My Happy Place
For supposedly being my favorite place in the Utah County Foothills, I don’t visit the Chris Fisher Flats meadow up above Grove and Battle Creek often enough. In fact, I realized it had been over a year. Wow. I think I’m done doing the Grove-Battle loop though. Coming down Battle has some no-fun rough spots…but some pretty spots. I can’t decide. Today I opted to go up and down Grove as I heard Battle was icy. It was just magnificent up top.
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I also refer to this meadow by the name of Chris Fisher flats. I have seen it on a map somewhere, but I cannot locate the map that gives it this name. I have seen Chris flat on some maps recently, but I’m wondering if you can help me locate the source that names this Chris Fisher flats.
I don’t know much. From digging around online, it appears he was a Danish settler in PG. Lived there around the turn of the century. I assume he owned land up there or ran sheep up there. There was a ton of sheep grazing up in those meadows – still remnants of watering holes and fencing if you know where to look.
I found it. Michael R. Kelsey refers to the flat by that name in, “Climbing and Exploring Utah’s Mt. Timpanogos,” though I didn’t see an explanation on the name in that text.
I did find the historical document that mentions his name in the “Little Denmark” settlement.