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Once we left the clearing, it wasn’t long before it started to get steep. Thankfully it leveled out pretty quickly after that, so it wasn’t a huge problem.

We were hiking at a pretty steady pace, which made me happy. We were still taking breaks, but it was more than twenty minutes between each break instead of the five minutes that it had been.

After an hour or so of the mostly level ground, it got really rocky and we started going up more. There were some huge boulders – bigger than me. I wasn’t having problems climbing over them though, which made me happy.

There were a lot of switchbacks, which was making it easier on all of us. We could tell that we were climbing quickly, but it didn’t feel like it. We were definitely up pretty high – my ears started popping not long after we hit the switchbacks.

I was hiking in the middle of the crew, glad to not be in the front. It was probably some of the easiest hiking we had done that whole day, and I was glad that there wasn’t any pressure on me. The entire day I had been the one holding everyone back, and actually keeping up was a great feeling.

“Oh my gosh you guys, I’m on the edge of a cliff!”

Everyone pushed forward, which probably wasn’t the best decision. 😀 The people in the front moved forward too, so they wouldn’t fall off the edge. We all started exclaiming about the view. It was absolutely gorgeous!

View from the trail on the way to Table Rock

The camera doesn’t do it justice. It was so much prettier than it looks in the pictures. I wish that I’d had a better camera. Someday I’m going to go back to Table Rock, and I’m going to take our good camera. Because it is so worth it.

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*Everything here is from my own memory and may not be correct. Outward Bound is not responsible for anything I post here. Thanks too NCOBS for letting me use their photos.*