Fishing the Provo River and Big Spring Hollow

Saturday morning we woke up at the crack of dawn (literally...6 am!) to fish the Provo River. We met Lorin, Bridgette, and Brent up there. It was a "first time" experience for many reasons: 1. First time wearing waders, 2. first time trying to shove a foot the sign of a football into a size 7 tennis shoe (thanks to the waders), 3. first time fishing waist deep in a river, 4. first time losing 3 lures in one fishing trip (snag after snag after snag!). I caught one fish, but it got off my line before I could get a picture. Dan caught three. These trout were much bigger than the fish I caught earlier on this year up Payson Canyon and down at Scofield, so reeling mine in was fun! Yes, I had fun...though it is not something I can see myself doing more than once a year.

Lorin with his first catch, and very first cast of the day!

While my shoes felt five sizes too small, my wader were five sizes too big!

Later on we decided to take our first "off road" mountain bike ride. We found Big Spring Hollow trail, a "must see classic" according to utahmountainbiking.com, and decided to give it a try. It was a short ride, about 4 miles is all, but man, for a beginner like me that was enough! It is steady climb the whole way up. At one point I was walking my bike up the trail. The way down was a bit scary at first. I was flying without even touching my pedals, and it took me a minute to get used to the rocky trail, but once I did I had a blast! Riding down hill is quite the adrenaline rush, the feeling is almost addicting...now I am not an adrenaline junkie or anything, but I can't wait for the next ride! It took us about an hour to get up (mostly because I wanted to take so many pictures, but okay, if I'm being honest, taking pictures was my excuse to take a breather lol) and only 20 minutes (at the most) to get down. The scenery was amazing! It truly was a "must see." The leaves have started changing colors, and you ride over several wooden bridges that cross over Big Spring Creek; all of which made for awesome pictures, and if there's one thing I love, it's pictures!

a beautiful meadow

I was praying for a 4-wheeler, a horse, really anything that would carry me up the mountain lol

The fun part! Flying down the trail

Once we got back down we took a short nap on the grass.