So in two hours we were at camp already feeling pretty good about ourselves and thinking that the past few days got us into temporary enough shape that we could do this easily. At about this time it's still early in the morning and the set of people that hiked the summit last night are beginning to descend...it is not a pretty sight.
From the catatonic to the unintelligible everyone looks ragged and worn out and dehydrated. Everyone. This one girl, poor thing, didn't know where she was, clothes falling off, dragging her feet half dead to the world as she was carried down.
So in the spirit of positive thinking we tell ourselves that there were many others who had already made it up and down so we were only witnessing the unfortunate stragglers. Whatever personal pep talk works well enough for me at this stage. J is cold and complaining that she can't wait to get off this mountain to be warm again. Almost there.
From the catatonic to the unintelligible everyone looks ragged and worn out and dehydrated. Everyone. This one girl, poor thing, didn't know where she was, clothes falling off, dragging her feet half dead to the world as she was carried down.
So in the spirit of positive thinking we tell ourselves that there were many others who had already made it up and down so we were only witnessing the unfortunate stragglers. Whatever personal pep talk works well enough for me at this stage. J is cold and complaining that she can't wait to get off this mountain to be warm again. Almost there.
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