Yesterday we took a very short hike into Big Cottonwood Canyon on Guardsman’s Pass. More photos here.
Yesterday we took another spectacular hike, this time to a lake called Lake Blanche. We hiked up a 2.8 mile trail that ended at the lake and two other lakes, Lakes Florence and Lillian, a short walk just to the west of Lake Blanche. Spectacular views of Sundial and Dromedary Peaks could be seen for much of the hike, but especially at these lakes. The wildflowers were prolific and stunning and there were waterfalls everywhere.
We think we will take a backpacking trip there later this summer.
The photos at my personal website speak for themselves, but here are a couple:
I love summer because I get to do so many cool things. Like hiking, backpacking and traveling. I’ll be sharing links to my adventures here. So many activists get burned out because they spend all their time doing activist stuff. The passion remains but the energy to continue the activism wanes sometimes. So it’s good to get out and just enjoy being alive.
Yesterday we hiked White Pine Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains. My word for the day was “stunning”.
Tom and I took our first backpacking trip of the season early this week. We went to Red Pine Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains.
Photos can be viewed here.
Here is a photo I took of Pfeifferhorn Peak from the Maybird Gulch Trail on our second day:
It was great to leave the valley and take our first backpacking trip of the season. I was in way better shape than I thought, carrying a pack weighing about 30-35 pounds and hiking the first day about 2-3 miles, virtually all uphill, without having to stop much. It was a beautiful couple of days.
It’s always nice to get away from everyday life and technology and just enjoy “being”.
Here is a photo of Pfeifferhorn Peak that I took at the end of the Maybird Gulch Trail we hiked on our second day:
You can view more photos of my trip here.
We took a Father’s Day Hike last weekend.
We found lots of mushrooms today – the kind we like to eat (morels) and other kinds. Here are some photos:
Today Tom and I went hiking in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains. It’s mushroom season, so we will be spending all our spare time hunting mushrooms. We hit the jackpot today – enough for dinner! We found oyster and morel mushrooms.
I’m glad I have been riding my bike a lot because I feel if fairly good shape for hiking, although I still need some work.
Here are a few photos:
A snake slithers away when it is alarmed by us walking by
Oyster mushrooms growing on a dead cottonwood tree stump
Today we took our first strenuous hike of the year, up Mt. Olympus, east of the Salt Lake Valley. It was great to get out and take a vigorous uphill climb.
The weather was perfect and the scenery, as usual breathtaking. Our backpacking trip to southern Utah this past weekend was astounding. We backpacked in to Upper Calf Creek Falls in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. To get there you have to hike down about a mile of slick rock. Once to the bottom, the trail becomes the stream and you feel like you are in paradise.
I have lived in Utah for about 8 years now and I am still taken aback by the state’s natural wonders, even to places I have been before.
I have posted photos at Tom and Dee’s Excellent Adventures
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 