Timpanogos Cave

Last weekend we went to Utah for a family reunion.  Some of us stayed over until Monday to hike up to Timpanogos Caves.    Here we are getting ready to start.

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Starting up the trail….I was a pretty steep climb.  The hike is 1.5 miles and you climb 1175 ft.  You are at 6875 ft when you get to the caves.

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Here is Ryan and Shawna as we wait for our tour time.  They assign you tour times when you purchase you tickets at the bottom, they you have an hour and 1/2 to climb the mountain.IMG_0357

This is our tour guide, she was very entertaining.  You can see Steve and Shawna.

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This is what they call the “Heart of Timpanogos”.  It’s very large, you can’t get your arms around it.  I think it does look a lot like a heart.

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Some of the passages were very narrow.

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This is a view of the Valley from outside of the caves.  As you can see we were very high.  Beautiful!!!!! 

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I took tons of pictures, they are all posted on my photo gallery,  Click here to go to photo gallery

It was an incredible experience.

Love you All

~~Mitzi

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