#Mount Timpanogos

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I Am Feeling So Great to be Back in the Mountains! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a mountainside and forest. This is at a roadside pullout along the Alpine Loop Scenic Backway in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. My thought on composing this image was to use the side of Mount Timpanogos and have that frame a setting for a look to the more distant peaks and ridges. I also felt that the different hues of yellows and greens in this forest added a layered look, leading a viewer further into the image.

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Mount Timpanogos, Wasatch Range, Utah County, Utah, USA

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Soldier Hollow

Mount Timpanogos

October 2023

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Mount Timpanogos, Utah. Photo by Heber Davis.

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If you go to utah, hike mount timpanogos. You can hike the mountain and go on a cave tour.

I’m not a hiking lady😂😂😂

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Mount Timpanogos, Utah (3000x4000) [OC]

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Big Views x Mount Timpanogos

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1, 2, 4 for the ask game?

Ooh! Thank you for indulging me :​]

I realised after I reblogged the ask game that almost all of what I’ve read recently has been research for my new big Mormon alternate history/fanfic project, so I’ll give you a Mormon thing and a non-Mormon thing for each :​p

1. What’s something you read recently and enjoyed?

For Mormon stuff, most of the books I’ve been reading are things I’ve read before, but I recently bought Jared Farmer’s On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (Harvard UP, 2010) and it’s so good. As much a history of a lake and a mountain as it is a history of the people who have come to live there, and even more so a history of the way that Americans—Mormons, Indians, and Gentiles alike—have used and conceived of the lands that they have built their homes on, Farmer does a fantastic job of situating Mormon Zionism both in its American and its particular Mormon contexts, and of showcasing the ways that mythology, history, folklore, and everyday life have come crashing together as the Mormons have made Utah into their national homeland and the Timpanogos have been wrenched from theirs.

For non-Mormon stuff, I’ve recently finished reading The Book of Abraham by Marek Halter (completely unrelated to the Mormon thing of the same name). Though at times it can be a bit of a bit of a who’s who of famous Europeans and pogroms, and the portrayal of women is lacking throughout (charitably, this is drawing on a general theme in Jewish and European historical chronicles, which also sideline women), I think it’s worth reading for the form alone. Drawing on all manner of epistolary, journalistic, biblical, and aggadaic styles, Halter follows the lives of generations upon generations of one Jewish family (after about 1600, his own) as they live their lives in various locales across Europe and SWANA between the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. Makes me want to read Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms again, since I think that’s one of the few books that might have the same vibes. Also going to read the sequel here soon.

2. What’s something you read recently and disliked?

Despite being, in my opinion, one of the seminal moments in Mormon history, and despite it being extremely well-documented, the Exodus to Utah is surprisingly poorly covered in the academic literature. That Richard Bennett’s duology We’ll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848 (Deseret Book, 1997) and Mormons at the Missouri, 1846–1852: “And Should We Die” (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987) is the best we’ve got is honestly a bit more a condemnation of the state of current Mormon scholarship than it is praise of Bennett’s work. That’s not to say that they’re bad, and I like the ideas at play—the establishment of legitimacy in the post-Martyrdom Church, the role of Religion™ in defining how Mormons went about finding their Promised Land, the practical mechanics of funding and moving several thousand people across a country—but the narrative, sourcing, numerical analysis, and Bennett’s writing style are fairly weak, and his analysis is lacking a certain breadth and depth as I would prefer for what ought to be the seminal work on the subject. Must be read alongside at least Lawrence Coates’ “Refugees Meet: The Mormons and Indians in Iowa” (BYU Studies Quarterly 21, no. 4, 1981) and something like Carol Madsen’s Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail (Deseret Book, 1997).

For general fiction, at the beginning of summer I read through the first couple books in the Expanse series, Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, and Abaddon’s Gate, and while I think they’re decently good and recommendable, I also couldn’t really get into them, I guess? My disappointment with how the books treat Mormons can be found elsewhere and is kinda pertinent to this; otherwise I just didn’t really vibe with the setting and didn’t particularly like the authors’ treatment of future religion and politics, tho I did enjoy the characters well enough, especially Holden. Don’t know if I’ll continue into the next arc, but I probably won’t for the time being, unless someone wants to convince me :​p

4. What are your top 3 comfort reads?

Mostly stuff I loved in my childhood. I think my main go-to is Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth, but I also love Jules Verne, especially Voyage au centre de la terre and Tour du monde en 80 jours, both of which never fail to cheer me up. My third, weird answer is Winthrop Sargeant’s eminent translation of the Bhagavad Gita, both for the content of the story itself and especially for Sargeant’s extensive glosses (each line is given in Devanagari, IAST, a word-for-word translation, and a prose translation, with an exhaustive concordance on each page giving the roots, inflectional information, and translations for each word in that page’s stanza. very fun for linguistics brain :​] ).

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First snow on Mount Timpanogos.

October 2, 2023.

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Ridges and Peaks of Mount Timpanogos by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along the Alpine Loop Drive with a view looking to the west to some distant ridges and peaks coming off Mount Timpanogos as part of the Central Wasatch Range.

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A part of Mount Timpanogos @timpanogos is tower spur, Elk Point @elk.point which towers over @sundanceresort 🏔️🍃🍂🍁☀️

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Mount Timpanogos, Utah, USA [4032 × 3024] [OC]

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Sundance Resort builds first hiking trail through its nature preserve

The Pahneekahvets Trail takes hikers through an area of the resort that was previously unaccessible. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls as seen from the Pahneekahvets Trail at the Sundance Ski Resort on Friday, June 9, 2023.   | June 10, 2023, 1:28 a.m. A special trail deserves a special name, or so the thinking goes at Sundance Resort. So when the first…

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Sundance Resort builds first hiking trail through its nature preserve

The Pahneekahvets Trail takes hikers through an area of the resort that was previously unaccessible. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls as seen from the Pahneekahvets Trail at the Sundance Ski Resort on Friday, June 9, 2023.   | June 10, 2023, 1:28 a.m. A special trail deserves a special name, or so the thinking goes at Sundance Resort. So when the first…

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Sundance Resort builds first hiking trail through its nature preserve

The Pahneekahvets Trail takes hikers through an area of the resort that was previously unaccessible. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls as seen from the Pahneekahvets Trail at the Sundance Ski Resort on Friday, June 9, 2023.   | June 10, 2023, 1:28 a.m. A special trail deserves a special name, or so the thinking goes at Sundance Resort. So when the first…

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My Mountain Castle in Utah by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Along the Alpine Loop Scenic Backway with a view looking to a nearby mountainside and then to a more distant peak. The setting is to the southwest in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. My thought on composing this image was to use the nearby mountainside with its ridges, spurs, and draws and use that to create a layered look for the mountain peak beyond. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.