It is almost 4000 steps up the side of the mountain. One of my previous post I showed some pictures from a hike called KoKo head and it is only 1000 steps and is a pretty intense hike so needless to say I was a little worried about all those steps.
Landry and I have been waiting for a good day when we were both off work with no plans and we really wanted to hike it with some friends. The more the merrier on this type of adventure. OH YEA...I forgot to mention this hike has been shut down and is illegal to hike. Which makes it a little more of an adventure. It is not dangerous, I have mostly just heard that there has been lots of complaints from the surrounding neighborhoods about the noise level so they closed it down. So you have to get to the trail before the security guard shows up.
So my brother Andrew, his friend felix, Justin Jones(a friend from church), Ron(one of my co-workers) and Landry and myself all met at the wal-mart parking lot last night at 1 am to go on this hike. Landry and I both worked yesterday and were planning on taking a nap before we met up, but my excitement kept me wide a wake.
We got to the trail around 1:30 and parked our car on the street in a neighborhood. Right when we got out of the car a lady yelled out her window....I am trying to sleep! So we quieted down and headed up the dark service road with our backpacks full of snacks and water and our head lamps on. We knew how to get to the service road but not how to find the stairs so we spent the first 45 minutes getting our legs nice and warmed up as we stumbled around in the dark looking for the trail.
We had heard that the guard gets there at 2am and we thought he was gonna be there and we weren't going to be able to go. But luckily no guard was there and the long hike began around 2:30 am. It was pitch black and I could only see the steps right in front of me with the light of my head lamp. The nice thing about this hike is there are rails on either side to help pull yourself up with. But of course in the middle of the night they were pretty wet and the steps were pretty slippery.
When the sun finally came up we could not see anything!!! We were so high up we were in a cloud and we had to climb down quite a bit to get a clear view.
The view finally started to show through the clouds.
Beautiful mountains above the H-3 highway.
The steps were really steep at some points.
Ron
Justin and Landry
Felix and Andy
Landry and Me
The Crew...
We came home and crashed half of the day and then we are headed out to see some fireworks tonight. Happy 4th of July.