| Timpanogos Trip Report |
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June 18, 2007 - I hiked Timp this year with Craig. We started out with the intention to hike all the 11,000ft peaks on Timp. Our route was going to be a loop starting and ending at the Aspen Grove Trailhead. We made good time up to Emerald Lake. We made good time over to just below the saddle when we decided to keep our trajectory and aim for the ridge farther north. The farther north we went the farther away North Timp seemed to get. We eventually came to a point where we had to either get on the ridge or turn back so we slogged up to the ridge. Hiking on the ridge was much easier. (We should have gone to the saddle and hiked along the ridge as we originally planned.) But by this time both Craig and I were having issues with the left hip flexor. We hiked up to the end of the ridge before it drops down to the saddle on the way to North Timp. We decided that summiting North Timp would have to wait another day. We hiked back along the ridge passing over every peaklike hill on the way to the main Timp summit. This was probably my most enjoyable rest at the summit due to the fact that there were no other people up there (That's why we hiked on a Monday). We continued hiking over every peak until the saddle. From the saddle we looked up to South Timp and decided that South Timp would also have to wait another day. At this point I whipped out the little roll up sleds from my backpack and we had a blast sledding down the snowfield. Usually the hike down from Emerald Lake is pretty uneventful, but we mistakenly managed to get the adrenaline flowing. There were a few places where the trail crosses the water on snow bridges. On the way up they were frozen solid, but on the way down they were starting to turn to mush. I didn't feel comfortable crossing one of them so we decided to go down this little trail that ran along the water. I thought it would just meet up with the trail when it crossed back lower down. Soon the trail turned into bushwhacking, then major bushwhacking. Next thing I know we're grabbing onto plants and branches and dangling over the edge of a waterfall. Bushwhacking of this sort is probably easier if you don't have a backpack with danglies and hiking poles sticking out all over. Finally we met up with the trail again and continued on our way back to the car.
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