Trail Of Eagles (Joe's Birthday)

Today is Joes birthday. We woke to a cloudy and rainy day.
Our decision was 1) Stay home and be bored.  2) Face the storm.
Being silly keeps us young.



The foothills:

We climbed the hills to Bonneville trail. Then we walked South.
After looking at a view we doubled back to a little canyon:

This bridge had a Cougar warning posted on it.
Apparently cougars like to walk across it too:

Birthday boy:

Birthday boys wife:

We went up the Trail Of The Eagles.
We only went part way , because the rain was increasing:

Still smiling:

By the time we got to the car we were soaked, but it was fun
Happy Birthday Joe!!
Just for the record, we attended the Broadway play 'War Horse' at the Capitol Theater on Thursday.

Narrow Canyon

There is a park on Wasatch Blvd. about 10 minutes from the house.
It has access to Bonneville Shoreline trail. From the trail we can enter a rocky and narrow canyon.


These pictures show some of the canyon.

A huge boulder sticks out over the trail.
There's a nice drop off behind you:

An obstruction in the trail to climb over:

We came to what seemed like a dead end.
From there we were able to climb a little higher.




View:

I found a big walking stick to help me back down.
There is a little water coming over a spillway.

Next we walked along Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
Good view of the valley.

Oh look,  another canyon to explore!

So, our new season of walks and hikes is underway.

Lakota Dictionary

I have been learning the Lakota language for about a year.
It may seem like a strange interest, but after doing Native American studies, I developed a desire to do something like this.
When I looked into it I found that this language program had been created only recently.
I never thought of myself as good with languages, but I have really taken to this one.

In the last month I decided that I was ready for the next step, which I believed required a special dictionary.
I looked into it and amazingly there was a brand new dictionary that hasn't been available for very long.

It just came, and I'm very excited!

The first part is Lakota to English.
The middle is Grammar.
The last section is English to Lakota:

It would sure help if I had a photographic memory!
I may be average but I am unique. That's okay, right?

Dimple Dell

Today Joe and I went on a very fun Sunday evening walk.
He let me talk his ears off the whole time. (:
Mostly I practiced  Lakota on him all along the way.
I'm actually remembering more and more words and I'm putting sentences together.


Anyway, the bottom of Dimple Dell is an interesting place.
It has miles of horse trails.
There's a pond,  a couple of pretty bridges, and in late Spring there is a nice stream.

The trail was a little muddy, so we walked a lot in the dry stream bed.

This is near where we climbed back out of the gorge.

Okay, so Joe insisted on taking a picture of the back of my head. Enjoy!

The End!

Return Of Spring

What do hikers look forward too?
The return of Spring!



This is a typical evening walk.

I am still waiting for the snow on the top of the mountains to go away.
The skiiers in the family are sort of sad, but the hikers are happy!