TIMPANOGOS (Timpooneke Trailhead) PR*! 3:24 Total (2:10 up / 1:14 down), 4,377 ft elevation gain. First summit of Timp this year (19th lifetime). Very surprised with a PR today--with an asterisks. * I cut nearly a mile off (usually around 14.1-2) cutting up through snowfields where the trail was covered and cut the trail in a few places glissading down. Didn't think I was saving any time on the way up but ended up only 3 min off my best time ascent. I may have saved a little time on the way down but wasn't really pushing it, in fact, I moved along but stopped to talk to hikers along the way. With about 2 miles to go I noticed I was making pretty good time and hit the jets taking 11 min off my best total time, and beating my best descent by 2 min. Enough about that. Not much snow for mid-June but still quite a bit on the trail in the usual spots. No dangerous snow-bridges or really sketchy areas but certainly sections with snow. Perfect day to be up in the mountains. Cold up top as usual. Quite a few day hikers on the trail, only a handful going to the summit. 
 
I"m always shocked with the bugs I see at altitude. Snow everywhere you look and then there's a grasshopper or box elder bug or spider and today 1,000's of lady bugs just of the summit (11,700 ft).  A few flowers pushing through the snow in the big meadow. 
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