Welcome to the newly redesigned Studio Casey website.

I have thought long and hard about what to include on this site, how it should look and work. Traditionally, Studio Casey has been merely for my graphic and web design business, but I feel that in this world of blurring the lines between personal and work life that it can and needs to be more. On this new site, you will find not only my professional design, but also fine art I have created and other interests.

• Duration: 3 days, September 15 – 17, 2010
• Location: White Clouds
• Trailhead: Slate Creek/Hoodoo Hot Springs
• Distance: 11 miles total
  • 4 miles, each way
  • 3 mile day hike
• Elevation gain/loss: +1900 feet, -100 feet
• Day Hike, Elevation gain/loss: +-1860 feet
• Backpackers: Bud Reberry, David Casey, Neddie, Sunny

I knew this was going to be a strange trip even before we left. We were supposed to leave Monday, the 13th, but I threw my back out a week previous playing basketball with my brother. I could barely walk for a week-and-a-half. Bud had been sick the previous week as well. We decided to make the best of things and give it a go.

• Duration: 4 days, August 9 – 12, 2010
• Location: Bighorn Crags
• Trailhead: Crags Campground
• Distance: 24 miles total
  • 8 miles, each way to campsite
  • 8 mile day hike
• Day 1 Elevation gain/loss: +2180 feet, -1740 feet
• Day 2 Elevation gain/loss: +-1860 feet
• Day 3 Elevation gain/loss: +1590 feet, -2030 feet
• Backpackers: Bud Reberry, David Casey, Dillon Reberry, Neddie, Sunny

I’ve been wanting to go to The Bighorn Crags for probably 15 years. Bud had been wanting this trip even longer. This was the year. We were finally going to do it…and it actually happened, although not quite the way we had imagined.

• Duration: 3 days, July 31 – August 2, 2010
• Location: Payette Crest
• Trailhead: Kennally Creek
• Distance: 6 miles, each way
• Elevation gain: 2387 feet
• Elevation loss: 973 feet
• High point: 7800 feet
• Low point: 5600 feet
• Backpackers: David Casey, Diego, Tom Callmeyer

Blackmare wasn’t highly rated on my todo list. For some reason it was intriguing me this season. I thought six miles would be a good season opener in one of my favorite mountain ranges. Tom and I emailed beta found on the web about this lake along with Google Map and Earth info. We had a late start this year and were excited to get some mileage under our feet.

• Duration: 2 days (overnighter), August 21 – 22, 2009
• Location: White Clouds
• Trailhead: Slate Creek/Hoodoo Hot Springs
• Distance: 1.75 miles each way
• Elevation gain/loss: +1622 feet
• Backpackers: David Casey, Neddie, Sunny

Turned out, this was my only backpacking trip of the year, and it was solo. For one reason or another all my backpacking partners and I weren’t able to work out a trip. This was also the first year that I became a dad. So, I’ve been preoccupied with getting out with Cindy and Cohen for easy camping trips. I wanted to get to Ocalkens Lake, but wasn’t sure how likely that would be given that the trail was supposedly abandoned. Hoodoo Lake was the alternate plan.

• Duration: 2 days (overnighter), September 2 – 3, 2008
• Location: White Clouds
• Trailhead: Fourth of July
• Distance: 4 miles each way
• Elevation gain/loss: +1382 feet, -682 feet
• Backpackers: Bud Reberry, David Casey, Neddie, Sunny

It has been getting cold early this year and this was looking like one of our last opportunities to get out before some serious snow started flying. For over ten years, I’ve been wanting to make a long loop tour of the heart of the White Clouds: Fourth of July, Chamberlain Basin, Little Boulder Chains, Born Lakes. It is a long trip to see everything, about six or seven days to do it right and Bud has been a little troubled by the reports of Devil’s Staircase, at least doing it with a heavy pack. Born Lakes would be the perfect opportunity to get a view of Devil’s Staircase and Four Lakes Pass from the west.

• Duration: 2 days (overnighter), August 11 – 12, 2008
• Location: Payette Crest
• Distance: 3 miles each way
• Elevation gain/loss: +1700 feet, -600 feet
• Backpackers: Bud Reberry, David Casey, Neddie, Sunny

This was our third attempt for Thirtythree Lake, but our second going this route. Here are links to our first and second try. We were eager to find this lake and excited for the journey.

• Duration: 5 days, July 1 – 5, 2008
• Location: Seven Devils
• Trailhead: Seven Devils Campground
• Distance: 13 miles total
  • Day 1: 4 miles: +816 feet, -1776 feet
  • Day 2: 2.5 miles: +893 feet, -212 feet
  • Day 4: 6.5 miles: +1992 feet, -1713 feet
• Backpackers: Cindy Casey, David Casey, Jen Casey, Michael Casey, Mo, Neddie, Sunny

We were planning on doing the Seven Devils Loop. This would be our first backpacking trip with Jen, my brother’s wife. She is a newcomer to backpacking and hasn’t had many good experiences yet. Also, Cindy and I had a surprise that we were considering disclosing on the trip.

• Duration: 4 days, August 5 – 8, 2008
• Location: Sawtooths
• Trailhead: Alturas Lake
• Distance: 18.25 miles total
  • Day 1: 4.25 miles: +1536 feet, -95 feet
  • Day 2: 7.25 miles: +-3165 feet
  • Day 3: 2.5 miles: +-481 feet
  • Day 4: 4.25 miles: +95 feet, -1536 feet
• Backpackers: Cindy Casey, David Casey, Neddie, Sunny

Cindy and I had decided to backpack into Alpine Creek Lakes over the weekend. She had a business meeting in Twin Falls Monday morning, so she would hike out early. Tuesday, Bud and Dillon Reberry would be hiking in. Then we would all leave Thursday. The topo map shows the trail ending where the two drainages meet, however there are trails to the lower lakes in both. We decided to set basecamp at the first northern lake, Lake 8523 and day hike to see the other lakes and maybe climb Snowyside Peak.