Dave and Jan enjoyed a camping experience in the Beaver area the last week of August. Beaver is a small town along Interstate 15 around 50 miles north of Cedar City. The outing began with a stop at Beaver’s Creamery, a favorite stop for many travelers, where the Balsleys enjoyed a visit with Kay, former member of the First Baptist family in Cedar. Seven miles up Beaver Canyon there is a very nice Forest Service campground called Little Cotton Wood Campground which served as a base camp for the next two nights. After dinner the first night it was time for a hike from Little Reservoir to Posey Basin.

Though the sky was making some ominous thundering sounds it did not turn into rain – and the hike was beautified by the reassuring sign in the sky that no earth-changing flood was about to take place.

The next day it was time to head up Beaver Mountain for a longer hike. Beaver Mountain is the site of an expanding ski resort known as Eagle Point. Driving to what may be the highest point in the Eagle Point development (at around 10,500 feet of elevation) Dave and Jan headed higher into the Tushar Mountains. Their hike started out on a bike trail which traversed the slopes beneath one of the chair lifts.

Leaving the ski resort boundary, the trail headed upward toward what may have been Mt. Holly, one of several peaks in the Tushar mountains which exceed 12,000 feet in elevation.

The trail was bordered by many beautiful displays of mountain flowers to be enjoyed by hikers.

There were also some refreshing streams to enjoy – along with some of the mountain’s local residents.

It was a beautiful day and place for a hike, and Dave and Jan are so grateful to the Lord for the opportunities and the energy (at their increasing ages) and the resources to be able to enjoy the amazing beauty which surrounds them in southwest Utah – including the Tushar mountains near Beaver.