Full moon Mt. Timponogos summit hike- 10/21/2010

Went for a hike yesterday to the summit of Mt. Timponogos to watch the sunset, and also to hike down under the full moon light.   The leaf colors down in the cirques were insane.   Timp is a rugged mountain, and doesn't come easily!   It ended up being a 14 mile round trip, 5000ft up and 5000ft down with the second half of the hike lit up only by moon light.  No need for headlamps!  The most action my legs have seen all summer!   Its crazy to think that only 6 months ago one leg was shattered and one knee blown, after that hike i must say things are healed up pretty good!

Josh Finbow on his way to the top.


A nice spot to rest the legs on the ridge, getting ready for the last push to the summit behind us


The views on top were nuts.  Here Josh and i are heading down from the little shack on the summit. The sun went down as the full moon came up, making it seem like day time on the way back down! Amazing view of the Wasatch up here, as well as salt lake city and orem way below.


Full moon was so bright!  About 6 miles and 4500ft down from here, onward march!  We got to the truck at 11:45- what a HIKE!
Ian, myself, Tommi, and fishbone taking it all in before descending...

-Photos by IAN PROVO-

Timponogos recon #2 October 14th. 09

After a long hike to cascade cirque a few days earlier on goat trails, Ian and i were anxious to get up to the snowfield, except following the right trail this time! This is a great hike. You start off waaay down at the valley floor, and climb up 4000+ feet to the snowfield. There was a good amount of snow up there, cant wait to go back with more ENERGY!!! Still have to make it to the summit on another day!

The sun heated things up quick, so i was hikin' in my overall's!

Beautiful view of the Provo Valley

Our play ground for the day- Timponogos snow field lookin' good for Oct14

Ian turning it out on the Snurf Board, possibly the 1st snurf decent down the timp snowfield??? You just never know!

My first turn's of the season on the snowboard... Always awkward but FUN!!!

Next time i go to Timp i'm getting to the summit, no questions!!! Energy is Key for this mountain... It is BIG

October 12th 2009- Hike to Cascade Cirque, Mt. Timponogos

Brother Ian and i wanted to get the legs fired up, so what better mountain to climb then Mt. Timponogos? You can start at the valley floor and climb 5ooo+ feet to the top, which is insane for utah. Our goal was to hit the summit, but we started off on the completely wrong trail which led us to the base of the waterfall at the bottom of cascade cirque instead! We were 2 miles in and the trail stopped! We had no choice but to bushwhack as far as we could go... We made it up to the gut of the cirque and boy, it was a work out! Check out the great views!

The start of the hike. Not knowing that the trail would end so soon, we kept trotting!

After about 3000 feet of scrambling and bushwhacking we made it to Cascade Cirque- Epic Views!

I brought the drum along for some extra weight in the pack to get those legs workin'... Sure worked!

Possibly the first drum session to go down in Cascade Cirque...?! The Billy goats seemed interested!

Check out this pack of gruff Billy's. Must have seen 20 different goats that day!

Loooong ways down into Provo valley, here we go!

This gruff Bill was hanging solo, protecting his crew

Where did the trail go? oh ya, there was none! Talk about BUSHwhacking!

We followed these crazy mule deer and billy goat trail's on the way up and down, Sometimes leading us in to some pretty dangerous terrain! Would have been impossible without em', but it was pretty sketch following those things!... Thanks to the Mulies' and Billies up at Timp! They are some rugged creatures!