Hiking and Camping?

[Cy~]

Your hiking stories are brilliantly entertaining.

 

The training hike went well, actually!

 

In comparison to our normal hikes, it was fairly uneventful, aside from the fact that we managed to locate an 800 foot sheer drop in the middle of a fairly innocuous part of the trail. Zoop didn't really have many crazy things to do since we're really familiar with this trail and I was actually able to keep up with her without much incident or complication.

 

Anyways, tomorrow, we will hopefully hike at one of the jewels of the hiking trails in the NW USA. Wish us luck! Should be amusing!

[Cy~]

Back from vacation! The hike was... HOLY SHIT, it was fucking intense.

 

Zoop had promised me a pretty hike, but she also talked up how hard it was. Well, I mean, after the last month of practice, I wasn't necessarily convinced. Then, we reached the trail and started. We went up, and up, and up, and up. At a certain point, I began to realize that I think we had bit off just about as much as we could chew in a single day trip.

 

Sadly, Zoop was too mildly out of it to say "I told you so". The normal flailing silliness was actually exchanged with her being a little absentminded and distracted. There's a really good reason for the distraction - we needed to have a really big conversation with her parents later that day, and on the way up, I think that it was all she could think of.

 

The awkward thing about it is that she still sorta outpaced me, hahaha. I say sorta, because there were a few times (just once, maybe twice?) when I had to gently shove her back upright when she started getting lost in her own thoughts and began falling backwards (we had gone about 1,500 feet up, it was a long way down, lmfao).

 

Anyways, I can't lie. I was actually feeling a little bit smug. It felt nice to be the only one in full possession of my faculties as we reached the highest point of the trail. We were taking a break when, suddenly, Zoop just goes like, "Hey, look, it's a chipmunk!" I was like, "Wait what?!" The chipmunk ran a little bit away, and then this crowd of loud idiots arrived and the chipmunk fled.

 

Zoop was immediately like, "The chipmunk is gone! They chased away my chipmunk!1! DX LET'S LOSE THEM!" Annnnnnnnnnd, we were off to the fucking races. On a trail, you say? Yes. On a fucking trail. We took off at about as fast as you could go before you were running. The people behind us were lost and were hoping to use us as a guide. Zoop wasn't having any of their shit, so she went faster when we didn't immediately leave them in the dust.

 

Yeah, so like... My smugness? It was all gone, hahaha. I spent the next 45 minutes skidding, sliding, dancing, and stumbling down a mountainside at max speed before I remembered that I could say SLOW THE FUCK DOWN. Which was actually pointless to say at that moment, because we had reached the tourist side.

 

At this point, we had been hiking for two hours and forty minutes. I was sweaty, stinky, grumpy, dirty, and completely exhausted. Now, what do I see? Screaming kids, people wearing exercise outfits, and lots of idiots with cameras. How many? Probably more than two thousand.

 

Apparently, since the last time Zoop had visited the trail, it had become an even more popular tourist attraction. Now, they were milling around the easy side of the trail in massive numbers, occassionally staring at Zoop and I with wide-eyed confusion as if wondering "how did you get all sweaty??!?!?! DX DX DX)

 

By the time we made it to the car, I was in full powered misanthropic asshole mode, hahaha. HOWEVER, the hike was fun and Zoop was back to fully functioning. I guess I'm just really confused... All of my attempts to make her feel better failed, but a chipmunk worked?!?!? Ah well.

[zoop]

Anyways, I can't lie. I was actually feeling a little bit smug. It felt nice to be the only one in full possession of my faculties as we reached the highest point of the trail. We were taking a break when, suddenly, Zoop just goes like, "Hey, look, it's a chipmunk!" I was like, "Wait what?!" The chipmunk ran a little bit away, and then this crowd of loud idiots arrived and the chipmunk fled.

 

The chipmunk was startled by Cy~, but still stayed fairly close, just moving back a foot or two. It looked at me, and I looked at it. I feel that we bonded a bit, glancing warily at each other and pondering each other's life experiences. it was a special moment. Sadly it was a special moment that was soon shattered.

 

Look, those jackasses that came behind us and started yelling about were really annoying. You know they tried to keep pace with us? When we sped up, they tried to keep up with us. Fuck that. I like my damn tranquility!

 

We smoked those assholes.