First of all, I apologize for being so slow and not updating my blog for so long...
A couple weeks ago (Sept. 19) me, my brother Chris, roommate Jessica, and good friend Todd hiked to the summit of Mt. Timpanogos! Yup that's right. The summit! I felt pretty hard core.
It. Was. GORGEOUS!!
On the way up
"The Jessica's" Norm and Roy :)
ha ha so funny story. I brought a nectarine for lunch and just stuffed it in my backpack along with all the rest of my stuff. We stopped to rest on this hill and I sat down and opened my backpack up to get my camera out. My backpack fell over and out comes the nectarine. Luckily I had put it in a ziploc baggie, because it began to roll away down the hill. It was rolling towards Chris and he says "don't worry I'll get it!" He jumps out to try and stop it and... instead of saving it he Punts it over the edge and it goes rolling away down the hill! ha ha bye bye nectarine! I was laughing so hard. You probably had to be there but it was hilarious! He was nice though and climbed down to get it for me.
There it is! We hiked to the very tippity top of that mountain!
Hurray!! We made it!
And here's the proof
Look who we found at the top! Ha ha someone had brought that up with them... I don't know why.
This little guy made it all the way to the top too! What a trooper!
Ahhh SO beautiful!! I was seriously awe struck at the view. It was the most incredible view I've ever seen! Amazing.
Provo and Utah Lake
Snow!
Emerald Lake. It looked really cool from up above on top of Timp. Behind is the glacier that people sometimes slide down. We were going to but it looked a bit skeptical.
Mountain Goats!! They were everywhere! Like 80 of them!
They got so close to us too. I was taking pictures of a group of them up on this hill and then all of the sudden they start coming towards me and passed right by hopping over the rocks.
9 hours of hiking. Close to 20 miles. Terribly exhausted and sore for a few days. It was the hardest physical thing I've ever done... BUT so incredibly worth it!! Amazing.
