So those that kn
ow me know I love the outdoors and basically every sport and activity it offers. Winter, summer, it matters little, I can always find something fun and adventurous to do. For some reason this summer, I haven't had as many opportunities to be outdoors. Well, I guess that really depends on your perspective. I consider going out twice a month not very often. Others might consider that overload. :) That being said, I finally got out backpacking last weekend with Bill and a friend David from Salt Lake. It was awesome! We headed out Friday night and backpacked up to Red Pine Lake in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Minus the mosquitoes it's an amazing place to camp! I got eaten alive the last time we went camping and Bill didn't, so I borrowed his one-man tent and he slept out. Bad idea! Poor guy, he got like 25 mosquito bites. I thought my 10 or 12 were bad...Anyway, Saturday morning we
woke up ear
ly and hiked one of the mountains surrounding the lake, called White Baldy. It was incredible! Practically the whole mountain was a pile of boulders as you can see, so we boulder-hopped the whole way to the top. We chased a mountain goat up as we were climbing. It was super fun going up, but terrible coming down, so on the way do
wn we took advantage of a bunch of snow left on the slopes and glissaded down them (basically we slid down on our bums with ice axes in our hands to self-arrest in case we lost control). What an awesome trip! To top it all off, Bill and I got back to Provo in time to make a late lunch with his family at PF Changs. You've got to love living so close to the mountains that you can do both of those things in the same day!
5 comments:
Welcome to blogger! Hope you update often!
Yay Jolena!! WOO HOO! Blogging is the way to go. So much easier to keep up with family. Have a wonderful day!
Way to keep the promise, I was amazed it happened so fast, since I just talked to you yesterday. Anyways I'm jealous about the glissading it sounds like tons of fun. Maybe I should get Ryan to go iceblocking with me...it'd be the closest we get to sliding down a hill on something frozen in Texas
Welcome to blogland! I'm excited to keep up with your life!
It's great to see you here. Now I get to be updated frequently on all your adventures. This hike looks like so much fun!