Liking Mucho Hiking! A blog about our mucho hikes.

 🌇🌇🌇🌇 Sunset Peak. 4.1 miles. Elevation gain of 1358 ft. Date hiked: Oct. 24, 2020 Leti always has these hiking dreams that involve elevation gain and distance. Lots of elevation gain and distance. Sometimes these hikes can be a bit sketchy, so we bring someone else along to keep us mentally in the game. Which is how Rob ended up on this hike. We originally were supposed to do loop hike that included Mt. Baldy, Sugarloaf peak, etc. Well, we started on this trail and we got to a part that was quite sketchy. Letizia asked if we wanted to go on. We rated our desires on a scale of 1-10. Leti and I were at a 4. Rob was at a 5. So, we turned around and headed back down the mountain. This loop trail shares a trail with Sunset Peak, which is how we ended up at Sunset Peak. Four sunsets out of five here. It was so dead that I just couldn't give it five sunsets.  So, Sunset Peak is a friendly little trail. To get there, you walk through this meadow type stretch. Generally it is rather pr

 ⛰⛰⛰⛰ Picture from the top of Mt. Olympus. 8 miles. 4,192 feet of elevation gain. Date hiked: Oct. 31, 2020 Mount Olympus is an easily seen mountain peak on the Wasatch Front. I have no idea why I have lived in Utah so long an never hiked it. It was Letizia's first hike when she moved here. But, yesterday was my first adventure with Mount Olympus. I give it four out of five mountains. The trail was super rocky, which I did not love. And there were so many people on the trail, which I did not love. But, overall, it was a good end of year hike as my lungs knew they were alive, it was a new hike to me, and the view was pretty spectacular.  Even though we hiked this on Halloween, there wasn't anything too scary about this hike. There wasn't a time where I was looking over edges with steep drop offs. The foliage, for the most part, however, was dead so that was very Halloween like. But, it was Oct. 31st, so dead is to be expected. This trail was fairly steep. It started out less