Going Home: I Love the Mountains

Since Kentucky doesn't really have mountains, I always like to get my fill whenever I go home!

While visiting Brittney, we took a little hike in the mountains above Pleasant View, where Brittney was living at the time ...

The Heelis' had a little reunion at Camp Aerie, a Stake Girl's Camp up the canyon from Kamas/Marion Utah. 

Beautiful Pines, Aspens, and wild flowers

View of Heber Valley through the trees

Matt's truck and side-by-side. Matt booked the camp after he discovered it when Morgan went to Girl's Camp there. And the best part was no one really knew about it, so we had the entire camp to ourselves the Monday and Tuesday before the fourth of July!

Everyone arriving ...

Saul's family

Mom and Melanie's family

and Sasha's family

Merinda helping Brad put up the tents

Brad's and my tent, and Merinda's tent

Mom's tent

Melanie and Eric putting up their tent

Sasha and Chris putting up their tent

Visiting and catching up ...

Darek and Eric

Cousins' Hyrum, Corbin, Jayden, Tage, and Bode

Saul & Matt's youngest kids...Brock, Tyson, Blakely, and Talmage

Saul's twins Blakely and Boden with Brock

The little kids finding ways to entertain themselves

Matt, Brei, and Brad cooking the meat for pot-luck taco salads

Sasha's kids Ari and Dante

The forest at dusk

Melanie dressing Mason's wound

 Roasting and eating Wolffums (pieces of dough wrapped around a stick, roasted in the fire, and eaten with yummy toppings).

Moon through the forest trees

The "cooks" making French toast (with all the trimmings), bacon, and sausage for breakfast

 Mike Wazowski enjoying his breakfast

Cutie cousins Ari and Aspen (Sasha & Melanie's youngest) catching butterflies

More Mountains...

View of Wasatch Front from Sasha's deck 

"Y" Mountain above Provo Utah

Brad's and my hike to the "Y"

Going up ...

little hikers...

and old (not Brad, but the older gentleman in front of him)

Beautiful rainbow...

beginning at south Utah valley

and ending over Utah Lake and the West Mountains

Double rainbow 

Trails to the bottom and middle of the Y

View from bottom of  Y looking up

View from middle of Y looking up

View from top of Y looking down

Side view of Y

Selfies at top of Y

Pointing out landmarks ...

Seven Peaks

Payson Temple distant left

Mt. Timpanogos and Provo Temples

Provo City Center Temple

BYU campus

Going down ...

Y-hike parking lot

Girls hike to Curly Springs on Mt. Baldy trail, via Dry Canyon in Pleasant Grove, Utah

Going up ...

Sasha, me, and Cindy

Rachelle, Sasha, and Cindy

 looking at the valley below

A little farther up

Small detour to Battlecreek Canyon and campground ...

Going back up ...

Views of Little Baldy,

Big Baldy,

and Timp

Mt. Mahogany and Battlecreek Canyon

Veiws of Utah Lake and Valley

Going down (Big Baldy) ...

(Little Baldy)

Finally finding Curly Springs ...

Just goes to show it's not the destination but the journey...

Approaching Dry Canyon