1 of 3 on 8/8/08: Bushwhacking behind Timp

I have always wanted to climb up on this large hill behind Mt. Timpanogos to take an early morning shot of the back side of the mountain. Well, since my clock was pretty jumbled because of jet lag, I woke up at 4:00. So I was like, "What should I do now?" Then I was like, "You know, I could make it up that one hill behind Timp before sunrise." So I packed up a few things, grabbed my headlamp, and headed out.

The hill ended up being about 1,000 feet of vertical (according to Google Earth), but it went by quickly. Photography conditions at the top were not ideal, but there was a ledge most of the way up that I had marked with a cairn. It didn't take much time to find it on the way down.

So here were some of my shots.

In the early morning hours, the aspens were just coming into view.
The bees were waking up from the flowers they had been sleeping on.
There was a lot of lichen-moss-fungus-mold stuff on the cliff rocks.
But the views of Mt. Timpanogos were the best of all.
By the way, the summit of Mt. Timpanogos is near the right side of the flat-topped rock toward the right of the frame.

The panorama view was nice, too.
The prominent peak at the right of the frame is the north peak of Timpanogos. And dropping off to the right (north) side of that peak is American Fork Canyon.

And by 8:07 a.m., it was already time to race off to outing number two for the day.