Murray's Hill Hike

On Memorial Day, we decided to explore Cache Valley a bit more and tackled a hike that we had never even thought to do before! We were just going to hike the MC on the mountain, but we'd heard that someone put up a "no trespassing" sign up on the part of the land that they own and often yell at people trying to hike it, so we decided to play it safe and hike Murray's Hill. Jeff's brother was in town visiting, so we dragged him along with us ;)

The weather had said that it was supposed to be slightly cloudy with no rain (hallelujah!), but that was not the case. When we were driving to the trailhead, there was a huge flash thunderstorm. Luckily, it passed before we got out of the car and continued with our hike. We got about 1/3 of the way before the clouds came back and started really pouring and hailing on us! We thought about turning around, but waited out the storm beneath some trees instead. 

When we got to the top, we were able to see over all of Cache Valley and it was so cool and beautiful. These pictures honestly don't do it justice! Of course, it started raining really hard on us at the very top, it was freezing, and Paige got really, really tired. We headed back down and the sun came out immediately. It was a whole "WHY MOTHER NATURE, WHY!?" situation, but it was still really fun and I would do it again in a heart beat. (Minus the excruciating pain in my hips and knees from carrying Paige the whole way. Let me repeat that. I carried her the whole way.) But enough about that! Here's some pictures of our fun day!

(To see better quality pictures, please click on the picture and then scroll through the rest. Blogger is unfortunately messing with the quality, but I'll get it fixed as soon as I can)