mt climber!!

The thing to do out here in CO when the mt’s aren’t covered in snow, is to climb them. I guess.  They even have a cute little nickname for the big ones: the fourteeners -or sometimes just the teeners.  These are the moutains that climb to 14,ooo feet and above.

I decided the other week that i wanted to climb one of these.  Pike’s Peak.  it’s a 12 mile hike and you climb 7000 feet.  When my mom was in town we took the cog rail up and they mention that there is a trail.  I decided I needed to climb it.  Plus, there are these xmas ornaments at the shop up top. I didn’t bring money with me the first time i went up, and i want one of them. well, two. I want one for me and i want to get my mom and her husband one for xmas. 

weird motivation for climbing 7000 feet, i know.  But it usually is the weird thins that get me going. 

i’ve started a list of things i need to throw in my hiking pack for this trek. apparently hiking a mt isn’t to be taken lightly. There are beas and mountain lions to start with. Not to mention altitude sickness.  and the weather can literally kill you when you get near the top and above tree line.  If one of the typical afternoon storms roll in before you get back down, you can get struck by lightening way too easily.  And, if you are sweaty or a light drizzle hit, you can die of hypothermia pretty quick.

I only know this because i was told to read about the hike before doing it.  Good and bad.  You can totally scare yourself out of something if you research too much. But i guess it is good to be prepared.  so, a list i have made.

Now, all i need to do is gather my equip and go…bright and early sat morning.  I’m a little nervous, but mostly excited.  and i hope to god i’m not one of thosejackasses that gets lost or injured or just gets too tired and can’t make it and needs ot be rescued.  watch the denver news.   if a helicopter has been dispatched sat to pike’s peak, that’ll be for me.

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