Friday, June 18, 2004
Making my Mountains
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Hmmm... i had grand plans of making this blog interesting. But now... nothing. Not to mention that this keyboard is a weird shape, and it's taking twice as long to type...
Ooooh, i remember! I climbed Mount Mckay yesterday - it's not exactly the Rockies, but 1000 feet is as close as you get to a mountain anywhere around here. You pay $5 to drive halfway up the mountain to a lookout point, with a memorial thing, and some sort of site for a powwow (i'm sure there's some official name, but i'm not sure what it is). Then there's a little trail that climbs up around the back of the mountain, and goes all the way to the top, where it's just as flat as it looks. It was a beautiful view of the city and the lake, definitely worth the half-hour hike. We didn't see any bears (thankfully), the bugs only ate us a little, and i didn't even get sunburnt! All in all, tiring, but good fun.
See that dent in the otherwise round mountain? Where the trees are? That's where the trail is, we didn't actually have to climb up the cliff face.
We were actually hiking up the mountain because we're hoping to take our campers up it. Hike up the mountain, scare off the bears, run some team development activities at the top, eat a picnic lunch (a good ways away from the edges), could be interesting... i'll let you know if anyone dies ;)
Hmmm... i had grand plans of making this blog interesting. But now... nothing. Not to mention that this keyboard is a weird shape, and it's taking twice as long to type...
Ooooh, i remember! I climbed Mount Mckay yesterday - it's not exactly the Rockies, but 1000 feet is as close as you get to a mountain anywhere around here. You pay $5 to drive halfway up the mountain to a lookout point, with a memorial thing, and some sort of site for a powwow (i'm sure there's some official name, but i'm not sure what it is). Then there's a little trail that climbs up around the back of the mountain, and goes all the way to the top, where it's just as flat as it looks. It was a beautiful view of the city and the lake, definitely worth the half-hour hike. We didn't see any bears (thankfully), the bugs only ate us a little, and i didn't even get sunburnt! All in all, tiring, but good fun.
See that dent in the otherwise round mountain? Where the trees are? That's where the trail is, we didn't actually have to climb up the cliff face.
We were actually hiking up the mountain because we're hoping to take our campers up it. Hike up the mountain, scare off the bears, run some team development activities at the top, eat a picnic lunch (a good ways away from the edges), could be interesting... i'll let you know if anyone dies ;)
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