birdsday

So I turned 21.

That means I'm an adult.

My family rocks and they took me hot air ballooning.

It was an awesome birthday this year!

That one Labor Day

I love life.

Being back in Logan has been phenomenal.

What was extremely fun was Labor Day in Logan.

Corey had a fantastic idea of hiking up to Tony's Grove from Green Canyon. What did we know about this hike? It's "supposedly" a 15 mile hike, in the wilderness, and you get a sense of feeling lost. We were sold. So we packed a bunch of food, got the cars situated, and we were on our way. Where ever that was going to take us. This hike was the most gorgeous and fun thing I had ever done in Cache Valley. Parts of it were tricky and steep, it rained a bit, but besides that the weather was perfect and we had an amazing group. I was just so happy to be there.

Now, the feeling of being lost? We most definitely felt that. The trail would fizzle out or turn off into different points. But for the most part we did pretty good, from what we could tell. But at the end we weren't sure at all. It was getting dark, and Corey and I were getting worried because we thought we would have to camp over night. We get to a point where basically we could go left or right. One trail looking well traveled and the other one, not as much. We almost took the well traveled one, but we decided to go ask the guy we had seen a little bit ago camping. We were a little scared of him because we had said hello and he just looked at us... So some of us went back to ask him where we were. Our friend Stevie went to talk to him and all I could hear was "Speak no english". My heart sunk. But then Stevie whips out his amazing espanol skills. This man's name was Pablo and he was from Peru. As Stevie was talking to the man, we were intently listening. Stevie would laugh and we didn't know if it was a good thing or not. At the end, we shake hands with Pablo and say our sayonara's. We find out that Pablo is up there ranching 1,000 sheep. This man was amazing! Oh and the fact that we were only 20-30 minutes away from Tony's Grove. But if we had taken the well traveled road, it would have taken us into even more back country so thanks to good ol' Pablo, we found our way to our destination.

I felt so accomplished... and tired/starving. It was such a fantastic Labor Day. One of the greatest.

the Group

 

This map was provided by a couple of cowboys we happened to pass by. They were  mozying by on their horses and we thought we would ask them where to go. Luckily they let us take a picture of their map. When we told them we were headed to Tony's Grove, one laughed really hard while the other said that we were rather ambitious.
The green line represents what we hiked. Rough estimate of how it looked.