Summit

We made it to the top of Tres Picos today. What a day! We spent the afternoon approaching the mountain. Around 3.30 we ran into a man coming off the top of the moutian. He told us we had about a two hour hike and only 2.5 hours of light left. He told us if we wanted to go up he would wait to make sure we made it back safe. The climb approaching the moutian was brutal. Several times I felt like quitting. Seeing me struggling, Jessie gave me the following piece of advice "Take small steps, just keep moving foward." The advice didn't ease the pain in my legs and the climb was just as hard but it help. I relaxed took small steps where I normally would have stopped to rest. I could have asked Jesse to take smaller steps so I could keep up. He set a tough pace and Kelly manged to keep up better than I. I can't blame the extra weight I was carring because we dropped or packs at the base to save time. When we finally made it to the summit it was all worth it. I introduced Kelly and Jesse to the Yetti. We had a great time taking photos and basking in our accomplishment. I felt so proud of myslef and the group as a whole. I can honestly say now that if I would have known how hard everything was going to be I probally would have never even tried. But I did and I made it. That was one of my proudest moments of my life.