Backpacking & Solo Camping in the Snow Covered Mountains of Utah.
For this 3 day fall backpacking trip, I headed to the Wasatch Range to explore some snowy higher elevation trails in the mountains overlooking Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
The Wasatch Mountains span roughly 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border down through central Utah, forming the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the Great Basin region. I chose to do an end to end hike for this trip, starting near Ogden, UT and utilizing a portion of the Great Western trail to hike along the ridge overlooking the Great Salt Lake nearly 5,000 feet below.
With a daily temperature range in the upper 70’s down to a bit below freezing at night, I decided to try my luck and still keep my backpacking load-out relatively minimal with just a 3 season sleeping pad , …