"Inconveniences are adventures considered wrongly; adventures are inconveniences considered rightly." - G.K. Chesterton "Good morning, Camp Wojtyla!" I shouted at 4:17am. Alpine sludge for breakfast. We got to the parking lot that we were supposed to take off from for our first summit attempt, but the pass was closed. The rough dirt road with huge puddles of water were not ideal driving conditions for the Toyota sedan that we were riding in. We finally made it to a new trail head at just after 8am.
G.K. Chesterton
, well done. We were planning on being on trail by 6am at the original trail head, so nobody was particularly happy when we came upon the road barrier preventing us from going through with that plan. But we all rolled with it and headed off to Fourth of July Trail just outside of Eldora, CO. The drive itself was quite an experience. One of the cars (Darby), couldn't make it all the way, so we had to condense the passengers from that car into one of the suburbans. Immediately following the switch, I watched from the car behind as the suburban shot up into the air as it hit a huge rock in the road that was hidden by a puddle. Luckily, there was no significant damage...to the '97 suburban with 200,000+ miles on it. Later on the trail, we ran into weather complications, so our summit attempt had to be forfeited. On the way down, one of the counselors hurt her knee, so we all had to pitch in to help get her 2 miles down the mountain back to the cars. Talk about an inconvenient situation. It would have taken us a quarter of the time to get down if she hadn't gotten hurt. But it was a tremendous learning experience for all of us. And, after some storming to figure out who was going to lead the operation, we all worked together to get Lailee safely down the mountain.
Plus, we had an awesome time sliding down an icy patch of the mountain!
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