Backcountry ski yurt trip

Pictures from our5-day 4-night  trip to Bear River Yurt system in the Uinta Mountains in northern Utah.  YAH MULE! Jolie taking the first leg of carrying our 50+ pound pulk.

A pretty view of trail and Aspens. Most of the trail to the yurts is groomed for XC skiing or for snowmobiles (we went during the week so we didn't run into too many snowmobiles)

Much of the area burned (don't know how many years ago), but it makes for pretty views like this and opens up the slopes for skiing

Our tracks after a day of skiing

Another pic of jolie pulling the polk (I pulled it too …. really)

The most remote yurt in the system(Boundary Yurt)  has a great sunny deck. 1.5 miles from nearest groomed trail (and only place we had cell service during the trip - go figure)

In front of boundary yurt

panoramic view inside the yurt (ski boots warming in front of wood stove). Yurts come with wood stove (some good and some questionable kitchen pots, plates, cups etc), propane stove, beds/pads. We didn't have any mice in ours, but we did see them scurrying about outside the ridge yurt one morning. This yurt had a lot of cold air coming in from the floor - it was impossible to keep the yurt very warm even with a big wood stove - woke up one morning to 20 degrees inside the yurt.

Sunrise from the boundary yurt

If you look real hard you can see two snow angels here

Great view from the near the Ridge Yurt (we stayed there the 1st and 4th nights).

Enjoying a beer at the parking lot with skins drying in the sun. We skied about 25 miles during the trip and got about a dozen ski runs in. At the parking lot a woman drove up to go skiing with friends, started talking to us  and realized she didn't bring her skins along - Jolie had her old pair of skins along and they fit the woman's skis (one in million shot) - Jolie got her skins back a week later and a $25 gift card - the skins were barely worth that!