Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Alpine Loop, Cascade Springs, Sundance

I've felt sick every time I've been a passenger on the Alpine Loop trail, so I did a little experiment today to see if I like it better when I'm the pilot. After ballet class, we headed south to Utah County and up American Fork Canyon.
We stopped here to see if we could miraculously get tickets for a cave tour right away. They said we could hike together, but one of us would have to do an earlier tour. I volunteered to send the kids in with the tour guide and no mom, but they didn't take me up on that, so we couldn't get in to the cave today. One of us promptly threw a crying fit on the floor of the visitor center and  one of us did not yell at the other one. We signed up for tickets for a very early hike on an upcoming very hot day, so check back for details on that.
 
 Next stop was Cascade Springs, which is a series of loopy trails and boardwalks around a pretty little spring. 
Jovie said "I want to watch the brown trout all day."

 
 
Video of Jovie and audio of Ikey. It seems like there is cursing, but there's a good explanation for that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNxOB20ZCY&feature=youtu.be
 
A guy at this stop was excited to show us a snake slithering through the grass. He chose the wrong family to share with because we do not want to see snakes. Jovie drenched herself with a water spigot just before this spot, but since it was hot, she dried out quickly.
The Alpine Loop is pretty! Come back in fall for the changing colors.
 
 We stopped for a late lunch at The Foundry Grill at Sundance. It was good and we used our best late-afternoon-on-the-first-day-of-summer-outdoor-restaurant manners.
 
It was a nice way to spend a day that was too hot at our house.

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