Otter Creek Reservoir

Beautiful Rainbow Trout...caught my limit in 1.5 hrs. 

Good campsite...we left no trace

Angling

Boy Scouts slept in and caught no fish!  

 Fish guts from cleaning my Rainbows

Got too windy to keep fishing...time to go home.

New Horses at the Ranch

Three new horses at the ranch...need names.

Eclipse Sunday

Ollie checks out the eclipse with Sextant

Timpanogos Cave / American Fork Canyon

Tibble Fork Canyon overnight with roasted corn on the cob

The hike up to Timpanogos Cave

 Feeling the weight of the world on the trail

In the cave

 The boys with our funny Park Ranger guide...classic

Goblin Valley

Little Wild Horse Canyon

 Most of the bunch

 Getting narrow

 Goblin Valley rock formations called hoodoos

 Rock playground

More hoodoos

On The Lake Again

 First trip of the season back on UT Lake

 There was less wind thus more fishing

Claire steered us home

Charlotte Christiansdatter Nielson

SHE'S HERE!!!

UT State Capitol

 Jane and Claire had a fieldtrip to tour the UT State Capitol

 Senate room

Naturally lighted basement floor

Skyline Drive Campout

First - dig a stairway up to the snow field.

Second - dig a cave to sleep in 

Third - try our skills on Igloo construction.

(AZ and NV building code compliant) 

Jason - arises from his "snow grave" sleep. 

Breakfast.

Sledding.

Carter and Kevin's impressive snow cave. 

Trent shows off his snow shoes.

Base Camp 

The wrecking crew 

Home

Ollie Learns to Ski

 About 1 hour before this photo was taken,

Ollie "hated" skiing. 

But, something finally clicked!

Now it's his favorite thing!

Keeping up with the sissies 

Three down, 1 1/2 to go.

Little Sahara - Sand Moutain

There's never enough wood in the morning.

But these guys don't seem to mind. 

The specs on Sand Mountain are the scouts,

tumbling down for a sand bath.

Wasatch Ski School Rendezvous

Enjoying the fire ring after our legs burned out. 

Ollie - taking care of business in the haunted forest.