This past weekend, my parents and I completed a hike up a trail up Ogden Canyon called Birdsong Trail up Ogden Canyon. The name is beautiful, as is the trail. I would not say it is something amazing, but it does make for a nice nature walk. There are three ways to enter the trail: from 22nd Street, from the 20th Street Trailhead (the Bonneville Shoreline Trail), and from the Rainbow Gardens parking lot. We started from the Rainbow Gardens parking lot, but we ended up on 22nd Street at one point, so I guess we hiked a lot of the trail. This trail is easy. My guidebook says it is 1-2.3 miles round-trip, but we ended up walking almost 3 miles round-trip, according to our FitBits. Although it is not challenging, it is unique in the way that some of it is desert, with the sun blaring and cacti surrounding the path, and part of it is a meadow – very green and moist, with a tiny waterfall that falls into a very small stream. According to my guidebook, many birds can be spotted on this trail, although I do not recall seeing too many. I definitely heard them, though. To conclude this post, I just want to inform the world that I bought the memoir Wild by Cheryl Strayed over the weekend (thank you for the early birthday gift, Sara!). I have been addicted to it since I bought it Saturday afternoon. I will end with a quote from the memoir (I'll even do an APA citation for my students): |
“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course" (Strayed, 2012, p. 304).
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