possibilities

 I forgot to post this before, and now we're well into summer: every spring, right after Alta closes, we sit on the tailgate of the truck and, by drawing names out of a figurative hat, pick a list of northern Utah hikes to do.  The theory is that this way, if the weekend rolls around and we want to do a hike, there's no dithering around trying to come up with one.  There's already a ready-made list!  

Of course, we haven't been hiking as much in northern Utah since we got Milton, as so much of the Wasatch Front is dog-prohibited watershed.  Plus we have really scaled back on weekend driving with high gas prices and higher traffic volume.  A couple years ago, we didn't do a single hike on the list; last year, I think we did a couple.  If you look closely at the 2025 list, we didn't pull any in Millcreek Canyon, which actually is dog-friendly.  And there's obviously ones we aren't going to do, like Superior.  But just in case, there's a ready-made list!