventful beside winds picking up as the trip went on. We saw plenty of wildlife. Moose, elk, owls, bats, pika, a salamander. Someone supposedly saw a wolf there recently. Below is a very fresh mtn goat kill we found up on the ridge line.

We didn’t see more than a few people the whole time, but that didn’t keep us from having to put out someone’s still very alive bed of coals at their campsite. They could’ve easily taken the 5 minutes to do it as they were less than 100 feet from water. Extremely annoying.

Good trip otherwise. The fall colors were really starting to pop.

Cool, report. Very well written. I enjoyed this thoroughly. Not sure if you were keeping a journal or just wrote it that way, but it’s narratively effective.

One could be bummed about having to bail due to weather, but you made the right decision in the moment. And it doesn’t sound like a wasted trip at all. You saw some cool stuff, met cool people, got to hang out in/around SLC and got more hiking in where you could.

I know there wasn’t much time, but are there any changes you made to your setup you were happy with or things you would’ve done differently in retrospect?

Also, John Kricfalusi 2.0.

Potentially. You could engineer potatoes to produce more of certain starches and less moisture, so it would fry up crispier than normal.

No.

I have two printers a HL-L2350DW b&w laser printer and a label printer. The laser printer is connected to our wifi and is detected in Fedora and Ubuntu without having to install additional drivers.

Maybe that’s one of the features you can enable.

Director of Chrono Trigger, Takashi Tokita, directed Live a Live the year prior. Definitely a throughline there.