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We hiked out from the rocks ready to go on. The next part of our journey would bring us to one of the peaks of Grandfather Mountain!

It was pretty hard – there were some rocks that were over half as tall as me, so trying to get up those, (even with the trekking pole I borrowed from Maggie) was really hard. The others had a hard time with it, but they were also taller then me. I think that was what made it easier on them – the fact that their waist was always taller then the rock and half of the time their knees were too. The rocks were almost always over my knees for this part.

But I managed to get myself up there, and I was not slowing the crew down too much! That was always a bonus, when that happened. It did not happen that often, so when it did it made me really happy. 😀

We kept climbing, and soon enough it leveled out a bit more. Actually, I think it just seemed like that because there were no more of those big boulders. That made such a huge difference!

Just hiking, hiking and more hiking. Then all of a sudden, we were standing on a bunch of rocks at the edge of a cliff! My crewmates who were in the front shouted that we had reached the summit and everyone cheered. We were so happy to be there! We had finally made it!

View from Grandfather Mountain.

One of Grandfather Mountain’s other peaks.

Like I said before, the pictures don’t do it any justice. I wish I had brought a better camera – Colter got the better camera, and he broke it. LOL

We all just stood around and stared for a minute. Katie told us that we had to stay one body length away. Like, if someone were to lay down with his feet at the very edge, we had to stay past his head.

Someone asked if they had to stay their body length away from the edge, or my body length.

I don’t remember who it was, I just remember that I glared at that person for the next couple of hours, whenever they looked at me. 😀

Ok, not really. By then I knew that I was going to be teased about my height, and I had decided to mostly accept it. LOL

Then the girls decided that they were going to get a girls picture at the top of the mountain.

Left to right: Maggie, Sarah Margaret, Tullia, Jordan, Rebecca, Me.

In case you couldn’t tell, we could not decide whether we were doing silly faces or not. 😀 I’m not sure whose arm that is, and that is Luke’s head behind my elbow.

The beauty was unbelievable. I wish I could find the words to describe it, but I can’t. It was just so gorgeous – and I had thought that the view from the rocks before was amazing!

Jen told us that we had to get moving if we wanted to get to our campsite before dark. We reluctantly shouldered our packs and started move out. At least, we thought we were. Then someone remembered that someone was going to the bathroom down the trail we needed to take to get down the mountain.

We waited for a minute, and then whoever it was came back. (Just another detail I don’t remember. :)) We all stood back up and got ready to move down the trail. Then out of the blue Bobby asked me to take his picture at the summit. I guess he wanted a picture with just himself, and waited for everyone else to leave? I told him we had to hurry and pulled my camera out.

I put this picture in so you could see the trash bag, not because it was a great picture. 🙂 That was the smaller of the two bags. The majority of that trash came from the hole in the ground.

Bobby on the top of the mountain with the bag of trash in his hand.

Then Bobby and I started down the trail at a fast pace, trying to catch up to everyone else. It didn’t take long – when we caught up to them the rest of the crew was standing still, waiting to get over our next obstacle.

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