We went with Chris, her 3 girls Alex, Randi and Sydney, and Uncle Calvin. It ended up being a great time! It took us quite a while to get up the Mountain, mostly because Calvin wasn't as prepared for the hike so he needed to take lots of breaks. But that was ok, we really enjoyed each other's company and had a great time. The top of Table Rock is totally breath taking and absolutely worth every effort to get there. The hike down is almost worse than going up simply because your feet really take a pounding. By the time we were about half way down the mountain I realized that I had lost my camera. I knew exactly where I had left it. I took it off my wrist to go to the bathroom and forgot to pick it back up. I was very discouraged because of my history with losing camera's. But because it was getting late and we were in danger of not making it down before dark we knew that we could not go back and get it. About that same time we made the decision to split off into groups, we had 1 flashlight and we knew that we wouldn't be able to see so Randi and I took off going as fast as we could to the bottom so that we could get there before dark, then Alex and Sydney came next. They went a bit slower because Alex had hurt her knee. They got down about 45 minutes after us. Then last came Chris and Calvin, they got down about 15 minutes later. It was pretty dark by then so it was a good thing that we split off.
It was a great experience and hope that I am able to hike it again soon.
(The best part of this story is that a few days later I got my camera mailed to me, someone had found it on the Mountain and luckily I had my name and address on it so she was kind enough to send it to me.)
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Touching the grand!
1 comment:
So beautiful! Makes me want to hike it again. So glad for a nice person to mail your camera back!
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