Mount Olympus Peak

Special off-site IUHC event with Kirk and Jeffry.

Trail Head: 4884 ft
Peak: 9030 ft
Time to peak: 3 hrs

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Mike on the peak of Mount Olympus

Jeffry doing paperwork on the summit of Mount Olympus

From the top of Mount Olympus

SLC from the summit of Mount Olympus

Good view of the Mount Olympis peak

First sight of the peak of Olympia

Kirk & Jeffry on the trail

Sun on Oak-erz

SLC lights

Stream crossing on the Battle Creek Canyon trail

Timpanogos Peak from the Curly Springs trail near Battle Creek

Heading up Dry Creek canyon on my way to Curly Springs

The Couch - OBWMA

Hunter on the mountain

Afternoon Sky

Mill Canyon Peak

Description coming soon...
Stats: 4.0 miles
Trail head: 8314 ft
Peak: 10348 ft

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Photos: Flickr

T&L on Mill Canyon Peak summit with Timpanogos in the background and my anti-being-shot-by-deer-hunters-hat

Nutmeg on Mill Canyon Peak summit with Timpanogos in the backgroung

Timpanogos from Mill Canyon Peak summit

Mill Canyon Peak

Timpanogos from the side of Mill Canyon Peak

Grove Creek to Battle Creek Loop

Hike description coming soon...

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Photos: Flickr

The Valley

Grove Creek Spring

Nutmeg looking up at Timpanogos

On the trail

Grove creek falls

There's some horsing around going on up here

More moon

Morning moon

Out for a walk in the Kansas county side

The arrival at the farm

Kansas City's Union Station

On the way up Pioneer Peak

Cascade also ready for winter

Timpanogos all ready for winter

Snow on Timpanogos this morning

Nutmeg picked up some green on our walk this morning

Deseret Peak Hike

Jeffry and I left Orem at 6:30am, the GPS was estimating 1 hr 30 min to drive to the trailhead. It was a pretty good estimate so we arrived, took a natural break and were on our way at 8:05am. About 15 min into the hike there is a tricky navigation spot on the trail. I was lucky that Jeffry had read a trip report carefully and we were able to stay on the correct trail. A sign would help hikers like the ones we talked to near the peak that missed the correct trail at that spot
We caught up with a pair of hikers that we leaving the trailhead as we drove up. We chatted with them for a bit. They had both hiked Deseret Peak several times and recommended the north trail down from the peak. They both work at Dugway Proving Grounds and live in Tooele.
To be continued...


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Aspen's Turning on Deseret Peak Trail

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Cascade Mountain blanketed in snowon this rainy Sunday just before noon

Jeffry on top

Only the clouds get sun on my suburban, morning walk.

Tri-peak Loop: Millicent, Wolverine & Tuscarora Peaks

Ever since the Sunset Peak hike I wanted to return to Brighton and do some more peaks in the area. I noticed on Google Earth that these three peaks are close together and all hikable. Justin and I left the Brighton ski resort parking lot at about 8:30am, it was much warmer than two weeks before when I hiked Sunset Peak.

The walk up the road to the top of Millicent lift was a typical forest service road. At the top of the lift I looked up and saw that what looked like a nice hill on Google Earth was a boulder pile that would require a long scramble to the top. I had been hoping for a trail. We made it to the top in fairly good time. We only stopped to look at some big device mounted on the mountain side that we figured must be something to do with avalanche control.

Millicent Peak had a great view, stay tuned for a nice panorama which I need to stitch. 360 degrees of incredible alpine scenery. We quickly enjoied the view, took photos and headed on to the next peak.

What looked on Google Earth like a nice flat meadow between the peaks was really a steep hillside. The terrain was great for walking and we quickly reached Wolverine Peak. We relaxed to eat lunch while we enjoyed the view. The temperature began to drop quickly. We finished lunch, added a few layers and took more photos, we were on the peak for almost and hour.

Just as we headed off to tackle the third peak a thunderstorm materialized right above us. We were on the somewhat exposed pass between Wolverine and Tuscarora peaks as the lighting and thunder started. We took shelter between the rocky ridge and trees to wait out the storm. Though it materialized quickly it felt like the storm was holding still right above us. There were blue skys all around except right above our heads. I didn't want to abandon the attempt on the third peakbut the storm just wasn't moving after a 30 min wait. We retreated back towards Wolverine down in the trees in the center of the three peaks. We found I nice spot to hold up and wait a bit longer. After about 20 min the storm finnaly cleared above Tuscarora Peak so we headed out.

The rest of the walk towards Tuscarora was short. I was still nervous about lighting so I quickly visited the top of the peak and moved down. Before heading down we chatted with a couple that had come up from Cathrine Pass to Tuscarora. They were avid hikers and had been al over Utah. I got a few hike ideas from them for the future.

It was another short walk down to Cathrine Pass were we doffed the extra layers we had added at Wolverine Peak and had a snack at the pass. We started seeing lots of other hikers on the trails. We started down on the well worn Brighton Lakes Trail. We saw more and more other hikers as we hiked down to the the trail head. At Lake Mary there was dozens of people emerging from the trail to the open area near the dam.

After a few photos we continued on down to the parking lot. The trail from Lake Mary to the parking lot is busy, wide and well worn.

Length: 5.4 miles
Trail head: 8625 ft
Millicent Peak: 10,452 ft
Wolverine Peak: 10,795 ft
Tuscarora Peak: 10,640 ft

Photos: Flickr
GPS Tracks: kml gpx