Albion Basin / Alta Campout

 Best campsite ever. We had to book this campout back in February and we just got to go in August. We didn't even get a friday night, only a Saturday and a Sunday night. So Ally has been asking for years to go and camp up at Alta where we ski in the winter. We finally got our acts together and made it happen. The area is beyond gorgeous. Wildflowers galore, mountain lakes and streams, beautiful mountains. The funnest part is that we already know the whole mountain. It was lots of fun to hike the trails that we usually ski on.

 I decided i could climb up this ski lift pole. Apparently it was a group effort. Somehow my kids were able to scale right up the thing, no trouble. I need more upper body strength. Sheesh!

 Thanks kids, I made it!

 Jason came with us so we had a built in photographer. Yea for family photos!

 The wildflowers are out of this world. So many different varieties and mass amounts of them. Not sure why my yard doesn't bloom like this is left to go wild. 

 Our whole group looking down at Lake Katherine. 1.9 miles to the north is Brighton Ski Resort.

 This sign was wearing a hat when we came upon it. We finished dressing it up a bit. 

 We found it. The northern edge of Alta. Hiking up these mountains is sure harder than skiing down them. I was having a hard time with my oxygen levels up there. Byron had no trouble at all. 

 Ski lift drama/hysteria began here. 

 For some reason it took the entire family to get me up onto anything. Yes, everyone please help mom. Feeling old.

 It makes me feel better than Byron also got a boost from Carter. It is higher than it looks. 

 So Jason had a plan to just swing on up there. Easy, right?

 Here he goes...

 Whiff...he was left hanging. Everyone had a good laugh.

 Down he goes for his second mount.

 And he's up...

 Looks like he made it....but

 Wait, what is this; a heart attack? No a "titty twister". He snagged his nipple on the way up and is dying in agony here. (It's okay to laugh-we have all laughed until we have cried at this photo.) Poor Jason!!!

 Here he is trying to recover.

 And, he's back. 

(Ally and the boys all got up without any help or assistance or injury.)

 Everyone was laughing hysterically when he told us what he injured on the way up. We are so loving and kind....we could hardly ask him if he was alright through all of our gut busting. Thankfully he was laughing with us. 

 Alls well that ends well. He was bruised up though. Anything for a good photo op.

 Indian Paintbrush in the foreground. Alta off in the distance.

 This is the Supreme lift that went right over our campsite. We can look down at pole 6 when we ski this winter and say hi to our campsite.

Ty collected flowers as we went hoping to turn them into some dyes like the Indians would have.