It has been 10 years since I climbed up the rough trail to this location high in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. But even the grueling hike with a heavy pack is forgotten once you arrive below Sundial Peak and Lake Blanche.

Just before you arrive at the small lakes below the peaks in the background, you will walk near these large areas of polished bedrock with long lines gouged into the surface during the last Ice Age. Stone surfaces were smoothed by thousands of years of heavy and slow moving ice pack that carried rocks along that left marks in the direction of the flow.

It's so easy to concentrate on the the beautiful lakes reflecting mountain peaks at sunrise, but the etchings in the bedrock deserve your attention.