Snowshoeing With Our New Toy

On the 24th we drove down to Rebecca's parents' house in Orem. After unloading the luggage, laundry, pet bird, presents, bedding, and food from the car we had lunch then headed out to Tibble Fork Resevoir to go snowshoeing. And even though it was a little early, we opened our Christmas gift to ourselves (a hiking GPS) to use on the trip. Now you all can see exactly where we hiked (within error limits of the device, of course). Right click Here and save the link then open it in Google Earth.

We had meant to go along the Silver Lake Flat trail but went the wrong way and just followed the main road. We didn't really need the snowshoes, but it was still very pretty.

Eventually we found a turn-off from the main road that was not already packed down from snowmobiles and actually got to make use of our snowshoes.

We're not sure what the road is for, but we came to a cabin at one point with some amazing views, and later we found an entrance to a mine.

By then, it was time to turn around, but since the sun was starting to set, we got some more beautiful views even though it was the same path we came up on. The small leg of trail down to the river was especially worth it.