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I got back from our hiking trip yesterday and it was a good one. On Saturday, like I said, we went up to the top of Mt. Washington and I couldn’t believe the weather that we had. Not only was it entirely clear and probably in the upper 50’s or close to 60 degrees, but there was also absolutely no wind up there. I’ve never been above the tree line where it was completely calm like that. In any case we hiked down to the shelter and there were surprisingly a couple of other groups of hikers setting up camp there as well. We made some dinner, hung around the fire for a bit and turned in early.

Unfortunately, though, the less than optimal sleeping conditions made for a terrible night’s sleep. We didn’t feel like carrying sleeping pads and were just sleeping on the bare wooden floors of the shelter. At around 2AM I woke up and heard something rummaging around in the trees just outside the shelter. I looked out and saw Brian roaming around collecting branches and wood to build a fire. Apparently he was so miserable trying to sleep that he decided to just get up and occupy his time by building a fire and keeping warm. After trying to sleep a little longer, I finally gave up and sat around the fire with him.

It was actually pretty nice to hang around the fire in the middle of the night like that, but it definitely caught up to us on Sunday. We stayed up until dawn and left basically as soon as the sun came up. We were both soon so overtired that we pretty much just wanted to get back to the car. Regardless, though, it was a good trip and a good way to spend the weekend.

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