Happy Trails

Last weekend Christopher and I hiked up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Red Pine Lake. The weather report said it would be snowing. It didn't snow but it sure was chilly. It was cold enough that we could see our breath. Not typical weather for the middle of August, even in the mountains. It was about a 9 mile trek round trip. It was a fun trip and the wild flowers were in full bloom.



There is another lake on the other side of the ridge at Red Pine Lake. We attempted to traverse some boulders to get to it since the trail had disappeared but I got tired of climbing and so we decided not to attempt it. This is how far we got up the mountainside before we went back down.



On the way back down the trail, we came across this cute little bunny rabbit in the middle of the trail. It let me get pretty close to it but ran back into the bushes after Chris tried to feed it a granola bar.



A true hiker at heart... Chris wants to hike Timp so this was supposedly a prep hike.