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Tired doggies
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Vacationing can be hard work. The knuckleheads pretty much passed out after too many days of wild puppy fun. This was in Willapa Bay, WA on our way to Long Island.


Found this photo being used here:
www.tropicalforum.com/2011/09/good-vacation-photos/


Worth the Effort
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Image by MonotonousSarah
On vacation, the girls spent a day shopping at the outlets, and the boys spent the next day on a "death march", led by our fearless hiking friend, Mark. They all came back talking about how tough a hike it was.

The next day, Mark took a few of us on a "long, rambling" hike up Mt Chocorua. He had been seeing the rock face from the road for a few days and dying to get up it. According to the map at the house, it was about a 4 mile hike with 1,250 ft elevation. We didn't find out until after we finished the hike and stopped to buy some Gatorade that it was indeed about a 4 mile hike...but actually a 3,490 ft elevation.

We started up the trail around 5:30 AM, and it was nice and rambling and fun. Time went by, and the trail got steeper and steeper, until it was essentially a staircase of boulders, with a foot high rise on each step. We were not ready for this. Most of us hadn't done this kind of hike in our lives, or any kind of exercise in the recent past.

There were a lot of breaks, and 2 of our 4 decided they were going to stop and rest, while the other 2 (Mark and myself) kept going. Not much farther up the trail, Mark and I broke the tree line, and saw this. We started screaming over the side of the mountain: "KEEP GOING!" "AMAZING VIEW!"

We couldn't hear any reply, so we caught our breath and then started up the granite slabs that were ahead. Eventually I had to stop, and Mark kept going to the peak. I headed back down to this spot, and found the other two members of our group.

It was worth the effort. This was the moment where I realized that I actually love hiking and just never knew it.

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