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Hiking Timp has been one of my life long goals/dreams. With living right at the bottom of it and have been running on all of the lower trails my whole life. I had always had the desire to hike this HUGE mountain I look at everyday of my life. I finally got the opportunity to hike up this wondrous mountain with some pretty amazing people. We all met at the Young's home at 4:30 am we said a prayer and we were off. We started our long journey. I was amazed the whole time. We are so blessed to have such an amazing place to live in. I could not believe the fact that I had not been using all of this to my advantage my whole life! It is so beautiful. While hiking up we not only had the entertainment of the beautiful scenery we had Brady and Cade talking about The Lord of the Rings the whole way up and down. They would reenact scenes and explain it all to us. It was very entertaining. Once we got to the very top my breath was taken away (literally haha). It was the most rewarding hike to see "on top of our little world"… We decided to take the most adventurous and dangerous way down. The glacier…. We all had garbage sacks that we wore like diapers and off we went down the glacier. As we all reached the bottom we realized that our bottoms and hands were ice burned. But it was so worth it :) The glacier ended at emerald lake. As tradition follows in their family, everyone must jump into the ice cold lake (except hayden…) So we all took our shoes off and dove into the lake. It takes your breath away!! But so worth the jump :) We then began the long journey to the bottom. That was the longest part for me. We could see the parking lot almost the whole time! Kim and I were so tired of walking so we ran the whole way down. The hike was beautiful and so much fun:) I can not wait to go up again. Anyone want to go?? Seriously I will go!!
