And I'm back

Explored Earth,

So, got back from the Mt. Rainier hiking trip today, much fun, I say. 6 of us ended up going, Me, Twinkle, Rotor, Solo, Freckles and Π (Pi). When we were at the site we ate awesome food (courtesy Freckles' awesometastic cooking skills), shared great stories, jokes and silliness around a much warm camp fire. The Ohanapecosh river was right behind our site so we had the soothing river noises all night long. What else...oh, we went to an ampitheatre performance about climbing Mt. Rainier (a slug guide). There was the "Bear in Tennis Shoes" camp song, so all of us camp types were the loudest repeaters and sang the words we knew (slightly different in times to what the Ranger sang) and then got peppy in the altogether singing section (if you know the song)...in short, the ranger wasn't much of an enthusiastic singer and we probably got strange looks from the rest of the audience. They didn't know we were camp counselors, and we didn't tell them, hehe.

Anyways, so Tuesday, we went out on our big hike, we did the Three Lakes Trail, which is a 12 mile round trip journey. We were dead convinced that it was more than 6 miles in because we were sure we were moving at more than 1.5 mph (took us 4 hours to make it all the way to the lakes). We had two groups, the fast pacers and the slow pacers. Twinkle, Rotor and I took the slower pace, it was a good saunter and we had lovely banter along the way. Finally made it only to discover that the lakes really weren't as spectacular as we thought they were going to be. They looked pretty big on the map, but they were merely ponds. They're also building a log cabin at the site as well...quite an undertaking really, they have a cast iron wood stove! Keep in mind that they are 6 miles from the nearest road. We believe they're using mules/horses to help bring out all the equipment and materials to build the place, but it would be somewhere worth living, really.


Because I'm using Photobucket to host these, I'm stuck to their sizing rules (oz.net ftp is being finicky right now)

Ahh, 4 hours of work for this...

That's where I want to live! All the amenities of home...

The second of three lakes, didn't feel like hiking to the third...

So anyways, yeah, that was an awesome hike. Today, we woke up, had breakfast and started to break camp to go our separate ways. Twinkle and I, since we carpooled, took the nice and easy way back making occasional stop offs for the view. Unfortunately, my camera sucks batteries and so I only got 6 photos on the entire trip and didn't get to take any of the mountain when it was out (cloudy/rainy the first two days).

All in all, it was an awesome trip. Great way to spend a few days...hope to do it again sometime next year...good bonding, really.

And now, bed. I'm pooped. It's a long drive.

~Me