The EPIC faith adventure of hiking and more! Part 1; The Journey There.
Me and my buddy Jon were going on a hike for the weekend!
We had it all planned out; meet up at my grandma's house on thursday afternoon, get to bed early, get up early in the morning and leave first thing, hike up friday afternoon, chill in the beautiful Horseshoe Basin all day saturday, leave sunday morning and drive home when we got back down the mountain, get home safe and sound.
Hahaha.
Riiiiiight.
GOD had a much bigger and better plan.
Here is how it really happened....
First thing was that Jon didn't get there until about 11 pm and we still had to pack everything in my car.
like, he hadn't even put his clothes into his hiking pack.
We were just hangin' out, getting everything packed up, and just having a good time.
then all the sudden it was 12:30 am and we were still up, doing stuff, having fun.
*sigh* so much for getting enough sleep.
Then the thought crossed our minds **maybe we should just leave now and sleep when we get there if we need to**......
i was cool with it but i wasn't sure if it was the wise thing to do.
So we prayed about and felt like we should. (and in retrospect it was a reallllly good thing that we did)
seriously.
So here we are, 1 am, we'd both been up since 5 am the previous morning, leaving on a 6+ hour drive.
We were ambitious idiots. ( i will prove this again later) But GOD would work it out for good.
In desperate need of energy drinks we stopped in Olympia to get some.
We. were. buzzy. caffeine will do that to you.
the drive there was good, uneventful and smooth. We didnt talk about much of anything important. caffiene will do that to you.
We stopped in Loomis, which is the last little piece of civilization before you get into wilderness.
Jon got a vanilla coke to go with the steaks he had brought to cook over the fire.
He was stoked.
All was going to plan.
We stopped at this old power plant building next to the road and took some pics.
It was cool. nothing more than four gray walls but it was cool.
We hung out there for a while, played around on it.
It was probably about 9:30 am... but it felt like 3 in the afternoon.
We started driving (very slowly) to the dirt road that would lead us to the trailhead at about 10 and saw some AMAZING views and scenery. It was truly incredible.
I couldn't imagine how anyone could go hiking and not realize that GOD made this.
It was so obvious! It was breath-taking.
I passed over a few small patches of old snow along the road but i didn't think much about it.
THEN.
I saw another patch of snow coming up so i accelerated in order to make it through.
BAD.
BAD PLAN.
It worked for a few feet, but, about 30-40 feet into this snow patch we stopped.
I was still pressing the gas, but i was getting no where.
I was quite literally spinning my wheels.
ARRRGH!
We got out and looked and sure enough, my tires were sitting there in two, tire-shaped holes in the snow.
Yup, we were STUCK. Stuck good.
More coming soon, Rogerdodger.
(Story continued in Part 2)
We had it all planned out; meet up at my grandma's house on thursday afternoon, get to bed early, get up early in the morning and leave first thing, hike up friday afternoon, chill in the beautiful Horseshoe Basin all day saturday, leave sunday morning and drive home when we got back down the mountain, get home safe and sound.
Hahaha.
Riiiiiight.
GOD had a much bigger and better plan.
Here is how it really happened....
First thing was that Jon didn't get there until about 11 pm and we still had to pack everything in my car.
like, he hadn't even put his clothes into his hiking pack.
We were just hangin' out, getting everything packed up, and just having a good time.
then all the sudden it was 12:30 am and we were still up, doing stuff, having fun.
*sigh* so much for getting enough sleep.
Then the thought crossed our minds **maybe we should just leave now and sleep when we get there if we need to**......
i was cool with it but i wasn't sure if it was the wise thing to do.
So we prayed about and felt like we should. (and in retrospect it was a reallllly good thing that we did)
seriously.
So here we are, 1 am, we'd both been up since 5 am the previous morning, leaving on a 6+ hour drive.
We were ambitious idiots. ( i will prove this again later) But GOD would work it out for good.
In desperate need of energy drinks we stopped in Olympia to get some.
We. were. buzzy. caffeine will do that to you.
the drive there was good, uneventful and smooth. We didnt talk about much of anything important. caffiene will do that to you.
We stopped in Loomis, which is the last little piece of civilization before you get into wilderness.
Jon got a vanilla coke to go with the steaks he had brought to cook over the fire.
He was stoked.
All was going to plan.
We stopped at this old power plant building next to the road and took some pics.
It was cool. nothing more than four gray walls but it was cool.
We hung out there for a while, played around on it.
It was probably about 9:30 am... but it felt like 3 in the afternoon.
We started driving (very slowly) to the dirt road that would lead us to the trailhead at about 10 and saw some AMAZING views and scenery. It was truly incredible.
I couldn't imagine how anyone could go hiking and not realize that GOD made this.
It was so obvious! It was breath-taking.
I passed over a few small patches of old snow along the road but i didn't think much about it.
THEN.
I saw another patch of snow coming up so i accelerated in order to make it through.
BAD.
BAD PLAN.
It worked for a few feet, but, about 30-40 feet into this snow patch we stopped.
I was still pressing the gas, but i was getting no where.
I was quite literally spinning my wheels.
ARRRGH!
We got out and looked and sure enough, my tires were sitting there in two, tire-shaped holes in the snow.
Yup, we were STUCK. Stuck good.
More coming soon, Rogerdodger.
(Story continued in Part 2)
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