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Thursday nights for me are like Christmas Eve. I have Friday and Saturday off from work which makes Friday my only day with some substantial time alone. Today’s time alone was spent on wheeler creek trail

To get to wheeler creek, you drive up ogden canyon turn onto old snow basin road and follow it up to the Art Nord trail head. Head northwest on the wheeler canyon trail till it splits. Just take the split and your on wheeler creek trail.
I would call this trail moderate, with the ability to give a real good workout and wonderful scenery. There are plenty of ‘cow trails’ that break off of the main trail, that provide a lot of opportunities to raise the adventure scale. If you stay as close to the creek as you can, you’ll find some dog friendly play holes like in the pic below.

This trail goes from wheeler creek trail, to icebox canyon, then let’s out in wheeler canyon. The highlight of the trail, I’m my opinion is the massive amount of wild grasses and flowers. There are stretches of the trail that made me feel as though I walked onto the set of The Sound of Music. I actually heard the beginning of the ‘Hills are alive’ more than once.

Although I didn’t run my GPS app on the hike, I feel confident in saying it’s not more than a couple miles before wheeler creek trail meets icebox canyon. In addition, if your heading up on a weekend you should really start from the Art nord trailhead, as the parking at wheeler canyon trail head looks a lot like a Walmart before Super Bowl sunday. Just with more Mtn bikes and dogs.

(Moe enjoying his 11th summer in The Cache national forest)
To close id like to introduce a scaling system. See, I’m 5 ft 9in and 311 pounds( that still hurts to type) so there’s not too many guys that are out there that look like me. I assume that if there are, they have the same sort of discomfort that I do being a Clydesdale and not a thoroughbred. That being said, I am going to rate the difficulty of the hikes based off of how many beers it took for my back to feel normal again. Wheeler creek is a two beer trail. One to rehydrate and one to take the sting out of a morning hike on a trail that is best suited to dog lovers or photographers, as this is not a high altitude thrill seeker kind of hike.
Till next time, cheers!

(Moose chillin like a villain on the drive home)