Inspired Summit Adventures is building Utah's first year-round, four-season backcountry hut system in the Uinta Mountains. The Western Uinta Hut System will eventually include five yurts connected by 60 miles of trail, some accessible by snowmobile and some only by foot, skis or mountain bike.
Plans are for the Western Uinta Hut System to have five wilderness yurts connected by roughly 60 miles of motorized and nonmotorized trail. Deep in the Uinta Mountains, past the ice skating pond and beyond the snowmobile tracks, something both new and steeped in history waits: it fits into its surroundings on the south side of the reservoir of the same name as though it has squatted there for decades.
In actuality, the crew at Inspired Summit Adventures put the final touches on it in mid-December, completing a key step in a project to create what the outfitter is calling Utah’s first year-round, four-season backcountry hut system. The Western Uinta Hut System is envisioned to eventually include five yurts strung through the mountains northwest of the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway. Roughly 60 miles of trail, some accessible by snowmobile and some only by foot, skis or mountain bike, will tether them together. Though located in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, all the structures will be privately owned by Inspired Summit Adventures, which has permission to operate them as part of its 10-year permit in the Heber-Kamas Ranger District, 11.5 miles to the south. The latter has been in place since 1978 but was remodeled by Inspired Summit Adventures in 2021. The outfitter’s founder, Shaun Raskin Deutschlander, plans to have a third smaller and more rustic yurt in play near Elk Lake as soon as next fall. Raskin Deutschlander had the vision to create an official hut-to-hut system in Utah in 2020. She sees it as a tool for shepherding more people away from crowded trailheads — which have exploded in popularity since the pandemic — and into the backcountry. Cindi Grant fixes dinner at the Smith and Morehouse Yurt, on Thursday, Dec 12, 2024. “How do we help motivate people who, by nature, are kind of lemming-esque?” she wondere
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