August 2014 Uintas

We spent 2 nights in the Uintas with Isaac, Savannah, and Sophia.  Joining us were Dan and his kids Luke and Eliza.  I bought a guide book from Amazon about hiking the Uintas and used this information to find the trailhead, big mistake.  The descriptions told the hiker to follow this river to a tributary and follow that up to the lake.  The lakes were only 2 miles in so I thought bush wacking would be okay.  There was no trail and the forest was thick with many deadfalls.  I scouted ahead at one point and took a nasty fall, see the photo of my leg.  Anyway, after 2 hours of hiking we find a dirt road with a truck on it?!!!  Turns out you can take a four wheel drive road to 1/2 mile from the lake and there were 2 trucks parked there. 
The stupid book!!
The fishing was not very good, but we all had an enjoyable trip and things went well from that point on.  We hiked out on the dirt road which was longer, but easy going.  Once to the main road, I jogged back to my truck.