Destination: Provo Peak, starting at the Y trailhead. It was supposed to be a 100 degree day, so I got a nice and early start. On the trail at 5:10 am.
Top of the Y
Crazy lush grove up in the saddle above the Y
Amazing panoramic views from the top!
✓Nebo, ✓Santaquin Peak, and ✓Spanish Fork Peak to the South.
Cascade, ✓Timpanogos, and ✓Loan Peak to the North. Of the Wasatch Seven Peaks, I only have Cascade left to do.
Stats:
13.88 miles
7.5 hours
6,236 feet elevation gain
July 4th!
Lemon-Blueberry Streusel Pie in the making. A guy from work made this and shared it with us. It was so good, so we decided to make it for the holiday.
Recipe here: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/lemon-blueberry-streusel-pie-recipe.
We biked the Mapleton Canal trail and made it clear to the end with the girls. Zoey was with me in the trailer.
A Utah Valley dirty drink from Fiiz drinks in Mapleton to cool off.
Fireworks time!
We drew a crowd with the neighborhood kids.
Happy Independence Day!
Santaquin Peak is definitely one of the most prominent peaks on the southern end of Utah Valley. It was a very enjoyable hike to the top and had a terrific view of the valley.
Proud flying flag on this 4th of July weekend.
I decided to double up and do Loafer Mountain as well. It had a really great view of Birdseye.
Looking North from Loafer towards Utah Valley. Santaquin peak is the mountain to the left.
I almost had the mountain to myself…
Stats:
13.54 miles
7 hours
4,467 feet elevation gain
Today was the Warriors over the Wasatch air show at Hill AFB. We’ve been looking forward to this for months. I remember going to see the Blue Angles when I was a kid. It was a very memorable experience for me and I was hoping to share a similar one with our kids. They were saying there would be a ton of people at the show, and they asked people to take public transit, so we figured we get a Frontrunner train ride out of the deal as well. Sam and Hanna came to our place and watched Zoey for the day.
Here we are on the train. One nice thing about starting from Provo is we had the pick of the train. By the end of the line, it was standing room only.
Landon and Kathryn with their sweet F-35 picture.
Ready for those loud jets!
And then…the base reached capacity and they turned us away. BUMMER! Should have started a whole lot earlier I guess. We were not the early birds today.
So, we had a fun afternoon anyway, and then this evening we had another backyard fire and roasted hot dogs and made s’mores. Then we had each of the kids take a turn going for a flight. Check out those smiles!
