Bonanza Mines

I took this standing at the path looking up.
This part to the top took me the longest.

A couple of weeks ago I was stationed in Kennecott to work with a crew of interns to pull weeds. I decided to stay a day later and hike up the mountain to one of the three old copper mines. I started at about 8am on a beautiful sunny day. It took me roughly 3 hrs to hike the 4.5mile trail, I scaled roughly 3,800ft in elevation. But when I got to the top it was well worth the trip, I got to see an awesome view of the glacier and down the mountain. (I took a video of the view while I was up there, but for some reason my computer does not like the videos from my phone so you will have to settle with pictures.)

I stayed up in this little spot I found and just

looked at the amazing views for about an hour. The walk back down wasn’t so fun as the trail was steep the entire way which makes going down a lot slower, well going up it slower for that matter too. All in all I am super glad I stayed and went on this hike it was an awesome experience.

I found this guy at the very top just happy as a clam