Hiking and Climbing Utah's Mt. Timpanogos by Michael R. Kelsey
Here’s a description of the new 2nd Edition: This is a guide to Utah’s best-known mountain & mountain hike, Mt. Timpanogos. This book’s emphasis is on hiking and climbing to the mountains dozen or so peaks, and to the 7 high cirque basins. For this 2nd Edition, the author spent about 14 months re-climbing almost all peaks in summer & winter; but the winter of 2018-19 was very snowy, and there weren’t many times when it was safe to climb with big time snow, and big avalanches! But in the process, he re-learned how to climb in winter–actually it was in the spring months–but it was winter up there! So this writers knowledge of winter climbing got pretty good after a few years absence. Other subjects are also covered. These include 2 chapters on the history of Provo and American Fork Canyons, Robert Redfords’ Timp Heaven, then Sundance Ski Resorts, hydroelectric power plants, the Heber Creeper–now the Heber Valley Railway, the former historic Annual Timp Hike, Timp Cave, 4 airplane crashes, hiking deaths and even murders on the mountain (Ted Bundy left one of his girls in American Fork Canyon!). Also, geology, Timp’s Rocky Mountain goats, and newly planted big horn sheep & wild turkeys are discussed.
Here’s a description of the new 2nd Edition: This is a guide to Utah’s best-known mountain & mountain hike, Mt. Timpanogos. This book’s emphasis is on hiking and climbing to the mountains dozen or so peaks, and to the 7 high cirque basins. For this 2nd Edition, the author spent about 14 months re-climbing almost all peaks in summer & winter; but the winter of 2018-19 was very snowy, and there weren’t many times when it was safe to climb with big time snow, and big avalanches! But in the process, he re-learned how to climb in winter–actually it was in the spring months–but it was winter up there! So this writers knowledge of winter climbing got pretty good after a few years absence. Other subjects are also covered. These include 2 chapters on the history of Provo and American Fork Canyons, Robert Redfords’ Timp Heaven, then Sundance Ski Resorts, hydroelectric power plants, the Heber Creeper–now the Heber Valley Railway, the former historic Annual Timp Hike, Timp Cave, 4 airplane crashes, hiking deaths and even murders on the mountain (Ted Bundy left one of his girls in American Fork Canyon!). Also, geology, Timp’s Rocky Mountain goats, and newly planted big horn sheep & wild turkeys are discussed.
Here’s a description of the new 2nd Edition: This is a guide to Utah’s best-known mountain & mountain hike, Mt. Timpanogos. This book’s emphasis is on hiking and climbing to the mountains dozen or so peaks, and to the 7 high cirque basins. For this 2nd Edition, the author spent about 14 months re-climbing almost all peaks in summer & winter; but the winter of 2018-19 was very snowy, and there weren’t many times when it was safe to climb with big time snow, and big avalanches! But in the process, he re-learned how to climb in winter–actually it was in the spring months–but it was winter up there! So this writers knowledge of winter climbing got pretty good after a few years absence. Other subjects are also covered. These include 2 chapters on the history of Provo and American Fork Canyons, Robert Redfords’ Timp Heaven, then Sundance Ski Resorts, hydroelectric power plants, the Heber Creeper–now the Heber Valley Railway, the former historic Annual Timp Hike, Timp Cave, 4 airplane crashes, hiking deaths and even murders on the mountain (Ted Bundy left one of his girls in American Fork Canyon!). Also, geology, Timp’s Rocky Mountain goats, and newly planted big horn sheep & wild turkeys are discussed.