Shasta Climb

This is a quick update on our climb yesterday. I will write more later.

We started the hike at 3:30 am Thursday morning after sleeping in the van. I am in average shape at best so I was struggling from the beginning. 25 steps then rest, count to ten, and then do it again. This was my pace up the entire mountain. The fact that I made it to the top is proof that it is more about how hard you can push yourself than how great of shape you are in. I lost all interest near the beginning of the hike in taking pictures (which is unusual for me) because I was struggling so much. So Dan took over and took all of these great pictures. The climb was incredibly exhausting. Probably the most difficult thing physically I have ever done. You can see from the pictures, it was beautiful. The total trip took about 13 hours. I will add the details later...