Preparation began 3 days before the initial hike. Since Friday, my older brother planned to invite 2 of our cousins to join us on a hike. They agreed and planned to be ready first thing Monday morning. Originally, we planned to go to Little Black Mountain, but the weather conditions forced us to try Grandeur Peak instead. Early Monday morning, I woke up at 8:00 a.m. I, as usual, always do the Preparation. We got lots of Ice and stored it in the cooler. Along with it, went in 24, 10oz water bottles, and 6 Powerade bottles. This was barely enough for a group of 5 hikers. My older cousin, (name not to be included for unknown reasons) wanted us to buy healthy fresh fruit. Despite the fact that he did no force us to buy any, we bought 4 bags of Pringles, 1 bag of some kind of chips I don't remember, and 2 Nutrigrain Bars. He got real upset at the summit!!!!!!

Hikers:
Me (15 years old)
My older brother (19 years old)
My younger brother (9 years old)
My older cousin (18 years old)
My younger cousin (14 years old)
I will ask if they want their names put up later!!

Beginning the Hike

Church Fork Picnic Area - 10:45 a.m

We parked our car outside of the Picnic Area. As we got out, we filled up 4 Backpacks with food, and water. My younger brother (name no to be included for unknown reasons) didn't carry a backpack (lucky kid). As soon as we reached the Picnic Area entrance, my cousins started doing some exercises. Finally, after 5 minutes of some of the weirdest stretches I've ever seen, we continued on up the paved road until we reached the final waterfall. After spending a couple of minutes in the cool shade of the waterfall, we continued on.

He Approaches

The Hike

As we began the hike, we saw some machines building another trail or something. As we continued on, the trail was pretty shaded and cool.
As soon as we reached the Lower Switchbacks, the heat was on.
This was our so called "Beginning of the Journey." As we continued on
the trail kept on going at a moderate pace. Sometime before the Upper Switchbacks, we met and old lady. She told us up ahead on the trail was a dead moose. Unfortunately, for us, we didn't see a single glimpse of the moose. Later, we all forgot about the moose until we were relaxing in the car. After we reached the Upper Switchback, we found a nice Boulder Field to sit and rest. My cousins decided to "Scramble" a bit up the rocks and gave up a few feet later. As the trail went on, the views kept getting better. we could see the beautiful canyon below. As we continued on, we got our first glimpse of the Valley below. From here the trail was at it's steepest. We continued on and met a man who told us to be careful. He had spotted a Rattlesnake on the trail. We knew it was common to see rattlesnakes on this trail, but we didn't even see one. We continued on and finally after a while, made it to the Summit at 8,299 ft.

The summit

The summit is quite big compared to the higher Wasatch, but way too small compared to Mt. Wire.
The summit has an amazing view of the salt lake valley.
to the North, an amazing view of the foothills.
To the south, an amazing view of Mount Olympus, Lone Peak, Triangle peak, Wildcat Ridge Peaks, Mount Raymond, Gobblers Knob, and Thaynes Peak.
Finally, to the East, an amazing view of Millcreek Canyon, Mount Millvue, and Murdoch, Church Fork Peak, Mt Aire, and 2 Reservoirs.

On the summit, me, my brother, and my cousins only stood for 10 minutes and then we had to run back down. The main reason was that there were too many mosquitoes.

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