Mount Timpanogos

So here we go with the picture version of our exciting adventure. Starting out with an ecstatic smalls, sporting her sunscreen necklace.

So many waterfalls! They were beautiful, though this first one had the best view of the water leaping carelessly off the ledge and breaking into tiny droplets.

Nice meadowy place where the two trails meet up. We tried to find directions
here and I was totally off.

Lovely snow patch we had to cross. There's always a snow patch.

Then the rocky cliffs of insanity in the "Mordor" portion of the hike. This is right at the top for the last little climb up.

Looking down on the group coming up the last leg. It's a bit narrow.

A heart -shaped cloud. I thought it was significant.

The view looking down from the top onto the crazy glacier and valley below.

All of us looking down and contemplating whether we'd die or not. At this point, I still thought not.

Coming down the glacier. I came before these guys, and at this point we were all pretty sure we would die. Scariest thing ever, coming down this steep snowpack, trying to stay in the louge track to avoid rocks, but also trying not to fly out of control on all the jumps that were carved into the trail. I had snow flying everywhere, my hands were frozen, and I really thought I'd never make it home. The guy standing got flipped around and went down headfirst for a while on his back. I really thought he was a goner.

But we survived. Made it to the rocky pile at the bottom that took another half to an hour to get across; I think the glacier didn't save us any time at all. Oh! It was right before the glacier that I lost my backpack. Sad.

Emerald Lake. Beautiful. It was sooo hard not to jump in the water-we always jump in the water, at least once. But we were still so cold from the glacier, and the whole day was overcast and cool, so we decided not too. It was so clear though!

Smalls and Scott back at the waterfall.

And we did it all in chacos! We got a shout out from another chaco hiker, and a props from this guy that came down the glacier with us. Yeah, we're hardcore.

Cloud of backpack death

So in brief...a backpack containing three nalgenes of value to me, my new Utah hiking book, a knife and saw, bandaids and brand new moleskin, my fleece, lots of food, and my phone and keys went crashing down the face of Mt. Timpanogos today. It started picking up speed about twenty feet down, and by fifty the zippers had flown wide open and contents were flying madly out in every direction. That is all I saw before everything rolled down a cliff and out of sight. This means I no longer have any phone numbers and would like them, so that I might someday call people. Please regive me your numbers-my phone number is attached to a different phone that is attached to me, so luckily you can still contact me.
Other than the tragedy, the trip was awesome and i'll try to get some pics up soon!