Climbing a Mountain
Dec. 4th, 2008 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vixaliciousIn the 'Have You Ever' meme, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marny_h96 asked about me climbing a mountain.
Keep in mind, a lot of mountains are not that tall. Just this last week, I climbed down Stone Mountain. It's a mile down, and it's pretty steep at times.
But the one I was thinking of for the meme was Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. My brother and I climbed up this when we were living in Nashua; it's just over 3000 feet tall (1000 meters). We did this in the typical fashion of our family: no planning, no forethought. I think it was around 11 am when my brother asked if I wanted to go, and I said sure, why not? We got there around 2 pm - hey, we had to get lunch - and climbed up it just in time to see a beautiful sunset.
Those of you who have hiked before may see the problem here.
So now it's twilight, and we need to get off this mountain. So we're practically running, which is a bad plan. About halfway down, I took a mis-step, landed wrong on my knee, and hyper-extended it, which is a fancy way of saying 'bent it in the wrong direction.' Ouchy. It still gives me problems to this day. Good times, good times.
marny_h96 asked about me climbing a mountain.Keep in mind, a lot of mountains are not that tall. Just this last week, I climbed down Stone Mountain. It's a mile down, and it's pretty steep at times.
But the one I was thinking of for the meme was Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. My brother and I climbed up this when we were living in Nashua; it's just over 3000 feet tall (1000 meters). We did this in the typical fashion of our family: no planning, no forethought. I think it was around 11 am when my brother asked if I wanted to go, and I said sure, why not? We got there around 2 pm - hey, we had to get lunch - and climbed up it just in time to see a beautiful sunset.
Those of you who have hiked before may see the problem here.
So now it's twilight, and we need to get off this mountain. So we're practically running, which is a bad plan. About halfway down, I took a mis-step, landed wrong on my knee, and hyper-extended it, which is a fancy way of saying 'bent it in the wrong direction.' Ouchy. It still gives me problems to this day. Good times, good times.
