Mt. Adams Results

Well Mt. Adams was quite the adventure. I was debating about whether or not I should even blog about our trip, but... we managed to get away with a few pictures and since I use our blog as an online journal of sorts I figured I might as well. Due to inclement weather we decided it was best to not bring along our nice camera but luckily we just had our small digital one. It was raining pretty hard outside when we got to the trail head, but we geared up and went anyways. The first night we hiked up quite a ways and stopped once it got dark and set up camp. Apparently there was a storm the night before and a bit more storm the night we were up there (lucky us) so the trail was covered over with snow and the trail was a bit lost to us, but we figured hey, all we have to do to reach the top is to go up right? So we headed up, soon found out our own trail was a little more technical but still quite the adventure. We made it to the false summit but due to time constraints decided it was best to just start heading back down, well since we climbed up mostly rocks, we couldn't see our tracks and got lost for a while on the mountain and THAT is when the real adventure started. It was a neat experience in the long run but one we all prefer not to relive anytime soon. You can see in the pictures that we definitely forgot our sunscreen and we found out the hard way that a snow burn is the worst kind of sunburn. Even now, a week later we are still in the recovery process. As for Adams, we are all bummed about making it so far and not reaching summit, but we are going out again in about a month, this time with the proper gear and for me boots that fit!

Bran and I in the morning, don't we look so chipper?

This is actually after we had started on our way down, you can already see the sunburns on our face

Seth and Brandon with Mt. Adams in the background