This past year my husband got the itch to go mountain climbing and since I decided that he could not do this adventure alone I joined in. We first started with Mt. St. Helens. As an active volcano that is still rumbling and was closed to climbers for several years for fear of eruption, I was a little (okay...a lot) nervous the day before the climb as we drove around the mountain to survey what we had gotten ourselves into. As we were getting our climbing passes the day before we met up with several people that had just finished summitting it. A few of them were younger kids, so I figured if they could do it, then I could do it. At a summit of only 8,365 feet it is a small mountain.
We made it to the top and had a great time doing it. It was physically exhausting (we were definitely not in mountain climbing shape) and we were tired when we were done, but we soon were talking about our next mountain climbing adventure.
As midwesterners where flat land and cornfields stretch for miles upon miles, many of our friends and family thought and still think we are crazy for wanting to do these climbs. Mt. Hood 2008 here we come!
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