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Oh, the rocks. I am going to remember those rocks for the rest of my life. The rocks from day four. A day that I will never forget, because of both the rocks and the thing that happened later that afternoon. (You have to wait to hear about that… :D)

It took us almost an hour to get to Shanty Springs. Luke was not that far behind me, and he kept asking me if we had passed the bad part, or if this was the bad part. It was never the bad part. He finally gave up guessing, just in time for the bad part to come. 😀

We took a break at Shanty Springs to decide which way we were going. I thought it was obvious, but I was too out of breath to talk and tell them that. 🙂 They spent awhile arguing about which way, when they should not have been arguing because really all they were arguing about was the reason that the same trail was the right trail. Not that I minded – I was just welcome for the break.

You know, I should have taken more breaks in those first couple of days. I realize now that I was just making it harder on myself. But I did not feel comfortable calling a red light for myself, especially if I was up in the front. Now, I was fine with calling a red light for someone else, but I hated calling one for myself. I don’t know why. In the end, it got to where I needed the breaks so badly that I called them anyway. I just wish I had been bold enough to call them in the beginning. It would have made it much easier on myself.

Once the rest of the crew had decided on the correct reason for the correct trail, it was time to move out again. The good feeling of that morning had pretty much disappeared, replaced by a weariness that I could not shake off. I don’t know what it was about hiking, but it made me want to just curl up in a ball and sleep for a week.

After about 20 minutes, the rocks got smaller, and smaller, and finally there was only the occasional rock in the trail. Then the trail started getting flatter, and flatter, until we were going almost completely flat!

A few minutes later, we got to see the face of Grandfather Mountain!

Can you see the face?

We stood around taking pictures for a while before we started hiking again. That was when the girls up front started singing. You should have heard us trying to figure out who knew what songs! The problem was, no one actually knew an entire song. So we would start singing and we would just hope that someone knew an entire verse, because if not we would just start mumbling. 😀

Well, I think the guys got tired of hearing Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and other popular songs… They retaliated with “The Wheels On The Bus”.

Their plan backfired when we just started singing with them. LOL!

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