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It has been raining a lot lately. The ground is too saturated to do much outdoorsy work at home, so headed out to Mohican State Park to see what condition the waterfalls were in.

The trail was flooded below the dam, and I stirred up a goose as I was looking for an alternate route.

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Grape Hyacinth in bloom.

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Little Lyons Falls was roaring.

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Big Lyons Falls was pouring. Two different camera speeds of a similar view.

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This is the most water I have seen pouring over the edge of the sandstone. Member of BCP pic from under/behind the falls.

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We had a nice snow storm last Tuesday, so I was looking for a hike in the foothills this past weekend that didn't involve too much mud - Jack's Mountain fit the bill. Since January, I have been rotating through my cameras and on this hike I took the Canon Digital Rebel. The Digital Rebel was released in 2003 and has a 6.3 MP sensor. I also carried the Canon PowerShot SX150 IS in my kilt pocket.

Jack's is about a 1,240 foot elevation gain from the trailhead to the summit, so not much, but it is gained over approximately 1.18 miles, so there is some steepness to it. My left knee that has been bothering me did reasonable well on the climb up, but was painful at times on the way back down.


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View from the trailhead

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Mount Olympus to the south showing her face

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Common storksbill. Still only three wildflowers out after a week from my last hike.

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Desert alyssum

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Gaining some elevation

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Spring parsley

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Jack's Mountain coming into view in the upper left along with the upper reaches of Carrigan Canyon and Parley's Ridge above right

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Some 2024 ragweed

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More storksbill and alyssum

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Mount Wire to the north

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Downtown Salt Lake City, with the international airport beyond and the southern end of Antelope Island

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Looking back on the hill with the cell phone tower

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Typical of the trial

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Some orange lichens that I thought was pretty

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Made it to the top

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Grandview Peak to the north

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Zoomed in on Mount Wire. Looks like there are a couple of people up top

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Zoomed in on Grandview

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Mt setup for this hike

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A look up Spring Canyon

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There is a trail along this ridge that extends from the summit towards Parleys Ridge.
I'll have to check it out later this spring. I'm guessing it makes its way to the top of
the ridge somehow.

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2024 thistle

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View of Jack's Mountain from the cell phone tower in a previous picture

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Sorry, I can't resist the storksbill. :)

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A wasp (Blue Mud Wasp me thinks) on the trail as I was heading down

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Back at the Sube

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View of Pencil Point from my car


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I did a post-work, co-worker hike last night. We try to get out at least once a month with varying participants.
This time we did Bell Canyon falls. We were slow enough, and late enough that we had the falls, and the trail down, entirely to ourselves.

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Only used the phone for these, and making them cliche long exposures is easy, if not precise. It also requires no thought or tripod.
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Found some snow!
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The turnaround goal was reached.
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Yesterday, there was a planned meeting between some peeps on this forum, and then a a random one.

This is the random one. Me and @danger02ward
Pretty awesome to follow this one into Maybird and then later talk for a little while and find out who he was. Look up his old trip reports.
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You can let your imagination go on this one...
@scatman What the..!?!
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This was followed moments later by this... The Swede and @regehr in action.
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Potentially related, or unrelated, we also have these from earlier in the day and the day before:
@scatman finding sunshine for the first time in the morning.
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@scatman sleeping. Perhaps rethinking his life choices, or imaging the shenanigans he can get into later that day.
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@regehr making use of the butt-sled. The camera does not capture the intense speed.
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The Swede making a leap of faith.
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Ok .... I don't want to hear complaints fr om Scat on my routes..... Climbing thru a creek with a snow tunnel to suck you away...... I havent led Scat anywhere that bad
..!!
 
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Ugly said:
Yesterday, there was a planned meeting between some peeps on this forum, and then a a random one.

This is the random one. Me and @danger02ward
Pretty awesome to follow this one into Maybird and then later talk for a little while and find out who he was. Look up his old trip reports.
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So awesome to meet you @Ugly and @scatman in that most beautiful place!
 
The scope is complete! They prescribed me a whole bunch of pills to take for the next week. The doctor says that I can start riding the stationary bike on Thursday for 5 - 10 minutes, and they have given me some exercises to do at home for a couple of weeks. The knee feels reasonably well right now. I might attempt Ensign Peak on Saturday to see how it goes.

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And of course drying my cameras out on my deck from my plop into White Pine Fork.

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Celebrated 28 years of marital bliss yesterday. We headed to a restaurant called Harbor for dinner.

Old Fart! :moses: And yes, that's my purse. :)
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God help her. Not sure how this lass managed to put up with me for 28 years
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A nice Drioma Imperial Russian Stout to go with my meal. Brewed by Redrock here in SLC
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Sheila got the house margarita
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Crab stuffed squash blossoms
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Idaho grass fed beef @Bob . 15oz. Prime Ribeye - medium rare. I forgot to take a shot before I started eating it.
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Sheila had the fish and chips.
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And a shot for @Ugly. A good view of our Dragon Tail route up Grandeur a couple of weeks ago, taken on our way to the Harbor.
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We then headed on to REI to pick up something for @TractorDoc, and that ended up turning into an expensive trip. The first time I have ever used a shopping cart at REI.

So today, five days after the scoping of my left knee and five and a half months after Sheila's heel surgery, we are going to attempt Ensign Peak. This will be her first hike since her surgery where they had to detach and reattach her Achilles after removing a deformity. Two cripples and one halfwit (me) on the trail. What could possibly go wrong? :D

So if you hear a story on the news tonight about two people being rescued off of Ensign, you'll know who it is.

More to come! :thinking:
 
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