NOTHING AND I MEAN NOTHING IS WORTH WAKING UP AT 3:30 FOR. If you read my posts you might have gathered I am not exact a moring person. I hate alarms and think the whole concept of choosing to wake up is stupid. Anyway today I did that wake up at 3:30. And it was not a situation where I could wait in bed for everyone else to get ready and then start myself. I dragged myself to the pile of clothes I had put out for myself just a few hours earlier before I went to sleep. I put on the shirt sweater and shorts then grabbed the rest if my things and followed my family to the car. We were on the road before four and started the 40ish minute drive to the trailhead. That’s right I woke up at 3:30 to go on a walk in the woods. Today we were doing much like yesterday two mountains so if yesterday we got to wake up at 6 why did we wake up so early today. Because those mountains were 14 teeners. For those of you who don’t know that is a mountain that is over 14,000 feet. I don’t know what makes them so great compared to a 13,000 foot mountain but, whatever. Today we were hike grays and Torries. It is a 8 and a half mile round trip hike. When we got to the parking lot we got out our headlights and coats then started going. The trail was very busy and VERY steep. I don’t actually remember a lot of about the first half of the way due to my half asleep state. We did not take to many breaks we took one after about every mile with a few others in-between to tie shoes, or that of or put on layers. We started the hike at 4:40ish and were at the top by 8:00 we went up about 3000 feet I am not super sure on any of the numbers but that sounds right to me. We did not stay at the top for long. We had another mountain to summit we went down a different way. We had to go down 500 feet and then up another 750 to the top of the other mountain we made it to the top of that one at about 9:30. We stayed up there long enough to get photos and relax for a bit then started going down. The last mile was hard because even though it was downhill I was so ready to be done. To make it harder I was not allowed to complain. Why you might ask because I was bribed. Once again my mom told me she would bribe me with anything I wanted to be in a good mood and take big steps today. I took a few minutes to choose my bribe but eventually decided on a gumball machine. To a big one but one that can go on my desk. And I was not about to risk loosening it. My plan for when it gets here is to spay pair it good then fill it with all white gumballs. I think it will match my room nicely! We did finish and I did have a good enough aditude and took big enough steps to earn the machine. We fished at around noon a bit after then drove an hour to Leadville. For lunch we got Mexican. Then we went to the hotel to relax. I got my own bed in the hotel. Zoe and I had a room to ourselves and it had four beds in it! I got three and zoe got one. I then went to a saloon with my parents and a sherly temple with 5 cherry. For dinner I got chicken wings!
🏔🏔😴 July 19
