08/15/2009
Ben and I weren’t satisfied with only climbing Shasta, so we decided to head out for another fourteener. We decided that it would be fun to go for something that was hard, but had no ropes required. After a long night drive through Yosemite and Bishop, we found ourselves camped up next to the Big Pine Creek.
Waking up early the next morning, we packed up camp and drove up to glacier lodge. There we started hiking up the trail. Unfortunately we ended up on the north fork of the big pine trail for about half an hour and had to loop back to the south fork. With an extra two miles under our belt, we finally started up the south fork of the big pine creek trail around noon. We then slowly worked up the trial past a gorgeous waterfall and through the woods above it. At this point I had vastly overestimated my strength and was dying as we trudged through the bolder field to hit finger lake. Next year, I pledged to be in better shape.
