[Chris]
This is the story of a trip in August 2008 to the Mount of the Holy Cross Wilderness in CO with Emily, myself, and our friend, James. It’s an exciting one if you haven’t heard it before. I can't believe it was 3.5 years ago!
Most of the trips Emily and I take have the primary goal of seclusion; we often judge the success of the trip, at least in part, by how few people we see. This trip was different though. Our friend James said he needed more danger and adventure in his life and he said he wanted to accomplish something. Well I suppose I can’t take all the credit, but this trip delivered in the danger and adventure categories.
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| Mount of the Holy Cross |
Emily and I had already done a
trip in Pictured Rocks earlier that summer so we thought this would be a good opportunity to do something different. We left early in the morning, got to Denver by dinner time, had dinner with our friend Alex, and then drove the rest of the way to the trailhead. We slept by the car that night and got going in the morning. The plan for the first day was to hike over half-moon pass, down to the stream, and up to one of the lakes underneath the cirque (Lake Patricia). The next day we would try reach the summit of Mt of the Holy Cross (a 14er), and the third day we would hike out. I guess our trip didn’t vary too much from our plan, but the way it happened wasn’t exactly as expected.
