June 26 - Mormon trail + Mormon loop - (5 miles, ~1000 ft elevation gain)
This weekend I was accompanied by 2 budding hikers Madhavi and Shruti.
When my alarm rang at 4.30 AM this morning, as usual I had difficulty getting up but I was also feeling very bad for waking up Maddy and Shruti. But both of them were already up and getting ready to get out. I was impressed with there enthusiasm :)
Our initial plan was to hike mormon trail which is 2.5 miles RT. But when we came across the fork for mormon loop we took that, not knowing how long the loop was going to be. We kept walking and by the time we came back we had hiked for almost 5-5.5 miles. We came back to our cars by 8 AM, it had started to get warm by then and we were glad to be done.
The mormon loop is popular with bikers. It was fun to walk with maddy and shruti, when the trail was flat we were all very chatty :). Towards the end, maddy played some indian music from her cell phone.
Maddy was our leader thru out the hike. Though this was her first hike in USA, she was a pro.
Shruti - the self projected lazy gal did very well and is all excited about doing more hikes :). Way to go :). Her enthusiasm came as a very pleasant surprise :).
Overall it was a good workout with fun company.
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