North Mountain > First Hamongog Trail (I think...)

Not sure the exact trails I went on this time, but they were straight behind (on the north side of) Alpine. I am pretty sure they were North Mountain and First Hamongog Trails.



Here is an early hike picture looking out over Alpine towards Lake Utah





Here is a little further in the hike picture looking out over Alpine towards Lake Utah





A panoramic shot from the same spot.





Here is a photo from First Hamongog showing where we just hiked from. It is a little meadow about 7000 ft up. I don't know why I didn't take a picture of the whole thing because it is a pretty good size meadow.





Here is a photo from First Hamongog showing where we are going to hike up through.





There where some boulders at the edge of this hill. I didn't feel like walking around out by them in the snow (I like living..) so I just took a picture from this angle.





A pictures from our stopping point.





Couldn't decide which I liked better so there are two.








Panoramic from stopping point.





Video from stopping point





Picture a the sun going behind the hill at First Hamongog.





Another macro picture.






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Dry Creek Trail (even longer 3rd hike)

Went back out to Dry Creek again today with Chris. We hiked about a mile further than last time.

Went from about 5800 ft above sea level where we parked to about 7900 ft above sea level where we ended. Just for a reference the highest mountain in Georgia is Rabun Bald and it is 4,695 feet above sea level, while Alpine, Utah sits at around 4,994 feet above sea level. The highest mountain in Utah is 13,520 feet above sea level.

The last little bit was tough because the snow was pretty deep to walk in. We were just following in two people's snow shoe tracks. I was already sore this morning from snowboarding and that hike didn't help

I didn't take many pictures today because it was the same hike as last week. The pictures today from a little past were we went last week.













A little video recorded from my camera..




some macro..

Snowboarding at Sundance

Went snowboarding up at Sundance with Colby and his mom. This being only the second time snowboarding I was expecting some crashes.... and I was right, haha. This was Colby's first time snowboarding, so we both started out slow on the easy slopes.I was starting to get the hang of it just going down the easy slopes, but for some reason Colby and his mom thought it was a good idea to go all the way to the top and I went with them. That was for our last run, so by that point my legs were already real tired.....which made for some fun crashes.


He were are going up for the first run. Colby was nervous about getting off the lift. For the record I never fell getting off the lift... Colby fell once.




This is on our last run. We just went past where we were getting off the lift before and we have a nice hill in front of us.




So here I am thinking...."ok, well this isn't much higher than the first drop off point." Then Colby's mom says "Once we got over this hill we get off and get on another lift to take us to the top"







At the top.








Only been home a little bit and I am already sore.



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Dry Creek Trail (longer 2nd hike)

Since last week's hike was so much fun I figured why not go again this week. I let my roommate tag along on this hike. It snowed a good bit this week so the trail was a little a little tougher to walk on, but it wasn't too bad.


A little bit of the map at the trail head










Here is a nice little opening we came across about a mile into the hike.








This is what it looks like if you step off the trail






Here is a cool little creek that was frozen, but you could still see a little bit of water running under it. It was right next to the trail and only about 20 yards long then disappeared back into the snow.











Zoomed in a little




A little wood bridge to cross the river...








It might be a little little hard to see, but there was a pretty cool rainbow above this mountain. It is an "upside down" rainbow. If you can't see it try tilting your screen or something...because it is there.





There was a pretty cool waterfall across the valley.















Doh! another little wood bridge to cross..





Other views of the waterfall




















OK.... These might look the same, but each one was from a different spot or the picture is pointed in a little different direction. If a picked one certain picture you would miss a little bit of another........ So I put them all on here. Also, If you look in the middle of these pictures you can kind of see a cloud of steam coming up from the Micron building. That is where I took the pictures at the end of today's blog to show where we where on the mountain.




























We have reached as far as we were going to go today...







Next time...





A view of where we were from down in the valley.





Zoomed in a little...





I think were were probably about 3/4 of the way up.....somewhere is this area.











Here are a few more macro pictures.

















and remember.....




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