Thursday, August 26, 2010
Hiking Mt Timp - part 2
If you haven't looked at the pictures from "part 1" yet, start below.
This is "The glacier", which basically climbs up the hill from "The lake", up to the very top. Some people climb down from the peak by sliding down the glacier, but one hears about serious accidents nearly every year from people doing that. So we didn't.
A couple of the students hiked a little ways up the glacier. Here's a cool shot looking back over the lake.
And a nice butterfly.
Here's my student Matt, still at the lake. He took several hundred pictures on the hike, I believe, but he hasn't gotten them to me yet so none of these are from him.
And here's Courtney.
Leaving the lake, it wasn't too far before we could see how we were going to get to the top. Namely, the trail went through this rock slide for a ways, then climbed abruptly. You can see the abrupt climb start if you start at the middle of the person's visible forearm, and go over to the right about 30% of way across the picture. The trail climbs up (to the right in this picture), switches back, then climbs some more (to the left) until it reaches "The saddle". The saddle is the lowest point on the ridge line on the left hand side of the picture. The saddle is the first point along the whole trail where you can look out over Utah Valley. The trail then keeps going left (in this picture), along the ridge line all the way to the edge of this picture, and beyond.
This is now looking back over the rock field (boy that was a pain to cross!). You can see the abrupt drop-off at what I described earlier as the Aspen Grove ridge line.
Here's a closer-up view of the saddle. Almost there, now!
Now we're at the saddle! Be sure to click on this picture to enlarge. (Or even download it, so you can zoom in with a jpg viewing program of your choice.) This is probably the best panorama shot I've ever created, done by stitching together 5 individual pictures. It represents pretty close to a 180 degree view facing westward at the saddle.
The sweaty hiker is enjoying a brief respite at the saddle.
This is "The glacier", which basically climbs up the hill from "The lake", up to the very top. Some people climb down from the peak by sliding down the glacier, but one hears about serious accidents nearly every year from people doing that. So we didn't.
A couple of the students hiked a little ways up the glacier. Here's a cool shot looking back over the lake.
And a nice butterfly.
Here's my student Matt, still at the lake. He took several hundred pictures on the hike, I believe, but he hasn't gotten them to me yet so none of these are from him.
And here's Courtney.
Leaving the lake, it wasn't too far before we could see how we were going to get to the top. Namely, the trail went through this rock slide for a ways, then climbed abruptly. You can see the abrupt climb start if you start at the middle of the person's visible forearm, and go over to the right about 30% of way across the picture. The trail climbs up (to the right in this picture), switches back, then climbs some more (to the left) until it reaches "The saddle". The saddle is the lowest point on the ridge line on the left hand side of the picture. The saddle is the first point along the whole trail where you can look out over Utah Valley. The trail then keeps going left (in this picture), along the ridge line all the way to the edge of this picture, and beyond.
This is now looking back over the rock field (boy that was a pain to cross!). You can see the abrupt drop-off at what I described earlier as the Aspen Grove ridge line.
Here's a closer-up view of the saddle. Almost there, now!
Now we're at the saddle! Be sure to click on this picture to enlarge. (Or even download it, so you can zoom in with a jpg viewing program of your choice.) This is probably the best panorama shot I've ever created, done by stitching together 5 individual pictures. It represents pretty close to a 180 degree view facing westward at the saddle.
The sweaty hiker is enjoying a brief respite at the saddle.
# posted by John Colton @ 10:05 PM 
