We did Timpooneke Trail..about 7 miles each way, 14 miles round trip.
We started at 2:30am. (I took this picture on the way out)
Sunrise. This is how high up we made it in the dark.
This meadow is at about 10000 ft. elevation I think.
Still have almost 2000 ft to climb to the top. See the 'glacier' on the left?
More flowers.
Kelly on the trail.
We had to cross a couple of snow patches...
Across the ridge, but not quite to the top yet...that is Orem and Lehi behind me.
mountain goats near the top...
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The trail to the summit...
The SUMMIT!
YEAH! 11749 ft. above sea level.
The summit markers..
We saw two of them up there...one inside the shack, one outside.
Kelly on Timpanogos summit.
Me on Timpanogos summit. About 9:30am.
Guess how we took this picture? I carried my heavy tripod all the way up there! Stupid me, but it came in handy.
On a spur of the moment kind of thing, Kelly and I decided to climb Timpanogos. We started at 2:30am, saw a huge bullwinkle moose right on the trail 10 yards from us, which scared the crap out of us, took a couple little power naps cause we didn't sleep more than an hour the night before, and made it to the top around 9:30am. We hid some of our gatorades in the bushes in the meadow at 10000 ft. so we wouldn't have to carry them that last 1750 feet up, and drank them when we got back to the bottom. We didn't slide down the glacier, we walked the long way back down. Oh yeah, we saw a few mountain goats on the way up and back down, near the top. I was an idiot and brought the Mamiya RZ67 and my canon cameras, and tripod all the way to the top.
The Mamiya is huge and people at the summit were asking me how I got it up there...(the pictures of me and Kelly in front of the little hut were taken with the Mamiya). The black and white film is Ilford HP5+ (ISO 400) and the color is Fuji Velvia 50 and 100 slide film.
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