Last Hike of the summer

At the end of July, I realized that our family hasn't been on a hike in almost a month so I picked a hike that I have wanted to do all summer. I thought it would be fun to hike up and tour the Mt. Timpanogos cave. Jeff and I have both done the hike and tour before, but all I could remember from the tour is that we would hurry on ahead of my parents to sit on the next bench.

So we went to Utah County and we started up the mountain. I knew that the hill was steep, but I was not really prepared for how steep it was. I was exhausted when I got up to the cave, but it was worth it. Jeff was a tropper and carried up Kaden all the way in a pack or in his arms. Isaac was my partner and stayed behind with me and we helped each other walk up the mountain. I was so proud of him for making it up.

The cave was nice and cool, and was a nice break from the heat of walking up the moutain. The kids did get a little bored in the cave, but they still had a lot of fun. The cave was beautiful and it amazes me the process in which a cave can be made and still live.

Here are the pictures:

This is the best picture of Jeff and Kaden. Kaden loves hiking for the most part.

Isaac was just so excited to finally get to the cave and be able to sit down. Every bench we came to on the hike he wanted to take a break.

We try to take a picture of the trailhead, or cave head here, to remember. Dallin was not happy when we got to the cave. Every picture that we took he was frowning

Kaden did not like me taking this picture because the light was too bright. He was also really tired he ended up falling asleep while we were on the cave tour

Here is what they call the heart of Mt. Timpanogos. It looks a lot like a real heart and I can see why they call it that. Jeff told me that he remembers them turning on a red light behind it, but our tour guide didn't this time.

New hikes

In the last couple of weeks our family has been on two more hikes. The first one that we went on after we got back from St. George was in Ogden so that we could see Jeff's parents for a little bit. We went on the Rainbow loop hike that also hooks up with the Bonneville shoreline trail. We went on the weekend when they also had a marathon going on so we had a little trouble getting there, but it didn't postpone us for too long.

We took Lilly with us so that she could get a little bit of exercise. It was a pretty good hike. It is also a bike trail so we had to be on the lookout for bikes and runners, but it was pretty good. It takes us through a little wooded area and that part was my favorite because it had shade and wasn't too steep.

The best surprise when when we turned a corner and we looked up at the mountain that was across the road and we were able to see a big waterfall. Jeff said that he has never seen t there before so we snapped a lot of pictures on our phones, because I forgot the camera and we then headed back down the hill. Here are the pictures:

Going Hiking

This is the second post of two Please look down to see one about some of the projects that I finished:

This year Jeff and I decided that to go hiking with our kids to hopefully keep them a little occupied. A couple of weeks ago we had our first adventure we took the kids up the Birdsong trail in Ogden. The trail is only a mile each way and has a little hill that was perfect for the kids. Both Dallin and Isaac had fun going on the trail and trying to see when the trail would end. This trail really just connects to roads together and gives you a wonderful view of Ogden. We also took both Lilly and Oscar. The dogs also had a wonderful time. Jeff had a hold of Lilly and I had a hold of Oscar. Lilly was really excited she loves to do anything in the outdoors and Oscar had fun as well, but I don't think as much as Lilly. On our trip back through the hike Jeff and I both let the kids have a turn of holding the dog's leashes. Dallin got to hold onto Lilly and Isaac got to hold onto Oscar. Lilly was okay with Dallin and the only problem there was that Lilly kept stopping to smell the bushes and then she would get tangled in the leash. Isaac on the other hand didn't know that he needed to make Oscar keep up to his pace. So for Isaac just ran along side Oscar for awhile until I took back the leash. Isaac still loved holding the leash though. Here is the one picture that I took when we were at the top of a little hill where you can see the view of Ogden.


This last weekend we went up to Logan to visit my parents and Jeff and I decided that we wanted to go on a little more difficult of a hike with out our kids. We decided to go on the Temple Fork Sawmill hike that we tried a couple of years ago with our kids and we ended up having to carry both of them out because it was a little too much for them. We invited some of my family to go with us. The only thing that we didn't want to happen was that we would have to carry out a kid that walked in like last time. This hike is only 3.2 miles out and back, but it is in the full sun for over half of the hike. We lucked out and it was overcast when we went so we had a little shade when we started the hike, but when we were going back to the car the clouds had gone so we had the sun. The last half is all hills. It was a nice hike and we all had fun. My sister Debra and her husband Andrew came with us with their son Austin to make a trial run for their backpacking trip that they took a couple days after this hike. Austin had a wonderful time looking at all of the scenery and trying to look at the river that we were walking by the whole time. The sawmill is the one that was used to get the wood for the Logan temple as well as some of the other buildings in Logan. It was nice to finish a hike that we hadn't a couple of years ago.

This is the sign that is at the top of the hike and shows what it looked like when the mill was working. The people that worked the mill stayed up there for while and they established their own little town.

This is the trail head.

This is the only thing left of the mill. Jeff thought that it looked like a pill of rocks that were placed there by a boyscout. He was a little disappointed with the ending of the hike, but he still had fun.

Here is the picture of everyone that went on the hike(minus me behind the camera). We all had fun and we were all exhausted when we got back to my parents house.