Hike Pictures

Starting out the hike around 3:00pm. Hoping to be home by 7pm. The trees were ivy hung and so green! Just like a jungle. This was in Deep Canyon.

Still in deep canyon and wishing that the uphillness of the hike would soon be done.

Douglas was a fun (and entertaining) hiking buddy. Still in Deep Canyon amongst all the greenery. Loved the quaking aspens and the ivy. Didn't love the stinging nettle so much.

The boys were tired after a few hours of hiking uphill through Deep Canyon. Little did they know we still had 9-10 more hours to go.

It was a nice break for the boys to play in the glacier they found. TJ filled his hat with it, and we took a moment to enjoy a little snowball fight.

We were glad to reach an even better glacier atop the Wellsville Mountains. We were out of water and dug down in the glacier to refill our waterbottles with snow. This glacier was at the summit. We were so glad to finally reach the top!

TJ thought the top of the mountain was pretty cool.

The view was truly amazing. We could see down into Box Elder and Weber counties from the west side. It was super windy on top. We were glad for the wind at first. It was cooling and the insects didn't follow us up there.

I was glad my parents came along to celebrate my birthday with me on the mountain. I hope they can forgive me for dragging them up there for 12 hours! Hopefully, they can remember the happy moments like this...

My mom was quite the trooper. She is hiking along the ridge below.

More awesome views from the top. This picture also shows the storm in Ogden that seemed to be heading our way.

I like how this picture shows the bear river twisting around below. We were up almost 9000 feet above sea level.

My little hiker. He has quite a story to tell about his summer adventures. Not many 9 year olds can say that they've hiked to the top of the Wellsville Mountains. I was so proud of my kids for toughing this out!

TJ was annoyed at how slow we progressed up the mountains. He ran up ahead and would try to pop out and scare us (it usually didn't work because of the orange hat), or pretend to be napping.

TJ led the way along the ridges and peaks.

The wildflowers were gorgeous! They lined the west side of the mountain. I couldn't believe all the colors. The white one below is the state flower (sego-lilly). It was actually pretty hard to get a picture of the flowers up close since the wind was blowing so hard. Most of my flower shots are blurry.

Tom Petty's song was humming in my head, "You belong, among the wildflowers...."

There were a few rocky washes along the way as we hiked the ridges and peaks.

These were the last two peaks we hiked. I think they are Scout Peak and Box Elder Peak.

We actually got to see a rainbow while we were on top of the Wellsvilles. It was pretty awesome, but still scary as the storm was near. It was the last picture I took on our hiking adventure. Soon after this, we continued up to Box Elder Peak and ended up turning right back around.
I'm glad I have pictures of rainbows, flowers and some amazing views to prove that it wasn't ALL a complete disaster. Hopefully we can savor some good memories from this ordeal, too.