Assault on Santaquin Peak

Rosey and I tackled our second mountain peak this weekend: we hiked to the top of Santaquin Peak on Loafer Mountain. It was a 13 mile round trip hike with an elevation of 10, 648 ft at the peak. The peak was only about 3,000 ft higher than the trailhead but because the trail constantly gained and then lost elevation we did substantially more climbing than that figure would suggest.


The rest of the pictures are here.

This is the second of three goal hikes that I had planned for this summer:

• Timpanogos Peak [done]
  
• Santaquin Peak [done]
  
• Spanish Fork Peak

We will probably tackle Spanish Fork peak within the next couple of weekends.

This may be too much information (even for a blog) but this hike was achieved despite facing great adversity. On friday night (before the hike), we tried out Rosey's quesadilla maker. The quesadilla's were so good that I ate 3 of them. Mmmm. Turns out that it's not such a good idea to eat that much cheese before going on a 13 mile hike up a mountain :)

We were less than a mile into the hike before it felt like my ass was going to explode. It was very unpleasant. Fortunately Rosey thought to bring wet wipes and there were plenty of bushes for cover. Between the two of us, we had a total of 3 ass-splosions on that mountain. We're probably not going to be making quesadilla's before our next big hike :)

Switching gears...

One of the cool things about having the GPS is that it records the path that you take on a hike. When I got back home, I downloaded the GPS data off of the device and fed it into Google Earth to get a 3D satellite imagery representation of the hike that we went on. I have a screenshot posted below, but to get the full effect you really need to download Google Earth and then look at this file.


(N.B. - The mountain wasn't really covered in snow when we hiked it... the satellite imagery used by Google Earth is usually at least several months old or more. So this image was probably from this spring or maybe even sometime last year.)