I was on call last night-which meant that I was paid like $1 an hour to spend the night doing this:
Monday, September 15, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Comment on why I'm sad summer is over/why i'm happy fall is coming.....
So right now I'm currently experiencing conflicting emotions. I've had a fun summer that went by way to quickly. In some ways I'm excited for it to be over, but I feel like I didn't have enough time to enjoy the usual summer activities like spending quality time at the pool or hiking in the mountains. Yet I love fall and I'm kind of looking forward to that as well. And so, I decided to create the following lists to help me work through my feelings:
Why I'm Sad Summer Is Over:
1. I love when I leave work at 7:15am and it's warm and the mountains look so beautiful and I can roll down my windows, open up the sunroom, and turn up the music. It's so great!
2. Sleeping with my window open
3. Laying out at the pool those three times-or the beach-I mean I got a really great tan this summer
4. Running outside in the A.M.-it really only happened in L.A., Pocatello and Star Valley this year when I was off work but it was great
5. The sun setting after 9pm-I think it makes night shift feel shorter
6. Vacays! It was crazy going somewhere every month and in a way I'm glad I'm not going anywhere for awhile, but I miss L.A., Vegas and NYC. Those were good times.
7. Barbequed hamburgers and hot dogs-my fave summer food
8. Kenny Chesney in concert-I'm already excited for next year. Let's be honest-I was excited for next year the second the last concert was over.
Why I'm Looking Forward To Fall:
1. The yearly fall Park City trip-Baja Cantina, caramel apples at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, the crisp feel of the air-I don't think it gets much better
2. The new fall tv season-hopefully there isn't any kind of striking going on so we can get a full season of The Office, ER, Gossip Girl, Bones, etc. I think I may need tivo
3. Fall clothes-more importantly-long sleeved t-shirts, sweatpants, polar fleece
4. The fall leaves-although thanks to the Corner Canyon fire we won't get too much of a view of them this year
5. Getting back to a regular schedule
6. My little bro coming home from his mission in the Philippines
Why I'm Sad Summer Is Over:
1. I love when I leave work at 7:15am and it's warm and the mountains look so beautiful and I can roll down my windows, open up the sunroom, and turn up the music. It's so great!
2. Sleeping with my window open
3. Laying out at the pool those three times-or the beach-I mean I got a really great tan this summer
4. Running outside in the A.M.-it really only happened in L.A., Pocatello and Star Valley this year when I was off work but it was great
5. The sun setting after 9pm-I think it makes night shift feel shorter
6. Vacays! It was crazy going somewhere every month and in a way I'm glad I'm not going anywhere for awhile, but I miss L.A., Vegas and NYC. Those were good times.
7. Barbequed hamburgers and hot dogs-my fave summer food
8. Kenny Chesney in concert-I'm already excited for next year. Let's be honest-I was excited for next year the second the last concert was over.
Why I'm Looking Forward To Fall:
1. The yearly fall Park City trip-Baja Cantina, caramel apples at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, the crisp feel of the air-I don't think it gets much better
2. The new fall tv season-hopefully there isn't any kind of striking going on so we can get a full season of The Office, ER, Gossip Girl, Bones, etc. I think I may need tivo
3. Fall clothes-more importantly-long sleeved t-shirts, sweatpants, polar fleece
4. The fall leaves-although thanks to the Corner Canyon fire we won't get too much of a view of them this year
5. Getting back to a regular schedule
6. My little bro coming home from his mission in the Philippines
7. That crisp fall feeling in the air
8. My cousin Jamie getting married-that will be a lot of fun-congrats Jamie!
9. Gas prices falling because the oil companies aren't trying to make a huge profit on summer travelers.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Comment on the damage we put our bodies through-aka the last great Timp hike.....
So I lived through Hobble Creek, completely discounting that the following week was the great Timp Hike of 2008. Last year Steff, Lisa and I had hiked it-all the way to the summit don't you worry-and we decided to do it again Labor Day weekend this year-maybe turning it into a tradition if you will.
Because of all the running I hadn't hiked all year so i was really excited to go, even though I knew that it is such a LONG hike. I just wanted to be in the mountains. My goal this year was to just do the saddle, or maybe the meadow, depending on how tired I was.
We met Steff at Kohler's in Alpine and then headed up the mountain. When we stopped to pay the $6 (I remember when it was $2, granted that was like in '99 but whatever) we learned that the trailhead parking lot was full. It was a silent ride to the trailhead-I was thinking there's no way I'm going to park a mile away from the trailhead, walk up to the trailhead, hike, and then have to walk another mile back to my car. Are you kidding me?
When we got to the turnoff the road was baracaded off, and a park ranger was giving us the parking spiel (sp?)-then out of nowhere he turns to his partner and asks if she gave away the last spot-she said no-he said the spot is yours then-so we drove up to the parking lot past all these people walking. I'm pretty sure they hated us. Oh well.
This is Steff and Lisa and I all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ready to hike.
I feel like we got started a little late, because we weren't hiking in the dark all that long. I wore the trusty garmin so that I could mark our mileage-thinking that would help me on the way back to know how far I was from the end since it's such a LONG hike (it didn't really help). One thing we noted is that we were SO TIRED and dead. It was a situation. WE didn't think we should be that tired 1 mile into the hike.
These pics were taken on one of our snack breaks in the "first"meadow. I was pretty much ready to be done and to just sit and enjoy the view of the sun coming up over the mountains, but I wanted to make it to the "second" meadow right before the ascent to the top. This is where I realized I just wanted to enjoy the mountains on this hike.
This rocky part of the trail is my least favorite part of the entire trail. Seriously.
We decided to stop at this log for a water break-which is wehre we'd stopped before-no big deal. We were tired, and it was a good spot to stop. There were groups of people (or should I say BYU students) coming down from hiking up to see the sunrise. One kid tripped and almost landed on a log on the trail that would have impaled his chest-I said it was a good thing that I was a nurse just in case he had hurt himself. Steff pointed out that he was over my 8 pound weight limit-good point Steff.
Lisa had a small issue with her camelback-she put her backpack down and well, the mouthpiece fell in the dirt. We found this really funny-we couldn't stop laughing about it for like 5 minutes.
We finally made it to the meadow and had lunch. I decided that I wanted to head back down so that I could enjoy my hike without being in severe pain on the way down. Steff and Lisa wanted to head to the saddle-I was fine with that. It was actually really nice to hike alone-it was quiet and peaceful-I enjoyed it. And although I was thinking that I had turned around at a good time in order to enjoy the entire hike, I wanted to shoot myself the last mile. I did hike 10 miles though, so even though I didn't go to the saddle it was still a decent hike.
I made it to the bottom! My favorite part of the end of the hike was seeing a park ranger and a SWAT team guy heading up the trail with these huge guns and shells-they asked if I had seen the moose-I said no but that would have been cool for pictures-they said it wasn't cool for the people who ran into the moose. Apparently the moose was on the trail and got scared and started running, knocking people off the trail. I ran into one more ranger at the bottom, and in the parking lot there were like 5-6 ranger trucks and 5-6 police cars. I talked to a few more rangers, they said nobody was hurt, it was just scary. Then while sitting in my car waiting for Steff and Lisa I heard one of the rangers say they were going to 'take out' the moose because it was aggressive. Kind of interesting, right?
The best part of the hike was Purple Turtle afterwards for tator tots and shakes. They have the BEST fry sauce. So good!
On a different note, I think we're done with hiking Timp. Next year we'll try some different trails. Maybe some that aren't so painful.
Because of all the running I hadn't hiked all year so i was really excited to go, even though I knew that it is such a LONG hike. I just wanted to be in the mountains. My goal this year was to just do the saddle, or maybe the meadow, depending on how tired I was.
We met Steff at Kohler's in Alpine and then headed up the mountain. When we stopped to pay the $6 (I remember when it was $2, granted that was like in '99 but whatever) we learned that the trailhead parking lot was full. It was a silent ride to the trailhead-I was thinking there's no way I'm going to park a mile away from the trailhead, walk up to the trailhead, hike, and then have to walk another mile back to my car. Are you kidding me?
When we got to the turnoff the road was baracaded off, and a park ranger was giving us the parking spiel (sp?)-then out of nowhere he turns to his partner and asks if she gave away the last spot-she said no-he said the spot is yours then-so we drove up to the parking lot past all these people walking. I'm pretty sure they hated us. Oh well.
This is Steff and Lisa and I all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ready to hike.
I feel like we got started a little late, because we weren't hiking in the dark all that long. I wore the trusty garmin so that I could mark our mileage-thinking that would help me on the way back to know how far I was from the end since it's such a LONG hike (it didn't really help). One thing we noted is that we were SO TIRED and dead. It was a situation. WE didn't think we should be that tired 1 mile into the hike.
These pics were taken on one of our snack breaks in the "first"meadow. I was pretty much ready to be done and to just sit and enjoy the view of the sun coming up over the mountains, but I wanted to make it to the "second" meadow right before the ascent to the top. This is where I realized I just wanted to enjoy the mountains on this hike.
This rocky part of the trail is my least favorite part of the entire trail. Seriously.
We decided to stop at this log for a water break-which is wehre we'd stopped before-no big deal. We were tired, and it was a good spot to stop. There were groups of people (or should I say BYU students) coming down from hiking up to see the sunrise. One kid tripped and almost landed on a log on the trail that would have impaled his chest-I said it was a good thing that I was a nurse just in case he had hurt himself. Steff pointed out that he was over my 8 pound weight limit-good point Steff.
Lisa had a small issue with her camelback-she put her backpack down and well, the mouthpiece fell in the dirt. We found this really funny-we couldn't stop laughing about it for like 5 minutes.
We finally made it to the meadow and had lunch. I decided that I wanted to head back down so that I could enjoy my hike without being in severe pain on the way down. Steff and Lisa wanted to head to the saddle-I was fine with that. It was actually really nice to hike alone-it was quiet and peaceful-I enjoyed it. And although I was thinking that I had turned around at a good time in order to enjoy the entire hike, I wanted to shoot myself the last mile. I did hike 10 miles though, so even though I didn't go to the saddle it was still a decent hike.
I made it to the bottom! My favorite part of the end of the hike was seeing a park ranger and a SWAT team guy heading up the trail with these huge guns and shells-they asked if I had seen the moose-I said no but that would have been cool for pictures-they said it wasn't cool for the people who ran into the moose. Apparently the moose was on the trail and got scared and started running, knocking people off the trail. I ran into one more ranger at the bottom, and in the parking lot there were like 5-6 ranger trucks and 5-6 police cars. I talked to a few more rangers, they said nobody was hurt, it was just scary. Then while sitting in my car waiting for Steff and Lisa I heard one of the rangers say they were going to 'take out' the moose because it was aggressive. Kind of interesting, right?
The best part of the hike was Purple Turtle afterwards for tator tots and shakes. They have the BEST fry sauce. So good!
On a different note, I think we're done with hiking Timp. Next year we'll try some different trails. Maybe some that aren't so painful.
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