Saturday, October 17, 2009

The Leaves They Are A Changin'

Today we hiked to the "Living Room" in the foothills above Salt Lake City. It has a great view overlooking the city and the Salt Lake Valley, but the changing leaves added a bonus to the day.

Here's a shot as we started up the trail...


The trail was somewhat rocky, but not too bad. Here's a picture of a rocky section of the hillside with some trees growing out from the face.

Mountains in the distance, while the colors change....


You can see some of the trees have already turned orange.


Another shot of the mountains in the distance.


We accidentally went off the main trail (again) and ended up taking a much more difficult path that included crawling / clinging / climbing over semi-steep rock faces like this one. Dave takes a breather...



This is one of the hills we had to climb OVER to get to the Living Room. It was a bit of a challenge.... we took the easy way down!



A view over Dave's shoulder at the Living Room. As you can see, people have taken long flat rocks and created a Flinstones like set-up with tables and chairs. It was actually pretty comfortable and the view was great.




Here's a couple shots of the rock recliners / sofas / tables.




Now you understand why they call it the Living Room!



A hazy shot of the city from the comfort of the Living Room.....





Kate lounges....



A shot of the valley over Kate's shoulder. This shot also gives you a better view of what we had to climb over to get here. These peaks are really two or three separate hills over which we climbed up and down and up and down, finally reaching our destination. It looks far less treacherous from this side though - the other side was much rockier!



Here we are!


And as we headed back down the trail, we took a quick picture of ourselves in front of this beautiful tree! Fall is here!




All in all it was a very fun hike, despite being more difficult than we intended. Thanks again to Mark and Tricia for the hiking book!

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