Night 5/25
I had a choice of hike groups today. One was going over and one was going around. The over route looked impossible to me. It did not look like a hike but a climb with packs. One of our leaders explained, “it’s not as vertical as it looks”. Which became one of my favorite phrases from the trip. Because they ended up needing to rappel a lot more than they had planned. So, basically, it was pretty fucking vertical.
Our hike was pretty easy, it did seem long, but I think because we were not going that fast. I think if we could have gone my pace we would have knocked it out in a few hours. I remember being somewhat annoyed at our pace. Mostly because i don’t think mesa hiking is all that fun. It’s dusty, and dirtier than canyon hiking needs to be.
The weather was not good. It was our coldest day, it looked like it would rain. It did not. But Kim and I put up our megamid and it looked like a decent set up, like it could handle some rain. we even slept under it, I could see stars from underneath the bottom. That’s the thing about sleeping on top of the mesa, it’s flat and you get 180 degrees of clear beautiful star gazing.
I like that night. I loved seeing the stars peak in.
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