It all started with a drive and a want for adventure. I was 18 years old I just recently graduated from high school. I wanted to go out and do something memorable and ambitious that I would remember for the rest of my life. After brainstorming what to do I finally decided that a backpacking trip would be perfect. I saw this as a time to challenge myself and this would help prepare me for my new life out of high school and the perfect place to challenge myself were the cascades in central Washington. So I called up my lifelong friend Noah King. Noah has the same personality as me if he sees a challenge he’s going to attempt it. So with that I knew I had the perfect partner to go with me on my journey. After talking with Noah we decided
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We tumbled down the mountain slipping and sliding in the darkness we were moving with a purpose with new found strength and motivation we pushed on. We took our snowshoes off hoping to make better time by just sliding down the mountain rather than walking. As we approached our first river crossing I set down my pack and realized I had lost a snowshoe. Somewhere up the mountain I had dislodged it from my pack and before us was miles of deep snowfields that were totally impassable without snowshoes. Weighing in my predicament I knew this could totally end our chances of having banana bread tonight. Then I got an idea I could just duck tape my avalanche shovel to my boot and it would help me stay afloat in the snow. With my modified snowshoe rigged up we started out with nothing but banana bread on our minds. Hours later we neared the trail head seeing this I began to run towards the car my modified snowshoe was barely intact but I didn’t care. We let out a yell as we got to the car we had made it I had never felt more relieved in my entire life. By the end of the day we had hiked over thirteen hours and had gone over 25 miles in one day. I learned a valuable lesson on that trip. I learned to never give up no matter the circumstances your faced with. Your mindset can predict your outcome. All in all I’m glad that we did what we did we learned a lot about ourselves that day and we definitely made memories. I also learned that banana bread is a lot better after a twenty five mile
We tumbled down the mountain slipping and sliding in the darkness we were moving with a purpose with new found strength and motivation we pushed on. We took our snowshoes off hoping to make better time by just sliding down the mountain rather than walking. As we approached our first river crossing I set down my pack and realized I had lost a snowshoe. Somewhere up the mountain I had dislodged it from my pack and before us was miles of deep snowfields that were totally impassable without snowshoes. Weighing in my predicament I knew this could totally end our chances of having banana bread tonight. Then I got an idea I could just duck tape my avalanche shovel to my boot and it would help me stay afloat in the snow. With my modified snowshoe rigged up we started out with nothing but banana bread on our minds. Hours later we neared the trail head seeing this I began to run towards the car my modified snowshoe was barely intact but I didn’t care. We let out a yell as we got to the car we had made it I had never felt more relieved in my entire life. By the end of the day we had hiked over thirteen hours and had gone over 25 miles in one day. I learned a valuable lesson on that trip. I learned to never give up no matter the circumstances your faced with. Your mindset can predict your outcome. All in all I’m glad that we did what we did we learned a lot about ourselves that day and we definitely made memories. I also learned that banana bread is a lot better after a twenty five mile