Last Sunday's adventure.

We headed up Ogden Canyon to hike in Wheeler Canyon.  Altair's new hire Sarah also joined us.

We were next to the stream most of the hike.

Beautiful.

He kept getting in the water.

Skyler, Mommy, and Sarah.

Cliffs reminded us of Jones Hole Creek trail last October.

Remnants of a water wheel or power plant?

More tomorrow...

Union Pacific President's train.

We made the trip to the mainline yesterday morning to catch Lance Fritz' inspection train.

A guide to sandwiches.

From the 1960's.

Horses.

Skyler loves to pet the horses on walks.

He even fed them some grass.

Bike track is back!

We worked on it last Thursday so he could ride it again.

Nope!

Still no way to upload photos.

Grr...

Back to Blogger not being able to upload any photos!

Real or model?

Skyler took this picture of these two locomotives on Grandpa's layout on Monday morning.  Looks real!

Amazing!

Deer Creek part 3.

Pics out of order, yet again!

Dipping into the water on our way back.

Big storms brewing in the Uintas!  Want to go camping?

He was hot, so he dipped his hair into the water.

Another view of the railroad fill.

Blackhawk helicopter carrying a water bucket for fire fighting.

Just stepping in on the crushed rock ouchy beach.

It was nice and cool on the beach.

Deer Creek part 2.

Photos out of order, but whatever.

Original railroad culvert.

Pond.

Crushed rock beach.  Who does that?

Looking west towards the dam.

Lots of watercraft.

Almost looks like a model railroad!

Final part tomorrow.

Deere Creek/Provo Canyon trail.

We got an early start to beat the heat yesterday morning and drove up Provo canyon to Deer Creek dam to hike.

Start of the trail.

Dam spillway.

Mt. Timpanogos behind.

Musk thistle farm!

Nice geology.

Heber Valley Railroad tracks.

Mommy and Skyler headed to the crushed rock beach.

1925 date on the rails.

Part 2 tomorrow...

Some engineering.com games.

Skyler got the week off of summer school work last week.  We did find engineering.com and they have some excellent mind stimulating games.

He printed out the picture of his friend Abby all by himself using his iPad and the wireless computer a week ago.

Airport pathway.

Skyler and I ventured out to the airport Tuesday to walk along the trail that crosses the airport property.  At first, we got kinda skunked in we weren't seeing any planes land.  But on our return trip, we hit the jackpot!

Final approach.

So close!

Surplus canal was as still as a mill pond.

A field of oats.

We spotted the neighbor cutting his oat crop earlier this week.  It's nice having a rural scene so close to where we live.

He uses a sickle bar mower still!

Bingham mine overlook.

Last Friday we took my truck up Butterfield Canyon and made it to the 10,000 foot mine overlook.  A short, but steep hike was also accomplished.

(Pics not in order but at least they're there!)

Descending down the steep mountain.

Nice trees.

Ridge trail.

Climbing.

What's this?  Turns out it is a lightening detector.

A peek at the mine.

Of course the dog got too hot!

The mine is so deep now we can no longer see the bottom.

Lone pine.

More mine.

Looking southwest from the overlook.  The cable fencing is new since we were here last.

Weber final.

Lizard on the trestle!

Former well cars converted into maintenance of way cars.

Tiny container cars?

Train climbing the canyon, it was loud!