YAY KYLE!! (& Mount Olympus)

Ha! I know no one is sicking of me bragging about Kyle. . . but whats an older sister with a blog SUPPOSED to do!! :o) here are his pics from Ohio where they did awesome!! They are such sweet, nice boys- even after all the Ohio fans boo'ed them off the field, they still went back out and helped clean up garbage on the Jordan side!!
He also has a pic and a great paragraph about him at Scout.com!!

recruiting.scout.com/2/786376.html


So my awesome bro Kyle and the whole Jordan Football team was invited out to Ohio to take part in the Kirk Herbsteirt Challenge. Kirk Herbsteirt is one of the guys off ESPN and he was hosting a football challenge in his home state of Ohio, to my understanding I believe that all the Ohio high schools got to play an out-of-state team that had been invited. Well JHS was invited the end of last year and everyone was so excited. . . then Kyle hurt his knee and had to have surgery. Well my whole family has been stressing for him, "is he going to be ready to go to Ohio?"
Well everyone- we just listened to the Massillon from Canton, Ohio Vs. Jordan from Sandy, Utah game and WE WON!! 27 to 24! Field goal in the last five seconds to win the game!It was such a CLOSE game the whole time! I had anxiety the whole time! I can't even imagine my poor mom. :o) Kyle had an awesome game! The announcers mentioned him several times, gave his bio, and kept refering to the three bohemith guys on Jordans line (Kyle, Vincent Jones, and Tyler Larson)!!!! It was spectacular! He's such an awesome kid! I love him and I am so proud of the Jordan team especially since people thought they had no chance-that Utah high school football just isn't the same is Ohio football. Ha! Take that!!!


Oh yeah....Mount Olympus! This is one of the hardest hikes I have ever encountered in my 24 years of life!! Every year and every attempt I think "it won't be TOO hard this time- I've already hike it three times this year, I"m in some what decent shape" - oh no! It's hard everytime! But this is my tribute to Mount Olympus because it is absolutely gorgeous! My dad introduced me to this hike about 6 years ago and since then I have hiked it about 25-30 times. It never gets easier :o) Of the 30 times, I have probably only hiked the full 6 hours maybe 12 times, yep, 6 hours. It takes about 4 hours to hike to the top and 2-21/2 on the way back down! Crazy huh? And thats only getting to the shoulder of the mount, if you want to go to the very tip top, tack on another 45 mins to boulder your way to the top!
So today I dragged my good-sport man to Mount Olympus promising we'd only hike a couple hours and be home for the U game (Go Utes!). We got up early and hiked for around 3 hours and I have to say I really appreciate Mike coming on all these hikes with me (even though most of the time I think he REALLY doesn't want too), its just not as fun when you're by yourself. Thanks Mike! I Love You!

One thing I have inherited from my dad is I am a sucker for scenery shots. So today's hike was all about scenery pics, especially cuz after a half hour into it I was a sweaty mess. There's a pic to prove that at down further. :o)


These pictures don't really do justice about how pretty it is up there! You get going up the mountain and you can see ALL of Salt Lake Valley, it's amazing!!

This rocky part is usually my favorite because in the spring and later in the fall its filled with water coming from everywhere, little waterfalls coming down the sides of rocks and everything. But in the middle/end of summer, it dries up.


As for my completely energy filled dog, that my parents or I know what to do with, this hike completely wipes her out! She'll sleep the rest of the day and probably most of tomorrow!
I tried to show the trail that we followed up the side of the mountain, double click and I think you can totally see it!!