A WEEK OF GREATS!!!!
Great Team!!!!
First the Tour of Utah begins! We start with the Trek Red Truck Team staying at Grandma's house for the weekend. After driving for 9 hours, they wanted to go for a ride and stretch their legs. So Jamie, Kevin and I gave them a tour around the block for an hour. And guess what...I didn't get dropped. These guys were fabulous guests!

Great Cyclist's !!!
Some of the Yea of Utah families volunteered at the Tour of Utah. In the mornings we watched the athletes roll in, get ready and Jeff Louder, who loves his fans, signed autographs. It was exciting to watch the kids meet riders that they only hear about. Thank you all cyclists, who take the time to make a youth and adults day!!!

Great Feed Zones!
What fun! I manned Feed Zone 2 at both Stage 1 and Stage 2. Riders came through in a pretty big group at East Canyon, so we were able to get water bottles out, but there were guys in the middle that we couldn't get to. Sweat, Pain and Water! Then on Stage 2, they rode around Utah Lake and started climbing the Nebo loop. Our feed zone was up the hill about 4 miles so the riders were spread out and it took longer than 30 seconds for them to ride by. Another day of sweat, pain, water and today, altitude!

Great Calves!!!!
Kevin, Haedon and I were lucky enough to ride in Trek Red Truck's team car following Rob Britton. Speed, Hold my breath around the corners and Go, go, go!

Great Finish lines!!!
Every finish line is so exciting, no matter who crosses first! This is the last day at the Crits!

Great Yea of Utah kids!
Look at this great group of kids that wanted to ride 100 miles in 98 degree heat! We did a 58 mile loop back to the park and then some of them wanted to do another 40, but the heat was a killer on Saturday, so the second loop riders did about 20 more miles. Look out when these boys get a few years of riding and training in. They are going to be great cyclists!

Great Road Coaches and lines!!!
Without great road coaches and parents, who are awesome, this would be just another ride. But we had parents who sagged and parents who rode and encouraged kids and Nate who keeps us all smiling. Great way to end the summer. The kids have one more race. Go get em guys!

Great Food!!!!
After a 100 mile ride, there is nothing better than sitting around eating hamburgers, hot dogs, carne asada and salads. Also sharing stories, ride ideas and recipes!

What great memories!

Check this off the bucket list!

One of the things I have always wanted to do is to climb to the top of Mount Timpanogas! Put my head in the cloudless sky at 11,750 feet above sea level. It has taken a few years of "let's hike Timp" and I finally reached the summit! Friday July 31, Left Rodney's house about 7:00 and headed to the Timpanogee trailhead with Adam, Jamie, Rocket and I. On the trail about 7:30 p.m. We hiked about 3 miles up to what I call the ledges.

We spent the night under the stars and the almost full moon listening to the hundreds of hikers going up to the saddle in the moonlight. Have you ever noticed that when you are talking at night, the sound carries alot further, or is it that when you speak, because it is dark, you talk louder. Anyway, all you hikers and myself included, when you hike at night. There are people sleeping. Yes, Staci, Reeter is on the trail and way ahead of you! Keep hiking and "shut up". Sorry, had to put that in! As you can tell, we didn't get a lot of sleep! The trail at one point was a line of lights going up or down. On the other hand, it was amazing that so many people want to share our natural resources and hike this incredible hike.


8:00 a.m. Aug 1, on the trail. What a hike! Up and up and up. .



The wild flowers were in full bloom and we had fields of red, white and blue of flowers.



First you come to the saddle and can look down the trail, to the north east, or over to Emerald Lake and the glacier, east, or all of Utah County, west. The saddle is probably 50 feet wide and I didn't feel as dizzy as I did at the top.


To get to the top, you have to zig zag up the rock. Look down and it drops 1000's of feet. Then sit on the top, which is only about 10 feet wide but felt like 1 foot wide. Here I was dizzy, either altitude, adreneline, hungry, tired or just glad to be there. But what a view! And I did it! Now some of you may read this post and think no big deal, but it took many years of trying to get someone to hike this with me. Either the timing was wrong or I was asking the wrong people. SO-THANKYOU!!!! Jamie, Adam and Rocket. We did it! We lived!

Now, which way do we want to go down? Back the way we came, or slide down the glacier? Did you see how steep that glacier is, but we are here and we needed the full Timp experience. I would have been disappointed if we had gone back the way we came. So off to slide the glacier. A mountain goat was standing at the bottom of the trail where the glacier starts. It was a good sign!

Adam, is ready! Rock stabilizers in hand, GRRRRRR!
Rocket is preparing for a speedy descent!

If my feet hadn't slipped out from under me, I would still be up there, talking myself into letting go!

What a day!