Life Is the Stories You Can Tell
  • Life is the Stories You Can Tell
  • Sing His Praises
  • My Creed
  • Books I Love
  • Christmas Letters

Mother's Day: Mount Ogden

6/28/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Chick valiantly honored his promise to give me a hike for Mother’s Day by accompanying me on a 15.3 mile climb to the top of Mt. Ogden and back via the Beus Canyon trail.   And I do mean climb…. The hike, rated as difficult, has a 5,225 ft ascent and an 13% average grade.  The maximum grade is 47% and a local website says the “climbing is relentless.”   Yep.    The website also said that seasoned hikers could do the roundtrip excursion in 4-5 hours, less seasoned hikers take 9 or more hours.   We spent 9 hours and 15 minutes on the trail.   Yep.   By the time we got to the bottom my new knees and old legs were aching but I love, loved it despite the pain, maybe because of it.   One cannot buy pain like that; it has to be earned.

We hiked through the lower, lush region, including a fern field, and then through more open terrain.  We scrambled up a ravine, which probably took a mile off our ascent (but was very sketchy...we could have broken a leg or tumbled to a painful stop).  Snowfields covered the trail in two places. A large rattlesnake was sunning on the trail in another.  [Chick used a long pole to encourage it to find a different resting spot.]   A cascading spring saved us from a dehydration-caused death...or at least from severe thirst.   Oh how sweet the taste of spring water!   And how sweet the view was…. At the top, we could see Pineview and Snow Basin on one side and Ogden on the other.  Stunning!!!

I don’t know that I will ever feel compelled to hike to the top of Mt. Ogden again, at least not from the Beus Canyon trail, but I am so, SO glad I did it.  For decades I have wanted to be able to say “I hiked to the top of Mt. Ogden.”  Now, thanks to Chick, I can.  

​​

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Teresa Hislop
    [email protected]

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    September 2012
    August 2012

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.