Crimson Trail and White Pine Lake Trail

Mom and Dad are visiting, and that's inspired us to do some hiking.  The weather has actually been kind of foggy and rainy, but both days we hiked ended up just beautiful!  And the fall color in the canyon is really nice.  There are a lot of photos below, because it's just too beautiful to choose a few...

The Crimson Trail, 10 minutes from our house:

White Pine Lake Trail, 45 minutes away:

The Wind Caves

The Wind Caves are about 6 miles up Logan Canyon.  We took advantage of our holiday weekend to do the quick jaunt up... and it was clearly worth it!

The view towards our destination 

Standing on top of the Wind Caves, 1000 feet above the canyon floor

Note the sleeping baby... no appreciation for nature's drama

Miriam finished the hike on her own!

Mountains!

There's not a day that goes by in which I don't think, "Wow, those mountains are incredible."

Here's the view down the street on campus towards the Fine Arts Building, where I work:

  

And here's the view I see every day coming home from work.  That valley down below?  That's where my bike ride in starts--we live a block from the giant temple.  Let's just say, I don't always make it the whole way on the bike...

And here are a few shots from a quick canyon trip we took yesterday night.  This is all within about 10 minutes of our house.

About halfway up is a triple arch called the "Wind Caves."

A few pictures from a drive up Logan Canyon

Happy family at home

We finally got to drive up the canyon today! It was just incredible. The entire drive was beautiful, but the highlights were stops at Tony Grove Lake and then Bear Lake, which is half in Idaho.

Starting our little hike at Tony Grove

Maneuvering the stroller over some rocks

  

Bear Lake overlook--gorgeous!

Garden City, on Bear Lake, is known for its delicious raspberry shakes...

And, of course, its raspberries!