On the way I did get some great photos of the Big Horn Sheep that live up there. What I have heard is they weren’t always there but brought in from Wyoming or maybe it was Montana but my point is they really don’t belong there, the ones on Nebo are gray not white like theses.

Mount Timpanogos is the second highest mountain in Utah’s Wasatch Range (second to Mount Nebo). Timpanogos rises to an elevation of 11,749 feet (3,582 m) above sea level in the Uinta National Forest (now part of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest). With 5,269 feet of topographic prominence, Timpanogos is the 47th-most prominent mountain in the contiguous United States.

The mountain towers over Utah Valley, including the cities of Lehi, Provo, Orem, Pleasant Grove, American Fork, Lindon and others. The exposed portion of the mountain is made up entirely of limestone and dolomite from the Pennsylvanian period, and is about 300 million years old. Heavy winter snowfall is characteristic of this portion of the Wasatch Range, and avalanche activity is common in winter and spring.

The word Timpanogos comes from the Timpanogots Ute tribe who lived in the surrounding valleys from A.D. 1400. The name translates as rock (tumpi-), and water mouth or canyon (panogos).

Today I took a late MTB ride out at Lambert Park with Sam, we only had about 45 min till it was lights out so we headed down Rodeo. About 2 min in I noticed she was right on the trail of a chicken, there were feathers everywhere. I stopped her before she hurt it but as we got moving again she got right back on it. So I rode her butt right back to the car scolding her the entire way and left her sitting in the car while I went back out and finished the sun.

On the ride my back brakes failed so I need to get the bike into the shop and get them fixed, that’s ok I have a plane to run to the summit of Timp this week and need to push myself to the 14 mile mark.