Geocaching in Alpine

My dad came up for a visit the other week to spend some time before I ship myself off to the Orient. It was fun having him here enjoying our mild Utah winter. On this day, we were out in the Alpine City Trails area doing some geocaching.I'm pretty sure that knit beanie belonged to my great-grandmother. Love you dad!

Race T-Shirt Quilt

I've got well over 100 race shirts. Most of them hang, lonely and forlorn, in my closet. I'm now giving them a second life in the form of a race t-shirt quilt. I've chosen to make it the way our pioneer ancestors did, by hand. One stitch at a time. It's a long process, but surprisingly therapeutic. Plus, it helps me feel somewhat productive while I'm watching TV.

Park City Snowshoe Stomp 5K

I had a lot of fun over the weekend at the Park City Snowshoe Stomp 5K, even if there wasn't enough snow to warrant it's namesake's footwear. I had brought my Yak-Trax, but left them in the car and went with just trail shoes. Mostly locals turning out for this chilly race to benefit The Road Home.

The Rail Trail in the distance behind us

As unlikely as it sounds, I came in first place and received a nice medal. Terrific post race snacks aplenty too. Thanks for putting on a terrific race.

The race director made me do a #1 sign for the camera

Race Gear

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving in Arizona with the family. We had a group of 30+ this year, so we took over the chapel and pushed 6 tables together to form one giant table.

Saturday we went geocaching in the Lost Dutchman State Park. It's a really beautiful patch of desert with nice hiking trails.

Isaac found the first one. Superstition Mountains in the background.

Bit of an uphill climb to Green Rock.

Dave & Seth 

Rest stop

Valley view: Seth and Isaac jostled for leader

Another rest stop

Aubrey was proud of being the first to find this cache

Spencer taught the younger kids a lesson about respecting our cactus friends.

Rocky Point Beach

We had another friend reunion in Rocky Point last week. Since I took a lot of photos back in April, I mostly ignored my camera this trip. I went for a walk along the beach one afternoon and shot these.