Now that the snow is off of the >10,000 ft. peaks we are enjoying bagging one a weekend that have been on our list for a while. This past weekend was Mount Olympus (9,026 ft.) - strenuous 7.6 mile roundtrip with over 4,000 feet of elevation gain. This meant a constant and grueling uphill grade, often 30%.


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Have I mentioned that our yard is lousy with trilobites?


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It was the first real snow storm of the year here. So we thought it was a great day to go car shopping!


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The day after Thanksgiving we climbed Little Black Mountain (8040') - a 6 hour, 11 mile, 3,544' elevation gain hike. Little Black Mountain is the mountain in the center of the photo, it's actual peak is the smaller looking one furthest away.


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Nick left for a conference on Sunday and this is what I woke up to the next day. I love how the snow looks like a lattice work on the flagstone cracks.


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Yesterday we decided to go for a hike before the fall colors were completely gone and it was too cold at high altitudes - so we went back to City Creek Canyon and headed up a very old trail and then hiked toward Little Black Mountain until it was too late to get back by dark ( Read more... )

What a perfect weekend! Instead of going out to see a movie, we decided to stay in on Friday night - which was just the right decision. We are watching Community from the library, which lends you the entire season at a time, not just single discs! Cozy and relaxing.

Saturday morning I went and got an amazing pedicure at a local spa, thanks to a ( Read more... )

I've seen Oink scratching on the trees, but this was the first I saw him climb one! Don't worry, that Hummingbird wasn't having any of his sass.


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On the way back from the Avenues Fest we checked out a corner of the cemetery we haven't been to yet - it's an older part with more LDS graves -  you can usually tell...


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Yesterday Nick and I slept in and wandered down the hill to the Avenues Fest - a local street festival that started as a remodeling tool exchange and now has two music stages and four blocks of local booths and vendors (SO Avenues - people *love* restoring houses around here - we've seen three turnover since we've moved here and they are working on ( Read more... )