Bush Wackin'

The other day Callum, Gabi, and I took a hike up a hill. I am not sure if you guys have noticed, but there is a large hill that over looks the football field and track in some of my pictures. Well, we climbed it. The main reason for the climb was to get a good vantage point of the campus to get some pictures. I saw this flower right at the base of the hill. There was a flower that had bloomed there, but I accidentally knocked it off. Oops!

 Before we started our ascent, we walked around the base looking to see if there was a trail up. The only thing we could find was an overgrown logging trail turned into a water way. This trail took is up to a ridge about 200ft below where we wanted to be, but we went up. The logging trail was beyond the point of where it could be called steep. 80% of the climb on the logging trail was done on all fours. Since it was also had rained a couple days before, the trail was really slippery. We slipped a lot. The reason we are not on all fours in this picture is because it was one of the only parts of the trail i could stand comfortably enough to take a picture.

 At the top of the first ridge the trail stopped. So we took a couple photos. You can see here how dense and deep the brush was. That didn't stop us though, we kept on going.

This picture was taken at the top of the lower peak. It was the first view of the campus from above. This gave us hope that there would be an even better view at the highest point.

 After resting for a couple minutes, we were moving again. This picture was taken very near to the top of the peak, but the brush was too dense for us the push through. We couldn't find a clearing either, so no picture was taken. It was very disappointing, especially since we had pushed our way through so much crap. At around this point we were walking on so many fallen branches and trees we were pretty much suspended from the ground.

 

 On the way down, we became lost trying to find the trail we had previously made. We eventually found the logging trail again so we went down. We decided that the fastest and most fun was down would be on our asses. It was awesome. Callum went first, I followed closely which turned into me crashing into him.

 Gabi was behind me and she came down faster than both me and Callum. She crashed into both of us.

At the bottom of the mountain we were absolutely covered in crap. Callum cut his hand sliding while trying to push a thorn branch of of his way. That same thorn branch hit me in the chest. Gabi was untouched. We decided that since our first ascent was disappointing, we will go one more time. This time with something to cut our way to the top.