Hiking To The Tippy Top Of The Mountain

Remember when we were kids and we’d watch National Geographic or something on PBS that would be talking about animals and how the predators would always take down the babies in a pack or the slow animals, or the old animals, or the already injured animals…you know, the ones that couldn’t get away quickly and had fallen away from the pack when the predators showed their faces and everyone went running frantically because “EEKS!!! I DON’T WANT TO BE THE TASTY MORSEL THE PREDATOR EATS!!!”

Kind of like this, but not exactly:

That was my thought process on Saturday Nov 21 as I was hiking and I was dragging along…well, not the I need to run animal, my thought process was that of the animal that was going to get eaten…

But it didn’t start that way…

At first, when I saw the first mountain lion print, I was very excited, because it was going to be a completely different hike from the week prior, and there was an opportunity to see some awesome wildlife…(I know they were out there, I saw their prints…mountain lion, bobcat, deer, maybe even a bear print.) The scenery was much prettier too. More treey. The terrain was a little rougher though, it was rocky. But I still had a blast.

We (we being Brian, Misty, and I) hiked all the way up to the south peak of the Sandia Mountains, where when we were out from the cover of the trees it was cold and windy. But it was very cool to be all the way up there and looking down on the city.

You can see the north peak behind us, that’s where the world’s longest tram goes to and all our radio towers live.

The view was beautiful.

At one point, we’re not sure how because coming back was cool, but on the way up the mountain, at one point, we lost our trail…so we blazed our own…and it was windy and cold along our trail…coming back down the moutain we had found the trail that we originally lost so we went back that way and it was in the trees and it was sunny and nice

The hike was tough but I enjoyed it, we went 14 miles and climbed 3,507 ft to a total elevation of 9,800 ft.

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