This site catalogs some of my various trips in the mountains of Colorado and Utah over the past seven years. Not all trips are documented here, since I've done so many I can't even remember them all now, and on a lot of them I didn't take any pictures or write a trip report. A total vanity site, I admit!
Use the Trip Reports menu on the right to access the various trip reports and photos. You can also use the Google Map below to zoom in and look at the various areas of my "playground."
Jim Lehmer - Me! I started hiking and backpacking in Boy Scouts in the 1970s (Troop 171 in Boulder, Colorado). Dropped it when I moved away from Colorado
between 1978 and 1991. Then started back up again, and haven't stopped since.
(Photo by Mike Slinkard)
Mike Slinkard - Mike has been my friend since we were both eight years old at Whittier Elementary School. Hence we can hang out on trips and not have to talk much, as shown here! We have
a knack for getting ourselves into "interesting" situations, usually brought about by our disdain for following trails - trails are where the people are, and we go to the mountains to get away
from them. So far, we've been able to get ourselves out of all of those spots!
(Photo by Jim Lehmer)
John Stoddard - John and I worked together three times between 1992 and 2005. John was an experienced rock and alpine climber with scores of climbs in Yosemite, the Cascades, Southern
and Canadian Rockies and Alaska. He was a very patient teacher of various mountaineering techniques. I miss him terribly.
(Photo by Jim Lehmer)
Sally Stoddard - "Sal-Ra" was John's wife and climbing partner, and remains a good friend.
(Photo by Jim Lehmer)
Leslie Lehmer - Last but not least is Les, my "better half". She has done some snow shoeing with me in 2001-2002 near Ouray and then in Cataract
Gulch near Lake City. Les is shown here near Lake City at the Alferd Packer memorial site (probably responding to some dumb joke from
me themed around "Eat me" :-).
(Photo by Jim Lehmer)