Hiking, Part 2

Donut Falls

Donut Falls is a really cool place we found online. A natural formation and waterfall always makes any hike & climb worth it.

Bottom of falls

Paige



Mike



We went to Adam’s Canyon this year & last year. The first year we climbed up the rock face and took pictures, but this year we forgot to bring the camera. It’s a tall waterfall at the end of a pretty fun hike.

looking down from above

Mike at the top

Paige sitting on the top

There is a secret, hidden waterfall by a campground that most have never seen. Mike and a friend had found it before and he took me to it before he went to Iraq.

Mike & Paige

Paige

Mike in front of "secret" campground waterfall

Mike

One hike that we attempted and actually succeeded the first and only time, took a total of 9 hours up and back. It is called Ben Lomond. The Paramount logo you see on the beginning of their movies pictures this peak. This one did not have a waterfall to see but we made it to the top of a freakin mountain, so that was good enough for us. The only bad part was that we started out too late and did not make it back until after dark and we had to ration water. I think it was the only time I felt dehydrated to the point I was dreaming about water the whole way up. I am glad that we are both determined and encouraged each other because we would not have made it if not.

Mountain goats

Paige

Mike

Mike & Paige

Mike & Paige

camera shots to see after it got dark

Our feet after the long hike

While Mike was gone to Iraq I joined a hiking group with a friend of mine because I wanted to hike and am really bad with directions. So we went up the peak of Antelope Island, which was my first time but Mike had gone up it before. And then the group and I went up to Mount Olympus in Salt Lake City. There was still snow on top so we did not get all the way to the top but it was a challenging hike that Mike and I should plan on doing next summer.

Antelope Island hike

Paige

Mt. Olympus hike

When Mike got back from Iraq, we went to Stewart Falls in Provo. We had never been there before but definitely had a waterfall worth hiking to…at least once.