Old Ephraim's Grave

This weekend I really wanted to go camping and hiking, but we ended up not being able to leave early enough on Friday to go. So Saturday Jeremy and I decided to take the 4-wheeler, which he says is now mine, and his new dirt bike out for a ride up the canyon. It's a little difficult that we don't have a trailer yet and they are both too big to fit together in Jeremy's truck, so we had to figure out how to get them both to the mountain.
First, we loaded the 4-wheeler and took it Blacksmiths Fork Canyon up left hand fork, which was only 12 miles from our house. Then we had to drive back and get the bike and take it there too. We need to buy a trailer soon

We rode up through Cache National Forrest and ended up in Logan Canyon. Our final stop was Ephraim's Grave. Old Ephraim is a bear that was as big and as tall (9 feet 11inches) as the monument we are sitting in front of. He was hunted and trapped by Nephi Bott in Aug 1923.
His skull is in a Smithsonian in D.C.

It was so green and luscious, you could totally see why bears would want to live here. Thank goodness we didn't see any. There were many wild flowers in bloom and streams running near by. It was beautiful.

Someone in the past must have known we were coming up to this spot someday and carved our initial in this tree for us.

We also went and saw Grey Cliff Spring. Our trip took about 5 hours. We were covered in dirt when we finished.