A night at the Yurt

 

At the beginning of the week me, Andrew, his cousin Sami, and our dog Gus spent a night at a Yurt in the Uintas.  We rented some cross country skis and skied into the Yurt.  It was my first time cross country skiing and I LOVED IT!!  It’s a great work out and really fun!

Here we are getting our gear ready for the trip.  We had to carry everything in that we needed, so we brought our backpacking backpacks. 

It was pretty cold when we started out, but after about ten minutes of skiing we were hot so we had to take off our coats.  The scenery was beautiful on our way to the Yurt!  We saw a golden eagle on the way, we were all pretty excited to see that!

This was at the start of our trip.  There wasn’t a lot of snow at the beginning and we had to dodge some rocks, but once we got higher there was plenty of snow and the trail was groomed really nice!

It took me a little bit to figure out how to cross country ski.  Sami on the other hand was a pro!  She did great and her backpack was heavy!

Andrew and Gus.  Andrew was always ahead of us.  I finally got him to slow down so I could take a picture of him!  On the trail there was a really steep hill and Andrew went down it fast, but some hikers were blocking the bridge so he completely wiped out so he wouldn’t run them over hahaha it was so funny!!! 

This just shows you how fast Andrew is at skiing!  I thought we were keeping a good pace, but he’s a maniac haha.  It was SO pretty and peaceful up there!! The sky was so clear we didn’t want to come back to Utah County the next day.  

Takin’ a little breather on this cool log…Gus jumped right up on it!

We all fell our fair share of times and it hurt! haha But Gus was right there to make sure we were all right.  He’s such a good dog. 

Here’s the sign that let us know we were close to the Yurt!  

Here we are at the East Fork Yurt!!  It was really nice inside and there was a lot of room.  They had a wood pile outside.  Andrew chopped us some wood that would fit in the wood stove.

Inside the Yurt…it was really roomy and had a cute little table and bunk beds for us. 

Here’s the bunk beds.  They were actually pretty comfortable and the pads they had were nice, but we still put our thermarest ones under the ones they supplied. 

We survived the night!!  We piled the stove with wood right before we went to sleep to keep us warm at night, but it didn’t last the whole night so the morning was a little cold.  Once the sun came up it was really warm though.  We had to melt snow and boil it for water which was really fun. 

We’re ready to head out…we will definitely be going to a Yurt again!  It was a lot of fun and they keep the Yurts nice and clean.  The only downfall was that the outhouse was like thirty yards from the Yurt, so it got pretty cold haha.

On our way out we fell a lot!  I think the snow was more icy than the day before.  We were almost to the truck, but Sami completely face planted it.  Her poles went flying in the air and her skis almost went over her head.  We couldn’t stop laughing!  Good thing she wasn’t hurt, but it was hilarious!