Archive for July, 2009
Cecret Lake hike
Posted in Utah, friendship, nature on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mt. Olympus…and we live to hike another day
Posted in Utah, emotions, food, friendship, nature on July 18, 2009 | 9 Comments »
We did it. We hiked Mt. Olympus. Started at 5:45 a.m., took enough breaks so we didn’t die, got to the top about three hours later, spent 45 minutes lunching on the summit, and finished the day after a total of eight hours. Picked the perfect day, too. Not. Sunny and 101 degrees at least! [...]
hike yesterday and hike tomorrow and I’m nervous
Posted in Utah, emotions, friendship, nature on July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday Heather and I went with the Mt. Olympus Presbyterian hiking group up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Catherine’s Pass via Albion Basin. I figured it would be easy-peasy—between 2-3 miles round trip, with less than 800 feet elevation gain. Somehow it still tired us out…maybe because we leave right from work, after a full day. [...]
We came, we saw, we camped.
Posted in God, Utah, food, friendship, music, nature, psalms on July 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Heather and I went on another hike with the Mt. Olympus Presbyterian hiking group Thursday, on Mill B North Fork Trail to Overlook about five miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon. That wasn’t enough to satiate our appetite for the outdoors. The following day, we drove to the Stansbury Mountains (North Willow Canyon) to camp out [...]
hike to Donut Falls in Big Cottonwood Canyon
Posted in Utah, friendship, nature, psalms on July 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Today after work Heather and I had a hilarious, scary, adventurous hike. It was probably—simultaneously—our least favorite hike and our favorite hike. I would write about it all, but I don’t know that it would be as funny to anyone else. All I remember was when I almost peed myself laughing because I was paralyzed [...]
beautiful hike to Dog Lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon
Posted in God, Utah, family, nature, prayer, psalms on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I really needed to be alone with God today, and going on a quiet hike usually helps. When I’m not concentrating on my footing, my panting, or my impending death by rattlesnakes, I can pray. That’s what I did tonight, for a two-hour hike to Dog Lake. I got the idea from my friend’s blog [...]
