Miscellaneous Summer Fun

So, the end of the summer has been so much fun! Lots of new experiences for everyone.

We've been getting more into mountain biking, so a few weeks ago, we all decided to go up A.F. Canyon and go for a ride:

this is us (above) pre-ride - don't we all look nice and clean? It's a little chilly since it was so early in the morning, and high up the canyon.

This is us after the ride! It decided to rain on us most of the ride, and lets just say, I don't know that anyone's clothes got all the way clean after that, but everyone had a great time! I found out that mountain biking is not as easy as it seemed, and I was far beyond my limits on this particular ride, I need to find a bunny hill to practice on :-)

Salt Lake City has a summer concert series (free) during the summer, so we went down to one of them.

Toots and the Maytals - a reggae band - they were fabulous!

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And last, but not by any means least the greatest challenge of the summer so far - We decided to hike Mount Timpanogas - and NOT the cave - to the top of the mountain!!!

Let's see, we had: Brent and Tracy; Becky and Jake; Me and Bryan; Lyndsey and Brett; and Bryan and Tyson.

It was quite the adventure, who knew we'd actually be able to drag ourselves out of bed at 2.30 AM to get ready for this thing?!?

We started our hike around 4.30 am, and we were off........til we ran into a stop sign 30 minutes into the hike and realized we weren't on the right trail - oops!

We did finally find the right trail and were on it another hour before it was light enough to turn off the flashlights. It was a very long, very challenging, (did I mention long?) hike, but well worth it to be able to say we did it!

Brent and Tracy on the top of the mountain the valley in the back is the Heber Valley

Me and Bryan on top of the mountain - behind us is Utah Valley and Utah Lake

A picture of me and Bryan along the trail

a picture along the way facing east as the sun was coming up

and one more along the trail.

It's now been 2 days since the hike and we're all still recovering!

Golfing Fun

So, this summer has been very nice and relaxing - and quiet too, with Brittany gone for the past 5 weeks! Although, I could do with more warm weather and less cool weather!

So, we've been making the most of it, and getting in some golfing! I wish I could say that with as much as I've been this year, I was getting better, but, sadly I'm not :-(. Although, Bryan has been doing pretty well.

So, I thought I'd throw some pictures up from our summer of golf so far, and some pictures of the other half of our four-some - Brent and Tracy!

Tracy at Fox Hollow Golf Course (the old Tri-City Course)

Brent and Tracy at Fox Hollow

Me and Bryan at Fox Hollow

Bryan at the Ranches Golf Course

Me and Bryan at The Ranches Golf Course

Brent and Tracy at Hobblecreek - for our annual outing - it even looked like it might rain for a bit, but ended up very nice :-)

Me and Bryan at Hobblecreek