163) Last Days in Utah

I am home now, but this is a re-cap of the last days in Utah. While we were staying at our friend Ryan’s house we made some plans for a day hike in the area. We ended up going to Uinta NF. It was about 15 minutes away from Ryan’s house.




It was a really big change in scenery from the deserts we spent the last couple days in. About half the trail was a closed road that was now in use for snow mobiles (annoying), and the other half was a regular hiking trail under 3-5 feet of snow. The second half of the trail was obviously much nicer and quieter.




We wanted to summit one of the near by peaks, but found it just wasn’t going to happen. For one the sun was heading below a peak, and two it became increasingly difficult to tread through the snow. Our feet started plunging down until our leg could go no further, making progress slow and difficult.




So we headed back down content to leap, bound and run down the steep and deeply snow covered side of the mountain, laughing, screaming and falling. One of my favorite things about being on a snowing mountain is trying to run and jump back down- it is a feeling unlike anything else.