Hiking Table Rock

Well a few weekends ago we went on a hike to Table Rock. I have to say I wasn't expecting the kind of hike that it is, which is intense! It was 12 miles of craziness, but it was a very fun day. We left Rexburg at 5:30 in the morning and didn't get back until about 6:00 that night. We went with our bishop, the first counselor, and another couple from our ward. It was a ward activity but no one else was brave enough I guess, lol. It is an extremely difficult hike, straight uphill for 6 miles and by the time you get to go downhill your legs are so sore that it is painful to slow yourself down haha. We didn't actually make it to the top of table rock (which is 11,000 ft. high) because it started to snow when we got close. It was basically a blizzard, we could hardly see anything so we decided it was time to head back down. Luckily for me my husband is a hunter and knows what to bring on a mountain excursion so I was toasty warm and dry. The other sister with us was freezing I think so I'm grateful Anthony knows what he's doing. The bishop and his counselor were way far ahead of us and the other couple so they made it before the snow got bad. Even though it was exhausting, and that night I could barely move lol it was a really fun day. I got to spend it with Anthony who was really proud of me :) He said I would make a good pioneer woman, haha which was a compliment cause I was worried he was going to think I was a wimp. 

 

It was still dark when we started hiking.

 

We were maybe an hour in here.There was a really cool huge rock that looked over the trail so we had to stand on it and get a picture.

 

Tree lovers don't look, Anthony carved our initials into a tree!

It may be bad but I thought it was sweet :) The L on my initials is hard to see in the picture,

but I loved it. So sweet.

 

Here is part of the up hill portion. It was really steep I don't know that this picture shows that, but I was exhausted.

 

Just a pretty picture when we got to a clearing.

 

This was getting closer to the top, and behind me is a huge drop off.

Anthony enjoyed finding big rocks and throwing them over the edge.

 

The fog was pretty bad at the top.

 

This was the downhill portion. It was kinda steep, not as steep as the hike up, but our legs hurt so bad it was hard to not run/fall down the hill.

 

That was where we were, clear up there in all that fog. The top is up there too but we didn't get there.

 

And we saw a moose! Anthony was very excited, I was honestly a little nervous. I asked Anthony what I should do if we saw one and it charged at us and he told me to run around a tree. Not very helpful advice since I had no idea what that really meant and there would have been no time for clarification if the situation came up. I guess that's what happens when you're married to a man of few words lol.