I think the word "epic" has been so oft overused and bastardized in today's vernacular that the true scope of it's sentiment has been washed away over the past ten years, now meaning something more ironic and detrimental, a mockery of it's former grandeur.
But my hike up to King's Peak truly was epic in the antiquated sense, an adventure whose proportion and beauty I will never be able to capture in words, photos or video. I believe a long hike into the Uinta highlands, far above the treeline, is something that most people should try out before disparaging the state for its empty worthlessness.
The journey to King's has been one that I've been wanting to do for several years now, and I certainly underestimated the difficulty of the hike itself. With that said, I would and plan to do it again, hopefully with friends at my side, because the utter majesty of the entire trip is simply unimaginable until you're really there, just the same as seeing the Milky Way or a solar eclipse for your first time.
