hiking above ogden

before you read on, i would like to clarify what part of ogden i am refering to. you are probably thinking ogden like above weber state and mount ogden park right? well i'm not. i am talking about above ogden like above ben lomond high and ninth street. are you with me now? well you will be soon.

the scene is 3pm at my house (pete and amy). carrie and micah are also in this scene. if you were out yesterday, it was beautiful outside. 55F was the average temp. calculated by my built in thermometer. earlier that day we had decided to go for a hike, but were at a loss as to where would be a dry, non-muddy area. the rain the three days before was hindering our dreams of spring hiking, but the area above my house was surprisingly dry.

okay, now you are with me, and here we go. we started out walking/strolling casually along, and we ended up at this area of rocks/cliffs that i wanted to take pictures of. so i took a few (coming soon to another blog near you) and we moved on. i was talking the whole time with carrie because pete and micah were always ahead of us; as we were walking and talking, i realized that we were not going in the direction of my house (down) we were still going up. i asked what the deal was, and pete said he would like to go further. i finally complied after much complaint, and we went on a little further.

this pattern of continuing on, finding a cool picture spot, walking, realizing it is the "wrong" way, asking what the deal is, and continuing on happened up until we were half way between our house and 12th street. at which time we collectively decided to continue on until we reached 12th and mike could drive us back.

as we went on we kept getting higher, which means we would eventually have to go back down (easier than it sounds). we also blazed our own trail a couple of times, micah and pete found a cool cave with some really weird poop of some kind up on a ledge, we saw some crazy climbers at 9th street, and carrie twisted her already messed up ankle 3 "blocks" from our destination and continued on.

so, if you have a bit of spring fever, and the weather is right. i recommend hiking above ogden (the 12 and below numbers). also pete thinks it would make a pretty good mountain bike trail (the underlying reason we went all the way to 12th). so call us next time, we are pros now.

actual time went from around 3pm to 5pm. we covered an area of 22 "blocks" which pete thinks is only 3 miles. have a wonderful night/day whenever you read this.