Timpanooke Trail

Last night we all went to a movie, and it was kind of late when I got to bed, so I wasn't sure if I wanted to go on a hike in the morning. I set my alarm for 5:30 just in case, and since I had never hiked Timpanogos before, when my alarm went off, I forced myself out of bed and made the drive up American Fork canyon to the Timpanooke trail.

What an amazing place to hike. I can't believe that I've never hiked Timp before. As I'll describe later, there was still too much snow to make the summit, but that didn't matter. The hike was so pretty, that it was worth the effort. I talked with several people along the way, and they told me that the best time to do the hike is in August, when the upper meadow is covered in wildflowers. I can hardly wait to make this hike several times later this summer.

It doesn't take long to start seeing beautiful views along the way. The hike is much easier than Lone Peak, and there are lots of switchbacks so it's not terribly steep - in fact, this is a perfect mountain running trail. Here is a picture looking back down the trail, with Lone Peak in the distance.

Scout falls can be seen in the distance.

Here's a closer view.

This pictures was taken above Scout Falls.

Still making my way up towards Timpanogos meadow.

As is shown below, there is still a lot of snow in the meadow.
I actually had to hike up over some big snow fields before even reaching the meadow.

This picture below does not show it very well, but at this point I had actually hiked up quite high out of the meadow. This was the only section of the trail that was not covered by snow. I went a little further up the snow field, but no one else had gone higher, and some people with crampons had turned back, so I decided to end the hike before reaching the summit, and come back another time and enjoy the hike when there's less snow.

I'm crappy at the video narration, but here goes...

Timpanogos Hike from Patrick Davies on Vimeo.