This hike was unreal. I can not even begin to explainhow amazing and breathtaking it was (literally). The entire hike is about 4,000 steps!! Sometimes your just hiking upwards but at a few points your actually climbing, straight up like a ladder. We left campus at 1:30 A.M. in the morning and began hiking at 2:15ish before the guards get there! hah Luckily we picked a great night to hike because there wasnt any rain and not one cloud was in the sky. The hard part about rain is that the steps because very slippery and it takeslonger to hike. It was amazing and I couldnt stop saying that because I was blown away with the thought that our Heavenly Father created all of this for us! How amazing is that? It was one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen in my entire life.
The entire hike looks like this though...you are climbing upthese small metal steps with the handrails up both sides and a drop off down both sides. Not to mention, im partially afraid of heights :) There are 3 stops throughout the whole hike and we would stop to rest, take pictures, and eat food.
We arrived to the top aroud 4:15 A.M. and the sun usually doesnt rise until 5:45 A.M. so we climbed to the very top and got on top of this small building and took a nice little nap. It was freezing up there too!
Around 5:30 they woke us up and the sun was beggining to rise. I could not believe what I was seeing...it was amazing! Once the sun was up past the ocean we began out trek back down the mountain, now that I could actually see what I was hiking I couldnt believe what I had just done in the middle of the night. Thanks to Skylar he kept me company and kept my mind off of it the whole time!
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