Hey did we ever have fun over the 24th of July Holiday. We stayed at the cabin and then 4 wheeled up Fish Creek to Skyline Drive with Janet, Sam and Erica, on the 24th. The Fish Creek trail had been washed out near the beginning so the Forest Service had made a new trail up the side of the mountain. It was very narrow but fun to 4 wheel on. When we approached Skyline Drive, there were large fields of Larkspur.

Jan decided to sit in the flowers to see if I could tell the difference. She is certainly a flower among the larkspur.

We even found a Scarlet Gilia.

There were also lots of these little puffballs.


If you can identify them, let me know.

The following day, the 25th, we went 4 wheeling again, this time up the Right Fork of Hobble Creek with Tarre and Michelle and Parris and Lori. We drove to the end of the pavement and used the 4 wheelers after that. We stayed on the main trail (road) for a few miles and then took a side trail to try to get where we could see more. It was a great trail, but made by 4X4 trucks. The 4 wheelers didn't fit into the rut very well.

Tarre & Michelle, Jan & Larre, Lori & Parris

There some really large mud bogs. We finally came to one that we didn't really want to go across so we turned around and had just started back when a 4X4 truck with a trailer on back came up to the bog. We didn't think he could make it across, but he gunned it and with the trailer sliding down into the bog he made it across. Good luck to whoever it was. They could only go a few hundred more feet because the road was blocked with downed timber.

That night we watched the Spanish Fork fireworks from our deck.

After thinking that we were not going to do much for the Holiday, we really had a blast.

Deer July 16, 2009

Just thought you might like to see a couple of visitors that we had yesterday in our front yard. This Mr. 4* point and Mr. 3 point. Notice that Mr. 4* point has an irregular tine hanging down on his left antler.

Mister 4*point

Mister 3 point

Mister 4* point and Mister 3 point