Ice Climbing

Spanish Fork Peak, Crowd Ridge

This is the summit! We couldn't see a thing. We were exhausted, cold, and pumped.
The view down before the whiteout.
Snow on my back while eating my lunch.


This is Crowd Ridge. Robb and I woke up at 5:30am to drive down to Spanish Fork. First we parked at a lot and carpooled in a 4WD car up to the trailhead. Once we got started we hiked up until it was time for us to put our Snow shoes on. These were special snowshoes that had an ascent helper so we could walk uphill. The first part of the snowshoeing was great, easy, a slight incline. THEN it got technical. This mountain had at least 4 false summits and it was extremely steep. About half way up it started to get really windy, and then the snow started to blow with the wind. It was intense. When we got to the last false summit it was a complete whiteout. We had some food, and water and started to descend. Overall, it was a great trip. Lots of work! I was so sore the next 3 days I could barely walk.

The second little part, people left their skis.
Here, Robb has icicles on his cheek it was so cold and windy!

My hat, cheeks, and hair is frozen.
We are just about to put our snow shoes on.

Christmas in Kennewick

This Christmas we went to Kennewick where Robb is from and spent time with his family. We did lots of fun things and ate lots of tasty food.


New Year's Eve the grandkids acted out the nativity. It was pretty good. Very animated. I think Sleeping Beauty was Baby Jesus. It was fun to see the nativity, and reminded us why we celebrated Christmas.


This is what the Christmas Tree looked like before we started opening the presents. Very beautifully decorated!
Christmas came a little to early for Mr. Robb. We definitely got spoiled!

Opening presents wore out someone...

Mt Timp pt 2

Once we made it up some pretty steep switch backs and over a ridge, we came to this beautiful meadow with a great view.

We also met a lot of goats in the valley! They weren't scared of us at all and they were pretty cute to look at. There were about ten of them here in the valley and crossed the path we were on.

We finally made it to where we were going to camp out at. It is called Emerald Lake. That Glacier there is what we ended up sliding down from the summit. This lake also feeds the waterfalls down below. The water was so clear and blue. Definitely worth the climb up.
Near the top, we took a break to have some trail mix. Our little friend here kept coming back for a treat. Robb was nice enough to share a walnut with him since I couldn't eat the nuts. He is obviously enjoying himself.

Mt Timp

After an hour on the wrong trail and about forty minutes on the right trail, we were very tired and hot. Luckily, we came to the first waterfall! This picture shows our poor attempts at figuring out the self timer on my camera. We were so hot we thought about jumping in, but in the end we only got our feet in. The water was really cold.
This is the second waterfall we came to. Some nice kid took our picture for us. This is about an hour on the real trail and we were already super tired.
Here is Robb thinking about getting in the glacier water.
There was a nice cool mist that helped us cool down.
Another nice shot of Robb and I near the waterfall.

Claire and Michelle

We took some pictures. Claire is adorable and always happy.

My Life So Far....

My new school!! I am student teaching for the second grade and Mapleton Elementary. I took some pictures around my school.



I hiked the Y!