I just had one question... how DO you celebrate Pioneer Day?
Well, my answer to that turned out to be a bike ride to Utah Lake with a good friend of mine, Ashley Jones, who you might remember from my random trip to Idaho with her.
Now, I think you could read some symbolism into the bike ride, like we were commemorating the westward movement of the Saints by riding west from Provo to Utah Lake, but we also went back, and besides we weren't thinking of that anyway :) And 12 miles is pretty incomparable to the 1300 they traveled.
Here's the Provo River roughly outlined in blue, courtesy of Google Maps. The trail runs right along side the river for most of the trail, so you can get an idea. You can even see BYU campus shaded on the right side of the picture for reference.
I think it's about 6 miles one way, making a total of 12 miles round-trip. What a great ride!
A view of Utah Lake at the end of the trail
Some other bikers we ran into at the end of the trail. I assume they were from BYU because several of them had BYU shirts on... lol.
And doesn't Ashley look gorgeous?
Intense bikers
Ashley's hair flipping skills
No hands!
No hands!
(I love the sky in this one)
No hands AND my eyes are closed..
now that's some skills
We figured it was really hard to get a picture of both of us riding together....
Hey, we finally got a pretty good one.
Look at that focus!
Goofy
She's so fast she's just a blur
The trail is so pretty <3
She was sticking her leg out but I go it too late.
She calls this a bum shot...
And a pretty shot of the Provo River
So, folks, that is how your celebrate Pioneer Day.
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