Looking down on creation

I was able to spend a fabulous few days in Utah last month. While there I stayed with Jill--she was a gracious host--and we did a lot of fun things. Saturday morning we woke up and hiked the Y. It had been about a year since I last hiked the Y and I definitely used the "I live at 1300 feet" excuse when I made us stop for drinks a few times along the way. While we hiked we tried to figure out how long the hike actually is with all its switchbacks and how high up we were. According to Wikipedia, Y Mountain stands a proud 8520 feet tall and the trail is 1.2 miles long. We stopped when we got the the Y, but there is no doubt in my mind--or my lungs--that I was higher than I'd been in a long time. Of course we took some pictures.

Here we are at highest point of our assent.This is me admiring my surname immortalized on the side of the mountain.
Here is Jill holding up the Law School. She totally rocks it there.
After our hike we were starving so we bought a 5 Buck Pizza and devoured it while watching Saved by the Bell.

I'll leave you with an interesting fact you may not know about the Y: No other college in the United States has a larger symbol, in fact, the Y is even larger than the letters used in the famous "Hollywood sign."