Back in Utah and living with my lovely parents until I can save enough money to pay off my credit cards and move somewhere else. My parents and I took a drive up Payson canyon and went for a hike up to Red lake. It was really quite amazing. Makes me realize just how much I missed the mountains. Crazy there is still snow up in the mountains I guess Utah got a lot of snow while I was in PR.

Half way hiking up to Red Lake, I noticed something peering at me through the through the trees. I thought at first it was a tent, but as we got closer we found it was just two big blue tarps strung up against some trees. Apparently used for some sort of makeshift shelter.

Do people here do this often? I mean making a sweet shelter out of dead branches and two brand new blue tarps. Do normal people eat a couple chicken flavor Top Ramen (leaving about 10 unused packages and all the wrappers). Do they get all blitzed off of little baby sized Coronita’a (leaving all of the bottles) then run around chopping down trees (cutting near the base, leaving the top fallen down where ever it falls). I am assuming they used some of the trees to make a fire but then got a little carried away.

Since I have been home I have gotten many offers to go hiking, camp for the night then hike out. Now I know the way the locals do it.