Hiking

Tom and Tristan at Silver Lake, 8900 Feet
Looking down at Solitue Ski Resort and a chair lift

Amy and Sleepy Tiffany at Solitude Lake, elevaton 9100 feet.

There's always a treasure at the end of trail. This is a 6 foot tall bull moose, weighing in somewhere around 1200 pounds. Our 4 mile hike was worth it, after finding this beast!

Kids

Tiffany is standing all alone and ready to take off after Tristan. This is what I hear all day from Tristan is "me sissy, no sissy, move sissy, where's sis." All Tiffany says all day is da da, ma, and whispers and points, what's that. Tristan is trying out his backpack so he can be like da da. Lance lost his last baby tooth yesterday. The dentist put it in a little box for him. We showed Tristan that if you put your tooth under the pillow the tooth fairy brings you money for it. Lance said he better get at least $5.00 for his last tooth.

Hiking

We spent another Sunday hiking in the mountains. This time we hiked a mile up to Cecret Lake. Although it doesn't seem like a difficult hike, when your 10,000 feet up your huffing pretty hard with the thin air. Tiffany likes the backpack as long as you don't stop moving. She likes to yak and scare the animals away. Tristan is in the other back pack putting his finger to his lips say, "shhh" to Tiffany. Afterwards we stopped at Snowbird Resort to have a beer and bratwurse at the Octoberfest.

Hiking

Today we did a little hike to Cascade Springs.

Fire on the Mountain

A forest fire on the mountain behind our home.

Mountain Hike

Looking towards Lone Peak and Snowbird.

You can see pockets of snow.

Waterfalls

Baird Family

Hauser Family

Taking a lunch break.

We decided to take advantage of one of our nice Sunday's left before winter comes. We started the hike at 9am up the Timpanogos Mountain Trail. Hoping to see Emerald Lake, the crashed B-25, and the peak. Well after two hours of climbing and only making it about a mile and half the girls and Tristan decided to turn around. The boys made it a little further I think close to 9,600 ft and 4 miles one way. The peak is 11,749 and 7.5 miles one way. I was just hoping that we didn't run into the animals that left poop along the trail. Someone did tell us a bull moose with big horns was laying down off the trail up ahead. Yeah, not something I want to run into as you curve along the dirt trail up the mountain with a baby on your back. We never did see the moose but we freaked a couple of times when we would hear snorting. But it ended up being Tristan and Tiffany asleep and snoring in the backpacks. Maybe next week we can tackle another mountain.

ATV in Mountains

We decided to skip church and take the ATV up to Silver Lake in the American Fork Canyon.

Tristan gets to go for a ride and da da's ATV.

Tristan who is always the safety and cautious kid was too scared to actually press the button to make it go.

Tiffany likes to do everything Tristan does.