Well, when you have a day off of school and most of your city is fasting for Ramadan, you naturally ask a couple of friends to go out and climb a mountain with you! We’ve had some pretty incredible weather here lately, highs in the 70s and lows in the upper 30s. The day of this climb was the best one yet. Me and a couple of buddies drove to the mountains about an hour and a half outside our city to take in the view of our province from 14,000 ft up.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking…
The highest peak in the middle was the one we were looking to conquer!
that small little town in the top of the picture is where we parked our van!
The peaks in the distance are over 16,000 ft… may have to make that my next challenge. To give you a little perspective, the highest peak in the continental US is Mt. Whitney which rises to 14,494 feet!
As we neared the top…spotted mountain lion tracks!!!
Also found what seemed to be a nice home for the lion 😉
In order to summit, we had to climb a snow bank. That’s me 🙂 Pretty tough without the proper gear!
Almost to the top…
In the end, we ended up stuck 100 ft. from the top. Kind of a bummer, but as you can see in the picture, we were going to have to do some serous rock climbing and without the proper shoes (or skill) it was safer to call it quits! If you follow the stream in the picture all the way down, the village where we started is just beyond that smaller mountain to the left.
In all, the hike took 7 hours and wore me out, but was so worth it. Not a bad way to spend a day!!!
nomadic texan 