It may just look like a big ugly desert but from the top...its amazing!! This is on the top of Red Pine elevation 8,495. No, it's not the highest mountain in Utah, but hiking up it with a bunch of teenagers can still be quite the feat...
At the top we have bottles full of letters, mostly of past outbackians, expressing their feelings of their experiences. Its fun to read through them!!
There was an amazing view from the top! It was so cool!!
This picture was taken on my last week of work- on top of Indian- it was quite the long hike but way cool... the west side looks like a desert ocean... 
This picture is for Chaz... can you tell which state it is supposed to be?
One of the traditions at Outback is trail names.. They are given to you by a group once they get to know you. They generally choose a noun and an adjective that they feel describes you... I was given the name "Compassionate Sunflower" it was a great ceremony! After the ceremony they paint your face... The boys that gave me my name were trying to make me into a sunflower.... the yellow is the pedals, the line down my nose and my mouth is the stem, but than a boy decided to paint a heart on my check so it turned into half a sunflower!
This is a Boraground which means 'sacred ground'. It is a place of honor. This is the one I was given my token in- 'peace walker'. It is a circle with an opening pointing east- to the rising sun. (you can see indian- the mountain I peaked earlier in the background) The one where I received my trail name was awesome! It was made out of smaller rocks stacked high with a design made out of flowers in the middle- it was cool!
2 comments:
You have a blog??? I saw it when I was leaving a comment on Chaci's. I'll have to add it to ours. Hope you're having fun!
Hey, I have a blog now!!! I got your message. Phone tag sounds amazing!!! You should add a new post Miss Thing!!!
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