Ah, yes. The opening lyrics to one of my favorite childhood movies, “The Sound of Music.” Maria begins by running through a high alpine meadow singing about how you have to keep searching, climbing mountains and fording streams, until you find your true purpose in life. It seems like I have been singing this song a lot lately at Rocky Mountain high.
Update: I’ve now hiked 5 Fourteeners! A personal statistic that I didn’t necessarily think I would have achieved this time last year. In looking back through the pictures I think it is simply amazing how similar yet at the same time different each peak is:
Gray's Peak Sept. 2010
Quandary Peak October 2010
Bierstadt Peak October 2010
Torrey's Peak July 2011
Mt. Elbert July 2011
As learned on Quandary Mountain, “there are no easy fourteeners”
Hiking is one of my favorite summertime Colorado activities. It provides a vast array of offerings to a person: a challenge, vigorous exercise, scenic alpine tundra landscapes, and an awesome sense of accomplishment. I would say it is a form of therapy, in fact.
Wow! Congrats that’s quite an accimplishment!
What an amazing and exhilarating feat! So proud of you!
Amazing!!! We’re all very proud of you!!!