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confusing when i got married i had a whole new set of problems at least in my mind my wife s brother is related to me differently than my wife s sisters husbands does is seem like that to anyone else so from now on i will refer to my wife s brother as my sprother meaning spouse s brother likewise my wife s sisters will be my spisters my wife s sisters husbands will now be referred to as sibsprothers meaning spouse s sibling s spouses and my wife s brother s wife will be my sibspister all clear along the same lines i ve always seen a difference between the nieces and nephews that are the children of my siblings and those that are the children of my wife s siblings it always seems strange and a little disrespectful to distinguish between my nieces and nephews and hers so from now on my nieces and nephews will be known as nieces and nephews and my wife s nieces and nephews will be my spanieces and spanephews they can also refer to me as their spuncle and my nieces and nephews can call my wife their spaunt doesn t it seem like we should have had these words forever i look forward to accuracy and clarity in my familial relationships going forward and if this makes sense for you and your family pass it along so the world at least the english speakers can benefit from this simple yet long overdue set of definitions 2012 hiking summary posted by dan at sunday october 21 2012 0 comments it has been a great summer not only was i able to hike 15 times this year i also got a new job and we moved from tooele to riverton titan is a year older and so much more fun now that he can move around and communicate it was great to be able to take annie and titan on some of my hiking adventures this year and i have to thank them both for letting me get out of the house and hike all over the place i tried to plan the hikes at times when i wouldn t be missed but i m sure i still missed out on some time that i could have been with them i ve compiled a list of all my hikes along with links to the blog post about each one there are two hikes that annie blogged for us and one that was blogged by the ham radio group i hiked with i also added how many miles i hiked on each trip if you re a very quick adder you ll notice that i hiked a total of 98 34 miles this summer that s an average of 6 56 miles per hike not too bad really there s a really good chance i ll sneak in another hike this year just to get over 100 miles if i was ten miles short i wouldn t bother but 1 1 2 miles come on my friend tyler got me going this year and i really appreciate his enthusiasm and knowledge hopefully next year we ll be able to hike together more often we climbed frary peak together in march while we were still waiting for the snow to melt off the higher peaks frary peak 6 68mi after frary i wanted to hike somewhere flattish but long and somewhere that had already lost its snow dude hill was everything i wanted except it wasn t nearly as flat as i wanted dude hill 10 7mi in may i found myself in davis county a couple times with time to kill so i did a couple short hikes up the canyons up there hiking the baer creek and adams canyon trails baer creek 2 8mi adams canyon 4 12mi for memorial day we and everyone else in the valley hiked up bell s canyon it was great to have annie and titan with me on such a beautiful hike bell s canyon 3 6mi in june tyler and i got together again to hike up ben lomond i freaked out a little at the snow near the peak and turned back but still hiked nearly 15 miles without a single blister or one blister i don t remember ben lomond 14 62mi in july i went hiking with a group of ham radio operators who go out hiking every wednesday night it was a very different experience than my usual solo hiking they were great guys though and i hope to be able to hike with them a bit next year twin lakes pass 5 12mi as the snow melted off the higher peaks i started into my high elevation hikes starting with desolation peak desolation peak 9 6mi annie and titan joined me again for an exploratory evening hike to cecret lake in little cottonwood canyon we ll definitely be heading back there cecret lake 1 25mi back to big cottonwood canyon i hiked to the top of sunset peak above lakes mary martha and catherine sunset peak via mary martha catherine 8mi and followed it up with a hike to lakes blanche florence and lillian lake blanche 6 72mi in september i ventured up the aspen grove trail to emerald lake emerald lake 11 5mi i thought that emerald lake would be my last opportunity to get out hiking with fall coming on and the days getting so short but i was able to sneak in two after work hikes in october hiking back down in the dark mount wire 4 5mi big mountain 4 63mi to finish up the year i took annie and titan to the top of hidden peak okay so we didn t hike to the top we took the tram during snowbird s customer appreciation days food donation tram ticket but we still hiked 4 5 miles down from the top which still counts in fact i m more sore from our hidden peak hike than i was from the 14 mile ben lomond hike or the 10 mile emerald lake hike the 30 extra pounds probably had something to do with that hidden peak 4 5mi all in all it s been a great year nearly 100 miles hiked in 15 trips 3 of those with my whole family and others with good friends not only did i get physically stronger and gain more knowledge of the outdoors i learned a lot about myself and what i expect life to be bonus hike big mountain posted by dan at saturday october 20 2012 0 comments so i thought my hiking days were over for the year with winter darkness coming on fast but i was able to squeeze in one more hike last night i wanted to climb mount van cott directly behind the university of utah hospital but after driving around for a half hour i couldn t find a parking place that didn t require a permit i was a little bummed and more than a little frustrated fortunately i had a backup plan big mountain unfortunately even though i had a plan i didn t have details of the plan i like being prepared when i go out hiking most people would say i go out too prepared i like to have a track in my gps showing me exactly where the trail is i like to have examined the trail on google earth to see if there are any surprises and i like to know the specifics of the slope of the trail throughout the hike it s just easier to convince yourself to keep going if you know what s coming up around the next hill for anyone who doesn t know where big mountain is like i didn t it s right near big mountain pass if you don t know where big mountain pass is like i didn t it s about tennish miles up east canyon that canyon off to the left as you head up parley s canyon one really nice thing about this hike is that it starts at about 7400 so there s only a net elevation gain of about 1100 most of which comes in the first half mile it s really steep for the first little bit much steeper than i like trails to be but at the top of the climb it levels off and makes for some great hiking in a beautiful area in the picture above you can see the road winding its way up east canyon also at the top of the climb there are a ton of trees it would be nice to go through the area with the leaves still on the trees but walking on the fallen leaves was fun too this picture was taken right near where i had my encounter with 3 cows i hope they were cows on the way back because of my frustrating drive from one end of the u of u campus to the other i started hiking about an hour later than i would have liked i started hiking at 5 50pm knowing i only had about an hour before the sun set i ran up the trail as fast as i could in the picture below you can see the trail as it follows the ridge down the hill and back up around to the right as pretty as this area was in the fall it would be just as nice in the spring i ll be sure to come back about 2 miles in the trail started going around the side of the peak missing it entirely had i been prepared i would have known the trail didn t actually go to the peak it stays about 300 vertical feet below the west side of the peak as far as i could tell there wasn t actually a trail to get to the peak so i just climbed up the steep steep slope through the prickly bushes the whole last climb to the peak was littered with some sort of animal droppings it looked like a whole herd of something had recently been in the area then right near the top i looked to the right and saw at least 200 sheep they were all staring at me wondering who this weirdo was climbing up their mountain right at sunset i didn t think i was in much danger from them i ve never heard of a sheep stampede right as the sun dropped below the horizon i reached the top of the peak took a quick picture of the little stack of rocks at the top i guess it s to show where the peak is but it was pretty easy to determine where the peak was when i ran out of hill to climb and headed back down i would have liked to stay at the top for awhile but it was getting cold already and i had a quarter mile to go to get back to the actual trail i don t get nervous at all hiking in the dark when i m on the trail but it s a little scary to be that far off the trail in an unfamiliar area when the sun goes down i made it back to the trail switched my sunglasses for my headlight and ate an energy bar the hike back was pretty uneventful except for the encounter with the cows i was just walking along minding my own business when about a hundred feet ahead of me i saw what appeared to be a couple other hikers with dim headlights on as they got closer i realized they weren t headlights they were eyes there were three big cows right on the trail right at a point in the trail on a steep hillside where there are thick trees on both sides the funny thing about cows is they look pretty wimpy and ridiculous when they re just standing out in a field somewhere but when they re standing 50 feet away on a mountain in complete darkness and all you can see is their giant eyes staring back at you they re a bit intimidating especially when they start moving around and you feel the ground shake beneath them the snorting s a bit intimidating too i wasn t quite sure what to do we just kept staring at each other finally i told them in my best cow to get off the trail actually i just talked in english but they seemed to understand that just fine they moved about 20 feet below the trail in the trees and stared at me as i passed them it was a little freaky but probably not all that dangerous i m looking forward to seeing them again on my plate sometime in all it was a beautiful hike the trail is part of the great western trail and continues on for miles past the peak i d like to continue on the trail someday and see what else is out there i ended up hiking 4 63 miles and climbed nearly 1500 the trail does a lot of up and down i would recommend the trail to anyone racing the sunset mount wire red butte peak posted by dan at saturday october 06 2012 0 comments just when i thought i was done hiking for the year annie called me at work and let me know that i probably shouldn t come home tonight no not because we re fighting or anything like that but because she had her sisters and their kids over to play cards all evening so in an effort to keep myself sane i picked out a hike that i thought i could do before it got too dark and cold that left just a few options within easy driving distance of home red pine lake up little cottonwood canyon dog lake either one up big cottonwood canyon or mount wire up above the university of utah i didn t really feel like driving up any big canyons and instead decided to make the drive up to the university of utah apparently though there was an accident on the northbound freeway so i got stuck in some pretty heavy traffic i decided to get off at 9000 south but as i started exiting i noticed that traffic was flowing just fine from there on but it was too late to get back on so i made my way up to i 215 the long way that probably cost me fifteen minutes i arrived at the trailhead pretty easily after that it wasn t so much a trailhead as a small trail off the side of the road in research park but the coordinates were in my gps so it was pretty easy to find this was a hike i planned to do earlier this year when the higher peaks were still covered in snow mount wire is only 7100 or so so it s one of the first peaks available to climb in the spring in my rush to get out the door and beat the sunset i didn t have time to refresh my mind on the particulars of the trail i always like to have a clear idea of the terrain any trails branch off the main trail and the average slope of each section of the trail that would have been great information to know the trail started out pretty flat and even it even crossed a tiny little creek just a few hundred meters in after a bit it joined up with the bonneville shoreline trail what i would have known had i taken the time to refresh myself on the trail is that there are two trails that head up from the bonneville shoreline trail only about 50 apart the moral of the story choose the right trail i took the left the trail i took paralleled the right trail really close on the gps for quite awhile close enough that i thought it was possible the gps was giving me wrong information if you re in a deep canyon which i was it can put you a bit off where you actually are looking at the topography it looked like the trails would meet up in a bit and looking ahead it looked like i could see where both trails pushed up on top of the ridge between the two trails at one point i saw a trail that looked like it connected the two trails and followed it for quite awhile but it was steep downhill and i knew if it didn t connect to the other i d have to re climb all that elevation i would find out later that i was within about 50 feet of the trail when i turned back another 10 minutes lost finally after more than a mile of hiking my trail came to a sudden and abrupt end it just ended right there and the slopes all around me were steep very steep i saw a trail heading up to the right the direction i needed to go and saw two people coming down the real trail high up above at the top of the ridge about 200 up so my choice was to either backtrack a mile losing almost 1000 of elevation and preventing me from arriving at the peak before sunset or climb up the near vertical slope through scratchy bushes had i not seen the 2 guys on the real trail i probably would have just turned around but knowing that the trail was there and that the gps was right after all i climbed up the hill scratching my bare legs to pieces and splitting open a finger but i made it to the real trail and probably only lost ten minutes climbing through the bushes the trail the real trail was beautiful seriously i was so amazed at how pretty it was from the valley it looks like a bare ugly mountain but when you actually get on the mountain it s covered in trees which were 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