Thanks for letting me steal your post Susette. It saved me a lot of work. :)
Bright and early 5:15 am
♪All her bags are packed, She's ready to go♫
We got up to the trail head and got started on our journey around 6:20 am.
Susette warned us that if we didn't get there early then we would have to hoof it another mile or so for parking. As much as I didn't like the 4:30 alarm clock I didn't want to add EXTRA miles on the day. Ya, I know, I'm lazy.
The aroma here was...eh...not therapudic.
Doran, Jody, Susette
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We bought portable twist-legged tripod the day before so we could do some easier self-portraits. As we left the store I was trying to attach my camera to it and "snap", it broke. So we turned around on the next off ramp (we were really close) and went back and got another one. It was pretty handy and fun. When I clipped it on the back of the pack Doran was carrying at the time it looked like a little man hanging on for dear life. This cute little guy made it all the way to the top but unfortunately he jumped ship backpack on the way down. Lost and only to be found by someone else.
That wasn't the only thing we lost. The extra shirt we had for daddy was lost on the way up.
About mile 2 it was hanging in a bush waiting for us to pick it up.
I was trying to wrap twist guy around a branch while Doran hung on to me to I wouldn't fall down the cliff. |
Susette had this wonderful idea to take a picture at every mile. That was so we can see how sweaty we got the progress we made.
Mile 1
This was such a nice waterfall but we couldn't get in a position to get a good picture unless we were on our way falling down the hill. It was also such a relief to stop and splash here on the way down to cool us off.
It's getting warmer and sunnier.
Mile 3
Mile 4
Don't let the smiling fool ya.
My stud muffin!
Are we going up there?
We sure are. Well the other way though.
I was so pleased to see flowers and grass instead of sagebrush!!
During most of this hike I was saying "It's a good thing my mom can't see me doing this or she would kill me." There were places that were steep drop offs and some areas had me a little worried.
Susette warned us that we would probably be crossing some snow. After hiking across snow patches a few years ago on our Snow King Mountain hike I was looking forward to the snow. I knew it would be a nice refresher from the heat.
The rock cliff drop offs were the scariest for me but they didn't faze Susette and when we got to this snow I wasn't afeared but Susette was. I thought we were twins?
There was a man on the left in the red shirt and his little 3 year old boy that crossed the snow and he was filling his water bottle in the creek you can't see.
What brave souls. They actually camped up there the night before.
It's a pretty steep drop down this patch. You really can't see the drop off where the snow is on the left but ...gulp. When I got to the other side where the "red man" was it was a little tricky jumping from the snow over to the rocks. I told him "Catch me daddy." He did. Then Doran just tromps across like no big deal.
I learned how to "inspect" bushes here.
Susette patiently waiting. She already knew how to pee in the inspect bushes.
Uh hum..carry on
Mile 5
and a perfect view of the glacier to the left.
Mile 6
almost to the top
Susette wanted to start a snowball fight. I wanted to make snow angels and daddy....
well he just threw a snowball at us and then just turned around and walked away like nothing ever happened. Susette's snowball didn't quite reach him.
The U shape in the distance is where we are headed. If you get your bifocals on you can maybe see little ants AKA people up there.
And it took....
this long to get to the top.
Hey look Susette! Your snot doesn't even show up on your wrist band. Good job!
It was pretty hazy from all the fires but the view was spectacular! The pictures never do it justice does it? Well we will have to head up again in a few weeks.
While we were eating our lunch and relaxing our bottoms on the hard rocks, we had a visitor.
He was heading right for us.
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| But then he took a detour over to the left side of the rocks. |
Susette tried to catch up with him but this is as far as she got. She decided she wasn't as sure footed as the goat and stopped there. I tried to yell "Here kitty, kitty" but he just wouldn't come closer.
He was probably embarrassed because he really, really needed a haircut.
Susette the SHEra needed to get 8 miles of running in for her marathon training so we decided to run DOWN with her. I lasted most of the way but then my toes got hurting SO bad and my legs were getting really heavy and I kept tripping and stubbing my already sore toes so she went on with out us. Daddy wouldn't leave me even though I told him to. To be able to finish her miles I told them to go ahead and run down the canyon and I would be their water boy IN the car. I shed my shoes and let my poor toes have room to throb. (Bigger shoes next time I run down a trail)
Then looking back on those scary parts...well they didn't seem so scary coming down.
But still don't tell my mother.
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| This is a view of the mountain we just came down off of. |
Running down the mountain in 85 degree weather and trying to catch Doran.
Oh, come on! Now who takes pictures WHILE running?
I can't even take a drink while I am walking.
Doran makes it seem so effortless!
I offered rides, water and candy to Susette but her momma taught her better than to accept candy from strangers.
Soooooo incredibly hot and just about ready to climb into the car.
On our way home we stopped and bought bagged ice so we could freeze our butts off soak our sore, tired muscles in the bathtub.
Daddy got such a nice tan that day...that is until he got out of the shower.
Glad it was at Susette's house and not ours...I mean,
Thanks for letting us use your house Susette!!
After we got cleaned up we headed to Costa Vida for dinner!
We so enjoyed our day and would gladly do this again!
Thanks for being our tour guide Susette! Without you I am sure we would have taken one of the many off-shoot trails and got lost.
Half way home we needed some ice cream. We deserved it!
And boy we even look as tired as we felt.
Great day!
Great company!
