driving the alpine loop: a big fail

Before coming back to Provo for our last semester, Ben and I made a bucket list. I was adamant that "driving the Alpine Loop in the Fall" be on there - in fact, it is the first one listed. I have heard from numerous friends and cousins how beautiful the fall leaves are, but for one reason or another, fall after fall I have failed to drive the Alpine Loop! This fall, our last fall, I made absolutely sure that we did not neglect this item on our bucket list. And we didn't . . . we just did it a little too late.

Take a look:

Nope. Not a single leaf!!!

. . .

I finally managed to take this single picture of some leaves on a tree. Only part of the tree is showing because the rest of the picture would be dead leaves. Ha!

Who would have thought, because this is what the trees look like down in Provo! I guess you just have to be smarter than the trees. :-/