What I’m Hiking
Photos at the top, hike log below. Photos start with some of my favorites, then are roughly in chronological order.
All photos shot with a Canon EOS R with an EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM or EF 24–105mm f/4L IS II USM (one or two with my phone).
2021: Looking up at they keyhole on Longs Peak--the beginning of the scrambling section of the route.
2021: Longs Peak looking south from the Keyhole. Boulderfield on the left, The Ledges on the right (to the summit).
2021 Longs Peak, The Ledges section.
2021: Group photo from The Ledges on Longs!
2021: Tricia descending The Trough on Longs.
2022: Descending Atlantic Peak before the torrential rain hit.
2022: Copper Mountain from the homestead at the base of Atlantic and Pacific peaks.
Favorite: Twilight in Morain Park, Rocky Mountain National Park.
Favorite: Bachelor "party"--subzero temps, 60 mph sustained winds flattening the tent, etc. Beautiful though and some serious type 2 (and type 3) fun.
Favorite: This (Seceda) was the view after topping out Forcella Pana. Absolutely incredible. The photos don't get close to doing it justice. Dolomites, Italy.
Favorite: After descending the terrifying Forcella de la Roa, Dolomites, Italy.
2021: Descending Jackass Pass down to Arrowhead Lake, Cirque of the Towers, Wyoming.
2021: Pingora Peak, Cirque of the Towers, Wyoming.
2021: Cirque of the Towers, Wyoming.
2022: Arrowhead Lake, Cirque of the Towers, Wyoming.
Favorite: Tricia Bonman at Snowmass Lake on the final evening of the Four Pass Loop.
2019: The Olde Group, Dolomites, Italy. Day 3 of backpacking epic insanity.
2021: Tricia on the approach to Chasm Lake on a very January accent.
2021: Chasm Lake on Longs Peak, frozen on a very windy day in January 2021.
2021: This snowfield is actually Emerald Lake under Hallett Peak and Flattop in RMNP. I like this photo because it looks like the photos took by the unfortunate souls who were part of the Dyatlov Pass Incident.
2021: Chasm Lake frozen in January.
Favorite: Tricia Bonman on the Millennium Block, Red Rocks Park, Colorado.
Favorite: Wahkeena Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, OR.
Favorite: Midnight hike--a new years tradition.
2021: Lush trails up Wahkeena Trail to Devil's Rest in the Columbia River Gorge, OR.
2021: Surprise Western Columbines on the misty Wahkeena Trail up to Devil's Rest.
2021: Fairy Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, OR.
2021: I don't know that a beach walk (outside of Lincoln City, OR) really counts as a hike...but it's beautiful!
2021: I don't know that a beach walk (outside of Lincoln City, OR) really counts as a hike...but it's beautiful!
2021: Melanie West topping out Button Rock Mountain in early Spring.
2021: Literal frosted tips after Estes Cone in near zero temps and sustained snow.
2021: The Columbia River Gorge from to top of Dog Mountain. Used this to test the altitude advantage coming from Colorado: made one of the hardest hikes in the gorge a total breeze.
2021: Descending after a couple jaunty 13ers (Mt. Sniktau and Cupid Peak). Surprisingly backcountry alpine feel if you take the lesser traveled descent.
2021: A successful first hike in the mountains for my cousins! Square Top Lakes.
2021: First ever mountain hike for my cousins! Kansas one day and 12,000 feet and the continental divide the next.
2020: Tricia Bonman on the approach to Mount Bierstadt.
2020: Tricia Bonman on the summit of Mount Bierstadt.
2020: Unnamed lake, the site of our campsite in Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado.
2020: Known by Larnard as Farkel Rock. Same unnamed lake near King's Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado.
2020: Headed up towards King Lake in Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado.
2020: First columbine of the 2020 season, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado.
2019: Colors.
2019: Red Rocks Park, a "hike" to scout wedding photoshoot spots.
2020: On the way up to Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
2020: Fly fishing West Maroon Lake.
2020: Snowmass Lake, Colorado.
2020: Night at Snowmass Lake, Colorado.
2020: Tricia Bonman finishing off the home stretch of Buckskin Pass on the Four Pass Loop, Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado.
2019: Bachelor "party"--Paul Bernard heading up to Sky Pond, Rocky Mountain National Park.
2019: The Loch, Rocky Mountain National Park. On the way to Sky Pond.
2019: For whatever reason, I think this picture really expresses the healthy terror we should all feel in the big mountains. Evening approaching with strong winds at under the Sharkstooth in Rocky Mountain National Park, knowing that we need to set up camp quick or things are going to get bad fast.
2019: A very rare phenomenon: snow rollers. They happen only in very specific conditions--in this case, a big dump of dry snow followed by slow warming over several days, a high slope angle in the shade, and heavy down-slope winds. At the bottom of the gorge below Andrews Glacier.
2019: A 5:00am shot of Monte Antelao, known as "King of the Dolomites".--from the approach to Tofana di Rozes in Northern Italy.
2019: At the bottom of Val Langental Vallunga on the way to Rifugio Puez, Dolomites, Italy.
2019: Overlooking Val Langental Vallunga after a pretty intense climb.
2019: Val Langental Vallunga in the evening from Rifugio Puez.
2019: Looking towards the Odle Group and Seceda, Dolomites, Italy.
2019: Starting a terrifying descent of Forcella de la Roa: maybe a tenth of a mile that took us an hour, as we preferred not to fall to our death on our honeymoon. See the next photo for a shot of the pass from a distance.
2019: Forcella de la Roa, the loose skree pass in the distant left of the photo. Insane.
2019: Another shot of Forcella de la Roa looking back after the initial descent.
2019: Beautiful Dolomites.
2019: Frayed - this pretty well describes this particular section of our hike in the Dolomites.
2019: The Puez Group in the Dolomites, Italy.
2019: At Rifugio Genova after the most difficult and terrifying day of hiking/scrambling of our lives--day 2 of honeymoon backpacking. Pretty much can't beat this. Dolomites, Italy.
2019: The Odle Group, Dolomites, Italy.
2019: The final evening of the honeymoon backpacking loop was airy and dark with rolling thunder overhead--great for reading and contemplation. Looking up to Forcella Pana, our last big, difficult, scary section. Dolomites, Italy.
2019: Heading up to Forcella Pana and EXTREMELY excited to finally experience Seceda, which had been on the list for years. Dolomites, Italy.
2019: Approaching the pass (Forcella Pana) which was a 4th class scramble. Almost to Seceda!...
2019: What it feels like to have just finished all the hard, terrifying, dangerous, strenuous sections of an epic honeymoon backpacking loop and knowing that great food is coming as soon as we meander down through an idilic mountain meadow.
2019: Seceda, Dolomites, Italy.
2019: Sassolungo in the distance: a future climbing objective. Incredible landscape.
2019: A view of our entire 26 mile loop around the Puez-Odle Altopiano. Started in Selva di Val Gardena (the town at the bottom of the photo), hiked up the valley to the right and topped out, then traversed behind the Olde Group (sharp peaks in the far distance), straight up Forcella Pana to Seceda (the green meadow in the left background, and back down to Selva again.
2018: Practicing flares, Tricia Bonman on the Millennium Block, Red Rock Park, Colorado.
2018: Icicles on the hike between the first and second Flatiron, Boulder, Colorado.
2020: South Platte area, Colorado.
2020: Lost Creek Wilderness, Colorado.
2019: Columbines near Blue Lake behind Bridal Veil Falls outside of Telluride, Colorado. Three Needles in the background.
2020: Early summer aspens in Lost Creek Wilderness, Colorado.
2018: The waterfalls near Hanging Lake, Colorado.
2018: The waterfalls near Hanging Lake Colorado.
2018: This is why we were the only ones hiking to Hanging Lake that day. One slip and that's it. The guardrails were knee or ankle height, which is just about enough to send you flipping end over end off the cliff. Spikes are critical.
2018: Snowshoeing into Pine Creek Cookhouse in Aspen, Colorado.
2019: Winter snowshoeing Mount Bierstadt in pretty extreme conditions. As you can see here, we've got a ways to go...
2019: Mount Evans Wilderness snowshoeing.
2019: Mount Albion in Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest.
2018: Snowshoeing to Brainard Lake, Colorado.
2018: Flatirons, Boulder, Colorado.
2018: Bottom of the first Flatiron, Boulder, Colorado.
2019: Clear shot of the Diamond on Long's Peak from Twin Sisters Peak trail, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
2019; Tricia Bonman nearing the summit of Twin Sisters Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
2019: Near the summit of Twin Sisters Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
2019: Near the summit of Twin Sisters Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Favorite: Hardcore winter conditions: -25° windchill, strong winds, etc. Great time to attempt Tricia's first 14er!
2021: Mountain Lion trail after Windy Peak in Golden Gate Canyon State Park. A pretty typical landscape for one of my favorite parts of the foothills.
2018: Sunset atop Turtle Rock near Buena Vista, Colorado.
2020: Near Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
2020: Camping at an unnamed lake near King Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. Insane fire smoke--had to satellite message Natasha Steinmann to make we weren't just over the ridge from an active fire.
2020: Overlooking King Lake, lots of wildfire smoke.
2020: Mount Falcon Park, Colorado.
2019: Mangled tree near N.C.A.R.
2020: Stereotypical Maroon Bells postcard shot, Colorado.
2020: Tricia Bonman descending West Maroon Pass on the Four Pass Loop, Colorado.
2020: Tricia Bonman on after topping out West Maroon Pass, Colorado.
2020: Overlooking Morain Park just a couple months before part of it was burned by the East Troublesome fire.
2020: Camped near these trees over West Maroon Pass, golden hour just before heavy rain and lightning.
2020: Tricia Bonman descending towards Snowmass Lake on the Four Pass Loop, Colorado.
2021: Big Sandy Lake as the morning fog burns off, Wind River Range, Wyoming.
2021: Dog Mountain, Columbia River Gorge.
2021: On the way up to Silver Dollar Lake, Colorado.
2020: A frozen Loch Valle, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Hike Log
Most recent hikes at the top. More hikes than not are left off because I’m lazy and won’t be adding historical hikes beyond what I’ve logged in with my Garmin, Gaia GPS, or All Trails. Planning to keep up to date starting with 2021.
Difficult rating is calibrated for the average American hiker, roughly approximating All Trails’ rating calibration.