Red Pine (Wasatch)

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Alene and I were able to celebrate our 7 year anniversary by doing a hike up Little Cottonwood canyon called Red Pine Lake. Neither of us had done it before so it was fun to have 6 hours to ourselves to hike without kids or anything else to slow us down.

The trail was really nice and for about 3/4 of the way up, was clear of any snow. It wasn't until the last 1/4 section of the trail that you started to hit snow, and eventually nothing but snow. It was fairy steep as you got closer to the top and challenged me a bit, mostly because of the snow (hiking in trail runners and shorts).

Beautiful Aspens along the way up



Found this avalanche control cannon off the trail a bit



Trees thicken up a bit



A hazy view looking down toward salt lake valley



The snow starts; this was covering a creek coming down the mountain



Getting close to Red Pine; All snow from here on out





We ran into these cool people hanging out up there for the day with a few snow sleds and blow up mattresses. They're friends with the owners of "Wing Coop", so they were cooking up chicken wings for people passing by and giving them out for free. I'm not a huge wing guy, but they were really good



The hill they were sledding



Red Pine lake with un-named peak (not Pfeifferhorn) in the background





Working our way back down





Loved this design on the bark; not sure if someone did it with a knife, or if it naturally happened this way.



Red Pine was a beautiful hike. I long for making time for more hikes like this with Alene. I wished I had "the bug" when we were early in our marriage and have time, but now I look forward to the times we can get away and do these things and to future days when it will be easier for us to get away. She's a great companion on a hike and often kicks my butt and inspires me to push on.

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Nice post and pics.
The Pffiferhorn is the next peak to the west ;)

40°32'0.65"N 111°42'21.90"W
 
Nice post and pics.
The Pffiferhorn is the next peak to the west ;)
40°32'0.65"N 111°42'21.90"W

Whoops, you're right. Those wing guys were telling me it was Pffifferhorn. Oh well :).
 
Yep, false peak. Made that same mistake myself once. Cool find on the avalanche control gear.
 
Very cool. Think this is worthy of an ultra-fast overnighter? By that I mean hit trail late afternoon, back at work an hour or two late the next day...
 
Very cool. Think this is worthy of an ultra-fast overnighter? By that I mean hit trail late afternoon, back at work an hour or two late the next day...
For sure. It's about 2.5 hrs up. Was obviously full of snow less than a month ago, but I'm sure it's gotten better. We were gone a total of 6 hours from our house and that included the drive there and a stop at Cafe Rio (to go) on the way home.
 
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