It's the Grande Finale, folks! The seventh summit, the big show, the very last mountain of the year.
Sheratin Mountain!
I saved Sheratin for last, not because it's my faovrite, because it isn't. The hike is long, not necessarily breathtaking views or anything, and the summit is lackluster and all around blah compared to the other summits.
Regardless, it's the last summit, and we're going to finish, by goodness!
We recruited our friend Ericka and her husband to join Cam and I on our last big mountain adventure of the summer.
It took all day, mostly due to the fact that Ericka and I had "Barometer Legs" from climbing the knee killer of a mountain yesterday. Cam and Mr Shane zoomed up up the mountain and would wait for a few minutes for Ericka and I to catch up.
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| "Mom, this would be a great picture. Make sure to get the water part." |
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| Cam and Mr Shane leaving us in the dust |
The mountains really were gorgeous today though, and made the long hike totally worth it.
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| Cam crossing through a waterfall and creekbed |
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| Where's Camden? |
And then the final push, the ridiculously steep climb up straight up a game trail to the ridgeline that heads to the summit.
This really cool mom and son couple that we met on the way up took this super awesome shot of the four of us marching up to the game trail from the top of the ridgeline.
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| Can you see us? Tiny little specks to the left and below the snow bank |
And then, after "another half mile or so" ("we're getting there", is what I always say), we finally, finally made it to the final, seventh summit.
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| We did it! Seven summit victory is OURS! |
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| Summit snacks! |
Funny thing about Camden, he finds friends wherever he goes. We met the mom and son again at the summit, turns out the boy is also 12, and from Boston, and they asked to take a photo together (although since I have no idea who these people are I refrained from posting).
After some lunch and summit snacks, we headed back down, and made quick work of the rest of that mountain.
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| Another group shot courtesy of the family we met! |
And that's it! We did it! Seven summits in our back pocket and we are done, folks.
Camden is officially now a member of the Seven Summits Challenge Champions Club! Which I just completely invented myself, but on Monday we will most certainly go to the Ferry Terminal and make it official (via a finisher's sticker).
And now to rest my Barometer/Sheratin legs for the next 12 months.
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