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\"Capillary
Capillary Calcium deposits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of natures wonders is right here in Utah County.\u00a0 Timpanogos Cave <\/a>is 1 of 3 caves in the world that has a particular kind of\u00a0 calcium formation.\u00a0 I went once when I was a kid, but hadn’t been back since.\u00a0 (From that trip the only thing I remember was being\u00a0scared, so my dad had me on his shoulders.\u00a0 And at one point in the cave his head got cut and required stitches.)<\/p>\n

We went on Thursday with June and her kids.\u00a0 (Dave stayed at the office to get some work done.) Fortunately the day was beautiful (in the 70’s) with a bit of cloud cover.\u00a0 I had no idea that the climb was going to be that steep!\u00a0 When I pointed out to the kids that we were going to be hiking THAT mountain to get to a cave I said, “But we’re not going to the very top”.\u00a0 True, we didn’t get to the very tippy-top, but we certainly got darn near close to the top!\u00a0\u00a0 I kept telling them over and over before we left, “You have to wear good, comfortable shoes.\u00a0 No cleats! And you HAVE to wear socks.”\u00a0<\/div>\n
\"Jacob
Jacob loves being outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a 1:00 tour appointment (when you are supposed to start hiking up).\u00a0 Me and my boys were late getting out the door because Benjamin couldn’t find his shoes.\u00a0 (The curse that is now mine since I always lost my shoes as a kid.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 June had already got the tickets and the instructions so she filled us in as we quickly got to the trailhead.\u00a0 It takes most people 1 and\u00a01\/2 hours to hike to the top.\u00a0 So we had to hike quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Taking
Taking a rest, but up against the rocks for safety!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But once we got started, it was quite the climb!!\u00a0 Extreme switchbacks.\u00a0 We had to stop and rest at every switchback plateau.\u00a0\u00a0 Jess (15)\u00a0kept saying over and over, “I hate switchbacks!” \u00a0I was constantly reminding my boys that they needed to stay away from the edge, and to always walk next to the rocks.\u00a0 (And NO throwing rocks either!)\u00a0 Samuel (3)\u00a0had a hard time remembering to stay away from the edge.\u00a0 Though there was always someone to remind him.\u00a0 Benjamin (5) was always right by my side (or hanging onto\u00a0 my diaper bag).\u00a0 Anthony and James were good troopers.\u00a0 And Jacob LOVED<\/strong> being outside and smiling at everybody that was coming down.\u00a0 The sling was great!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Jessica
Jessica keeping Samuel safe during the tour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It tooks us nearly 2 hours to get to the top.\u00a0(Just 1 1\/2 miles, but\u00a0very<\/em> steep.)\u00a0When we started the cave tour, we loved the cool 45\u00a0\u00a0degree (F) \u00a0temperature. But shortly into the tour Benjamin started to say, “I’m\u00a0freezing!”\u00a0 And within minutes Samuel said, “I’m scared!”\u00a0 Since I was holding Jacob in my sling, I couldn’t hold him too.\u00a0 Cousin Jessica held Samuel’s hand and stayed with him for the tour.\u00a0 The formations were so interesting, and our tour guide was a junior high school science teacher, so he really catered to the young kids in the group.\u00a0 While showing us the long calcuim formed tubes, he said, “See these? They are hollow in the middle, just like a straw. So if you were to break off one of those and drink some soda through it, it would completely dissolve, just like your teeth.”\u00a0\u00a0 I snickered and said, “Did you hear that boys?!”\u00a0 James wasn’t paying attention and said, “What? what’s so\u00a0funny?”\u00a0 So I had to quickly explain it.\u00a0\u00a0But it\u00a0was lost a bit in the retelling.\u00a0 I’m always telling\u00a0my boys\u00a0that soda is poison.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Halfway through the cave, a man came up to me and said, “This would be a great place to play some Baroque music.”\u00a0 It took me a few seconds to register, but it was James Rhodes.\u00a0 A professional\u00a0violist that just played a Utah Baroque Ensemble<\/a> gig with me\u00a0in April.\u00a0At the end of the tour he caught me up on his Chamber Music camp that he is holding for local students.<\/p>\n

Nearing the end of the tour Jacob had enough and was exhausted.\u00a0 He starting crying and I couldn’t console him.\u00a0 Fortunately we hurried out of the cave and I was able to nurse him to sleep on a bench.\u00a0 Then we began the descent.\u00a0\u00a0 (After explaining to the boys that they COULD NOT run down, complete with a story of a 3 year old boy that tripped and fell off the side and died.\u00a0 To which Anthony commented, “ouch”.)<\/p>\n

On the way back down June and her kids (along with Sam) quickly steamed ahead because they had to get to a\u00a0toilet.\u00a0 I took my sleeping baby Jacob (in\u00a0comfy sling),\u00a0James,\u00a0Anthony and Benjamin\u00a0at a bit of a slower pace.\u00a0 All the way down my boys asked, “tell me\u00a0a story of when you were a kid”.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a very good time to pass on childhood stories, mistakes that I made and learned from.\u00a0 We had a wonderful bonding time.<\/p>\n

The amount of energy kids has constantly amazes me.\u00a0 Samuel nearly immediately fell asleep on the 45 minute drive home, but he woke up when we got home, and was awake until 11:00pm.\u00a0 I was ready to go to sleep at 8:30, but the kids were just as wired as ever.\u00a0 At 10:30 I was reading stories to Anthony and I asked through my own bleary eyes, “Aren’t you tired at all from the hike?'”\u00a0 He looked at me like I was crazy, “No.”<\/p>\n

Three days later, my body is still a bit sore!\u00a0 The boys told a ranger, “if our dad came, he’d have a heart attack!”\u00a0 But that’s another story for another post.<\/p>\n

\"Anthony,
Anthony, James, Benjamin: "Cool!"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Now
Now that's weird looking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Anthony
Anthony thought this adventure was great!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The boys thought this looked like a dinosaur tooth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Benjamin
Benjamin standing in front of a huge slide formation. "That would be fun to go on!"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Savannah
Savannah and Jess, Samuel and James<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of natures wonders is right here in Utah County.\u00a0 Timpanogos Cave is 1 of 3 caves in the world that has a particular kind of\u00a0 calcium formation.\u00a0 I went once when I was a kid, but hadn’t been back since.\u00a0 (From that trip the only thing I remember was being\u00a0scared, so my dad had … Continue reading “Hiking Timpanogos Cave”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,12,14,13],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-hiking","tag-soda","tag-timpanogos-cave","tag-utah-baroque-ensemble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}