#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

Alex Moliski

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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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holy shit

Storytime: my sister and I were woken up by strange meowing, almost screaming sounds. Very faint, they sounded like they could be either a baby screaming or cats yowling.

My sister knocks on my door and asked me if I could hear the screaming too. I said yes and she said that she was worried about our two cats because the screaming sounded like distressed cats.

I, like the older sibling I am, say let's go check it out and try and figure out what's going on. On the way out of the house, we find our first cat (Acorn). We leave, and the yowling takes us across the street to our neighbors house, who also has a cat. We live in a cul-de-sac so it's relatively well lit, but we can't see anything. No weird shadows, no cat figures, not even one running across the street.

The yowling sounds like it's right in front of us, and then it starts getting fainter and leads up back towards our house. We cross the street, and the yowling sounds like it's right in front of us again. And this isn't a constant yowling, but it's close enough that we can follow it. It starts leading up to our back yard. We go and start searching, calling out for our other cat (Lucia). Then it starts coming from up the hill near the fence. We live on a hill, and our backyard consists of three layers. Our first layer, with our house and our outdoor table, etc. Then the second layer is where our trampoline and tree swing are, then the third layer is basically mountain. Grass up to a waste high, weeds, remnants of a stone path my dad built a few years ago, and a treehouse that came with the property, and the Fence.

Now we live right beneath a water treatment plant.

Like two of these massive tanks of water plus a few buildings are the only thing between my house and the base of Mount Timpanogos and let me tell you, that plant is terrifying at night.

So my sister and I run back into the house to grab our shoes and some cat food, because that yowling that is right in our backyard sounds a lot like Lucia when she's in pain.

It's 1 in the morning. I'm in my pajamas with church flats and my wearable blanket, armed with meow mix cat food and my phone. And we start climbing the rocks to the fence.

It's somewhat light outside with light pollution and the water plant and our flashlights. The yowling stops as soon as we get to the top of the hill.

Lucia isn't answering our calls. Usually, she comes running up to me when I call her name outside.

We look behind the cement wall of our neighbors house, where there's about three feet of space and hidden about 15 feet away are eyes. Glowing in the dark from the flashlight. Cat eyes. The yowling starts again.

My sister and I carefully walk into the space. I go first because I'm better at handling cats, and there's another cat. Staring at us and growling. The first cat we saw looked like Lucia, if Lucia was a short-hair breed (she's long-haired, part maincoon). We walk further and another pair of eyes reflect in the lights.

There are three cats (each with collars, and I don't think anyone but us and my neighbors with one chubby orange cat have indoor/outdoor cats) sitting behind our neighbors yard, yowling their heads off from different parts of the property.

None of them are Lucia. I tell my sister to turn back around, once we get down from the hill we're going to find Lucia and make sure she's okay.

We get down into the house, lock all the doors, and we find Lucia safe and sound in my parents room. I go back to my room.

I haven't heard the yowling since. Like, at all. Not a single cat-related sound. It's been 45 minutes and I'm still shaking.

What the fuck did I find

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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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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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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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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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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.