Letters E & F were travel-related posts and today is, too, but then I promise to move on to some other interesting part of my life. The thing is, I live next door to a huge white mountain "G" and am taking a shortcut today by grabbing a post from my Utah travel blog to share with you here....
The Pleasant Grove "G"
The Pleasant Grove "G" has been an important landmark for our family. As a marker for home, we can point to it from across the valley when our little one asks how much longer until we get home. He knows the closer we get to that letter on the mountain, the sooner we'll be home. Along with the BYU "Y", the "G" has also served as an educational tool. When Word World was teaching him his letters, our little one started spotting them from the freeway and hollering them out proudly. And most recently, the giant white letter has turned into a fun game of "I Can See a G" as it moves behinds trees and buildings before reappearing a few moments later.
We have intended to make a trek to the "G" several times. The lack of clearly defined trail always dissuaded us, and once we discovered the much easier and well-marked BattleCreek Falls trail leaving from the same parking lot, the "G" was pretty much off our radar. Finally this summer the giant "G" called us so scouted out a route to take us all the way there. We left our excuses in the car and struck out on a trail that kinda sorta looked it was the right way to go.
The first part of the trail is really steep. Our little one kept telling us it was "pretty steep," but he kept on trekking.
It's interesting to get up close to a mammoth wild consonant. On the way up we each took a guess what it would be made of-wood, rocks, concrete. It's actually made with long strips of white-washed metal, and coming into full close-up view our little informed us we were all wrong....it's made out of chairs. He could be right-if you think of the nylon weaving of a lawn chair painted white and giganticized, that is what the "G" is made of.
We spent the rest of our time there having lunch in the center of the oversized capital letter. It is beautiful to get above your regular life-all the traffic, the stores, and the noise; to look across the valley and realize how big Utah Lake really is, how intricately the roads are interlaced, how many reservoirs there are, and where all the dirt trails go. The opportunity to take it all in made the trip worth it, no matter the difficulty we had in getting there.
Come visit me! We'll take a hike and you can see it for yourself!
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I've always wondered what those letters are made of!
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