We are busy scouting out places for a whole family picture. We want to have some of the red maples, yellow aspen and green evergreen trees, rocky mountains and maybe some small lake in the background.
I don't ask for much do I?
So we've been out on hikes in our gorgeous Utah mountains surrounding the ski areas of Alta, Snowbird and Brighton Resorts. Here are a few great pics I got.
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| Here is the beginning of the trail...just to the right up is the ski lift at Brighton Ski Resort Hike.... |
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| It is weird that the hiking trail is all through a ski resort! So nice of them to let us do this! |
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| the first real landing we came to... it was hard hiking straight up for most of it! |
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| Almost to the pasture area of Dog Lake...This would be a perfect shot if there were more wildflowers or more color.... |
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| We saw a family of 4 moose on the Dog Lake Hike... |
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| On a rock at Dog Lake....that's the first lake you come to...it's tiny but picturesque |
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| PHOTO OP! This is getting blown up to an 8 x 10 for sure! Beautiful Dog Lake Hiking.... |
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| You can see several of the moose we saw...a buck in the background.....they didn't seem to mind us at all..... |
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| The hubs and I... |
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| A close up of the baby moose....so cute! |
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| There were a few wildflowers here and there....October would probably be even prettier! |
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| We got close and took a shot of the mama right, and baby, left. Then we got outta there! We don't want a charging moose mama marring our hike! Yeah...getting impaled by a moose? Not so fun.... |
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| Now if I could only get my whole family on top of this hill...what a great shot this would be! |
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| When I turned around to see how high we were I almost fell off the rock! Scared of heights EEK! |
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| Can you see the waterfall just to the left of us....it was so loud! |
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| We saw 6 moose in all ...this was a mom with a baby nearby we saw on the way back.....They were bedding down for the night under a tree....so sweet! |
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| We set up the tripod again at Mary's Lake.... another good shot! |
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| Lots of granite rock everywhere....at Mary's Lake in Utah.... |
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| Mary's Lake....peaceful and rocky.... |
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| Last part of the trail down....it was sunset almost....everything was so cool..... |
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| Some of the wildflowers we saw..... |
We enjoyed hiking up Brighton's Lake Mary trail. It was really beautiful. Hard on the knees coming down, but worth it.
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Brighton Ski Resort hiking in the summer...super fun half day trip! Very easy too.....I think 5 year olds could do it....
It took us about 2 1/2 hours start to finish and we sat around the lake a half hour just enjoying it all.....Try it! |
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