Mountain Mash-Up

Although I should have been putting more miles on the bike in preparation for our mountain bike adventure, the prospect of cool, early morning hikes was just too enticing. With great hiking partners we “bagged” the following local peaks:

Lewis Peak from the Windsurfer Beach Trailhead with Pam – 18.8 miles up and back, started in the dark and watched a rare fog form on the flanks of the peak.

Snowbasin and Mt. Ogden in the distance.

Pam in “peak” form for her upcoming Mt. Whitney climb.

Naomi Peak Loop with Andrea – about an 8 mile loop that I didn’t even know existed! Had been up to Naomi Peak before but just as an out and back. Beautiful hike with great views of the Logan Valley area and beyond. Involved a bit of bushwhacking but luckily AllTrails told us when we were off route.

Parking lot at Tony Grove Lake – pretty empty when we started!

First view of the summit (middle of photo.) In theory, the loop trail follows behind the ridge all the way back to the connecting Smithfield Canyon Trail.

The backside of the loop trail resembled more of a game trail and required a bit of route-finding.

As we were farther north, the temps were cool – all in all a beautiful day!

Basically no signs on the entire trail until you get to the end. Then the ones we saw made no sense when you looked at the map. Weird.

Lewis Peak via the North Ogden Divide Trailhead with Pam and Kathy – a little shorter version of the trail – about 11 miles roundtrip.

Standard Operating Procedure – Alison with her eyes closed. Whatever.

Middle Fork Wheeler Creek Trail with Andrea – about a 7 mile loop. Again, started in the dark and just as the sun was rising we saw a huge moose just off the trail. Andrea got a much closer picture than I did and when I showed it to Joel, he confirmed it was BIG!