It was the avacados that did it

When I get to Moab, I’ll get my canteen filled. Theres nothing that the road cannot heal.
i just climbed the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. and my eyes burn. mostly from hiking 14 hours in one day, maybe a bit from dust in my eyes, or maybe because my eyes are revolting against me for fixating on the most beautiful sights i have ever absorbed and then ripping them back to reality. it was incredible. it was a 7 day trip, to acclimatize us for the altitute that only a person who needs about two breaths of oxygen every five minutes can handle without difficulty. so every day we would hike about 5 hours and then on the day before the hike here was my diet. breakfast: tea, an omlette, two peanut butter sandwitches, oatmeal, fruit. snack: a luna bar and two fun size snickers. Lunch: cucumber soup, two pieces of bread, spaghetti, rice, and more bread. Dinner: please see lunch and imagine larger portions. oh, and somewhere in between all of that i ate a family size bag of chocolate chip Famous Amos cookies. We took a nap after all that and then woke up at 11 at night to get ready. aka put on EVERY article of clothing that i own, and strapped on my chic boots to start the trek. it was steeper than a flight of stairs and there were about 30 hikers on our side, all wearing headlamps in the pitch black darness, so it looked like there were 30 drunk shooting stars lazily climbing. we were moving about a step every ten seconds, mostly because of the altiturte but also because i was literally wearing 7 pairs of pants so it was difficult to move any faster. my dad turned around after about two hourse becuse of altittue sickness, but i made my sister go with my. and oh my god, was it worth it. by the time the sun started up on the horizon, it was an out of this world experience. it was just a horizontal line with shards of yellow shooting up from the bottom. and then came the colors, which would made a male peacock die of jeoulosy. it took us about 6 1/2 hours to get to the top, which is covered by these phenomelnal glaciers that look like massive waves. i cant even describe it. but then the exhaustion set in, and we headed down after katie took pictures. the hike down was fun for about 5 seconds because we were hiking down pure sand.
i am so thankful for pure human beings.