Meghan and Corey have been telling us for some time they want to hike to Silver Lake with us (up American Fork Canyon). They said it is one of their favorite hikes due to the beautiful surroundings.
Well, it was finally time to take them up on this offer, and they were not kidding! It is one of the prettiest hikes we've done - going through forests, birch trees, meadows, and rocks. You get them all with this 2.5 mile each way hike, gaining about 1450 feet during the hike. It easily is one of our favorites now too!
Trail starts off in a lush surrounding
Of course, Hannah gives her best face
A view about half way up
There are a few steams to cross
Getting close!
We made it! The lake isn't that big, but it is very pretty in a bowl surrounded by the rock mountains.
Looking down into the valley
Water coming out of the lake to feed the steams
I love this photo of all the birch trees the trail goes through
Of course you know in Utah, we get an extra holiday on July 24, as that's the day the Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley, so it's called Pioneer day and many businesses are closed, as it's a State holiday.
We started our 24th of July weekend on Friday evening by "winning" tickets to go watch the live taping of Studio C. Studio C is a live sketch show filmed at BYU TV on campus and is very very popular. You can subscribe to their YouTube channel - they have over one million subscribers.
They have a lottery to get tickets to the live tapings, and tens of thousands enter. I've been entering each time they have it, and we finally got picked.
The studio seats only 200 and it was about a 2 hour taping for two 30 minute shows. It was very interesting and very fun!
Saturday morning, we headed to Corey's hometown of Huntsville and had a BBQ with Meghan & Cory, Matt & Marissa, and Corey's parents. They live about 2 miles from Pineview Reservoir, a popular boating lake, and luck would have it, they also have a boat! We spent the morning boating and tubing, and then went to his parent's house for a very yummy BBQ.
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This first one has some very good airtime and they managed to stay on!
This one has some really good airtime, but they didn't manage to stay on and flipped!
After our visit, we headed back to Mapleton to go to Shelley's brother's house to watch the Mapleton fireworks, which are some of the best in the valley for Pioneer Day. It was a very fun filled day!
Who doesn't love to get up and close to hot air balloons?
An annual event every 4th of July in Provo, the Balloon Fest allows you to get as close as you possibly can to the balloons, except for actually being in the basket - which would be nice to do also!
There usually is about 15-20 balloons at the park, and you arrive around 6am to watch the balloons get ready to launch, and finally launch. You can walk around, see the different balloons, and be right up close to all of them. It doesn't sound very fun, but it is a lot of fun to see it all.
