Wellsville Hike

So, a couple Saturdays ago, we went hiking with Danny's sister's family, the Rodemacks. They live here in Logan so we see them quite often and they invited us to go on a hike with them in preparation for their hike up Mt. Saint Helen's in a few weeks. We agreed...that was our first mistake. :)

Before setting out on this trip, it was decided that their 18-month old son would come with us by way of a backpack harness thing. Kyle was the first to carry him and we got a mile in and reached Cold Water 'Lake'. This is the only body of water in the Wellsville Mountains, so we had to get a picture.

So, after this point, Danny takes the pack with Cannon and we trudge on for about another mile. At this point, Kyle is unable to keep going due to a brace he has that was hurting him. So he turns around and heads back down and me, Danny and Melissa decide to keep going. We figured we were about halfway there-ish. We had read that it was a little over 3 miles to the Wellsville Ridge and another mile or so to the Wellsville Cone. So we keep going...

and going...

and going...

and we finally make it to the top!

Here is the Cache Valley side:

And here is the Box Elder side:

Very pretty! Yeah...we stopped for lunch after a long while, and we talked about whether we should keep going. I was ready to give up, as was Melissa. Then, these guys were coming down the mountain and they told us that we were about 2/3 of the way to the ridge. At this point, I'm like, 'Are you kidding?! Only 2/3 of the way?? I was expecting at least 7/8...' But Danny convinced us to keep going. At this point, we kind of split up along the trail. Danny trudged on first, basically without stopping. I was about 5 minutes behind him, complaining out loud and yelling at the annoying bugs. And Melissa was another 5-10 minutes behind me. But I'm glad we all made it to the top, it was incredible!

As we were going up, we agreed among ourselves that there was NO WAY that Kyle/Cannon could have made it to the top. These are the steepest mountains in the world we are talking about here...There were steep parts, overgrown parts, rocky parts and non-path parts. On our way down, we decided to take some pictures of a couple of crazy parts of the trail.

Here, we have Melissa, Tarzan-ing it across this part of the trail. It's seriously not flat at all. If you don't use the tree branches, you would definitely fall. 

Here is Danny at the beginning of the overgrown part of the trail. At this point we take like, 5 steps each, I give the camera to Danny and he takes this picture of me (see if you can find me...I can't!)

I promise I'm in there somewhere. But this is what the trail looked like. I actually had to stop on the way up (I was leading) to try to find the trail because I couldn't find it through the overgrown stuff.

Here are a couple more pictures of our hike!

Okay, don't mind the highly unflattering legs, but I had to take a picture of this. I unwisely decided to wear pants that were capri length, thinking that I was smart because I wouldn't get as hot...but alas, I was wrong. I got scratched up pretty good! I am still trying to heal :P

Overall it was really fun and a good experience! I need to get in better shape, though, if Danny wants me to go on another hike ;)