Ain't No Mountain High Enough (yes there is.)

Last Saturday my roommates Sarah and Rachel, my home teacher and his friend and I all set out to hike Mount Timpanogos.

If you didn't know, it's the second tallest in the Wasatch Mountain Range, and the top has an elevation of 11,749 ft (so Google tells me).

In the end, we made it somewhere between halfway and two-thirds up the mountain before the snow and ice got in our way.

And somehow, even with a GPS,

we managed to get ourselves off the trail on the way back.

(I wouldn't say lost, since we were never more than 15 or 20 yards from the path)

But apparently, 15 or 20 yards makes a big difference.

We went through all this tree/brush stuff that has left me with a few battle scars,

and had to wade through this freezing cold muddy stream.

(Rachel fell in - sadly I missed actually seeing it.)

Getting lostLosing the trail was actually one of the more fun parts of it all.

(Okay maybe not so much the freezing water, but besides that.)

 I'm kind of limited in my pictures from that day at the moment, but this is Sarah, Rachel, Jason and I at the place we decided to turn around.

You can't tell, but we were all trying very hard not to slip and fall while taking this picture.

Sarah, Rachel and I with our awesome matching sunglasses.

I lost mine on the way back down -- it's quite sad.

 Sarah, Rachel, Rick (my home teacher) and I.

I was trying to take a picture of the view, and since they were in the picture, I told all 3 of them to turn around and smile.

Rick listened, I think Jason just tried to strike a pose, and Rachel ignored me all together.

So, since I don't like to do anything halfway, we're trying again when the snow melts.

This is pretty convenient, since I did decide not to take any classes Summer Term.

And I made a list of things I want to do before the end of August (a.k.a. Fall Semester) so I keep busy while I'm not in classes:

1. Hike all the way to the top of Mt. Timpanogos

(it'll happen in July or August.)

2. Go to the temple 7 times.

3. Read 3 books.

4. Cross 4 things off my bucket list.

(Can you tell I like lists? Even my lists refer to other lists.)

5. Go to the Brigham City temple open house.

(this one is the one I'm least sure I'll be able to do since it's 2 hours away and I don't have my own car.)

6. Write on my blog and in my journal more.

(I'd say I'm not doing half bad considering I've had 3 blog posts in the last week!)

As I say quite often: I got this.