Two years ago...

Every now and then I thought I would do some flashback blogging and share some things we did before we started this site.

In August of 2007, Aimee and I got this great idea that we would hike to the top of Mt. Timp. We decided to take Mollee with us. (Thinking back...first bad idea). Mollee and the backpack with all Mollee's gear weighed about 30 pounds. I carried a second pack with food water and our gear. Also about 30 pounds...and off we went.

After getting a late start (bad idea number 2), we started our hike and couldn't really determine from the map where the trailhead actually started. By the time we finished arguing and got going it was already 10am, but we decided to keep going anyways. (bad idea number 3). After about 30 minutes I started to stuggle from carrying 30 pounds of water, so I stopped and started dumping some out to lighted my load. Aimee reminded me about a book we read called "Over the edge: Death in the Grand Canyon" and how people died from heat deprevation because they didn't have enought water. Needless to say, we kept going. It was fun, and after an hour we got up to this waterfall. Very nice.

Then we looked up and wondered "where the heck the trail was and how long would it take us to get up and back down?". But, we kept going. After we got somewhere between 9000 and 10000 feet (almost to the top of this picture) we ran out of water (of course) and we were sore and tired and it was about 2:30 in the afternoon. Both of us were stubborn and neither wanted to quit. But I really didn't want to be on the 5 o'clock news either, so we turned around and went back down.

Now every time I drive to work I look up at Timpanogos and think "Man, one day Aimee and I will try again...most likely without Mollee (unless its 10 years from now) and earlier in the morning and with lots of water." Its was still a lot of fun, even though we were sore for a week.