Yellowstone, Island Park July '08

YELLOWSTONE

Cache Valley. We camped about 10 miles in. The area was magnificent.

Our camp. For bear precautions we slept 100 yards away from the fire and food. We also had to tie our food at least 10 feet up the tree so the bears wouldn't eat it.

Cache Creek. We had lots of fun fishing this creek (in Utah it would be a raging river!). One of the days we tried counting how many we caught and got up to 56.

Yellowstone was somuch fun! We camped 2 nights in this area. As you can see from the pictures we had lots of fun! By one fishing spot we found this track, we think its from a wolf and it was fairly new. My shoes decided to break on me. Both of my sole's eventually fell off, but the hair ties were a valent effort to try to keep them together.

ISLAND PARK!

Fishing the Henry's Fork River below Island Park Resivor.

Fishing the Henry's Fork River, above Island Park Resivor.

Ben, Hanns, Riley, and Greg. The Greg's grandparents cabin we stayed at. Island Park is now one of my favorite places ever! There is so much to do and so beautiful. Several things we did were... canoeing, fishing, boating(skiing, tubing, ect), hiking, biking, ect. We also attended sacrament there, it was the fullest one I have ever been to. They have a chapel and another building that held atleast 1000 people to watch the sacrament from a projector screen. It was wonderful to see that many people on vacation attending church.

Mt. Nebo July '08

Greg and I got a crazy hair and decided to hike Mt. Nebo. It was a 10 hour long, grueling, steep hike. 16 miles round trip. But the feeling of accomplishment when we got to the top was so worth it.

We camped-out just above the trail head the night before so we could get an early start.

This was about a mile from the top, on the front/ west facing side. One slip on this shale would be a long slide down!

It looked and felt like we were on the tundra or the moon! Its amazing that there's plants up here concidering there's snow and ice 9 months out of the year. The top is just beyond greg and you can see the faint trail in the back ground.

WE MADE IT!!! The views were amazing and well worth the challange. If you ever want a butt-kicking workout I'll recommend this one :-)

Deep Creek Mt June '08

Two days after the boulders we took off to pilot valley to take Greg's Thesis work instruments down. Because we were already out in the middle of no-where we decided to make a longer trip out of it and head to the Deep Creek Mountains. It's a mtn. range out in the middle of the desert that you can only get to on dirt roads (k, not just dirt roads, but 50 miles of dirt roads to get there). We had two reasons to go... 1. the little streams coming down the mountain have Lake Bonniville Cutthroats in them, and 2. the mtn range has Ibahah peak that is over 12,000 ft tall (its on Greg's list to climb). We camped up granite canyon next to a fun little creek. We wanted to catch some of the almost extinct fish... were able to find some small little pockets that held only one to two (4-8 inch) fish. We ate pigs in a biscut, my little creation that makes hot dogs edable :-) And definitly broke out the smores! I love camping if there's sugar!!! In the morning we took the 4-wheeler up the canyon as far as the trail went and found that to hike that mountain would be a 2-3 day backpacking trip so we thought better of it, but would like to go back and try it.

As the sun was setting over the Deep Creeks


Our camp. We slept in the truck bed which was somewhat lucky cause the wind blew like crazy that night!

Greg's monster bonniville cutthrout

The stream was about 2 ft wide but i was able to pull this 8 incher out!

The tallest farthest back peak with the snow is the one that Greg and I will be standing on one day!