Hardest Hike of My Life

There are a lot of pictures in this post, but for a very good reason. I went on the hardest hike of my life this weekend and I don't want everyone else to have to go through that! If you look at the pictures in this post you will get a good idea of what it looked like without feeling like you are going to die with every step. I am not over exaggerating or anything. With every step my body was telling me that I needed to stop. I wanted to see the view from the top and if you know me at all you know that I don't give up once I have started something. The name of the hike is Twin Peaks. It is located up Big Cottonwood Canyon. Here are a few facts about the hike:  it is 10.7 miles long, we did half of the hike in snow where you take a half step because you slide in the snow everytime you step, the best part of the hike is sliding back on your butt because the snow is too hard to climb down, it took us 11.5 hours, it is straight up the whole time and it never levels out for you to take a break, you gain 5,000 feet from the start of the hike to the top of the peak, because you gain so many feet the look the the hike changes every hour of the hike, you can see all the way from Provo to Brigham City once you reach the top, and it is the highest peak in the Salt Lake Valley.

Our first stop by the waterfall.

The Beaver Dams

Good old "red hat" just chillin' and eating some lunch.

I thought this was the stopping point, but it kept going.
This is called The Ridge.

At the very top if you look close in the background you can see
the Great Salt Lake.

This is why it took us so long. We had to climb up
straight rock wall at the end of the hike to get to the top.

Showing off our wet bums.

Spencer scraped his leg on a rock while trying to slide on his butt. Ouch!