It's June! And We Love Hiking.

this time, the dogs came too.

and they needed a water break on the way up.

despite the look on annikki's face, she really does like hiking.

the view on the way down.

utah lake in front of the mountains.

i wore flip flops on this hike, and last week's. i'm now looking into good sandals for hiking. i like not wearing shoes and socks, but flip flops aren't the most stable footwear...

i've heard good things about chaco's and teva's.

any thoughts?

Sunday Hiking

A cloudy - but pretty - afternoon.

A waterfall.

A good day.




~ and I did it all in flip flops ~

Brilliant in Theory

While walking on the mountain on Wednesday I was thinking about how much I like being outside and also about how much I like to read and how sad it is that I couldn't do both at once.

Inspiration struck!

Audio books.

Sure that there were free ones online, I started searching. I came up with a few good possibilities, and settled on this one.

I downloaded Robinson Crusoe, loaded it onto my mp3 player, and away I went.

...


The reader has such a hard voice to pay attention to and it's difficult to make sense of what's happening. He makes it sound like the end of a sentence and then you find out it's not the end of the sentence by his next words. Example:

It reads: "She said she knew it would not be easy."

He reads: "She said she knew it. Would not be easy."

It's really frustrating.

I downloaded Emma too.

Maybe I'll try that for a bit and hope the reader is more exciting.

It bothered me enough to look into volunteering myself. I may not be the best reader, but I can tell when a sentence ends.

However, something I'm sincerely concerned about: For those of you who know my voice, tell me if it's the kind of voice that would get annoying and hard to listen to after a while. Please. I won't be offended (but please be gentle), and I don't want to give someone else the desire to poke their eyes out.

I Walked Up A Mountain - Again

I Walked Up A Mountain

After recently being inspired by reading this post in my friend's blog (it's an older post, but I had just discovered her blog), I kind of followed suit. I went on a hike yesterday. Kind of a spontaneous one. It wasn't long and it wasn't far from home (I walked through a neighborhood behind my house and found the trail head), but I did it. With my dog. And I loved it.

He enjoyed it too.

At one point I was worried about his being able to get down a steep climb on his own and couldn't decide if I should take him off the leash, or leave him on so I could try to catch him if he slipped. There were no cliffs around so I figured a fall wouldn't be too disastrous if it occurred, and I let him off the leash. No sooner done than he was already at the bottom.

He's quite the hiker.

And this was his first time.

We're going again.

Maybe tonight.