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DAY 4: Summitted a Mountain This morning we were up at 5am for a quick breakfast and our hike up the mountain. The ranger told Matt that we should set aside 12 hours for the 10 mile hike up and down the mountain. We registered on the mountain at 5:53am and hiked...and hiked...and hiked. The first mile was pretty easy once we all got warmed up. It was nice to know that my heart is still working...it was thump, thumping ...

Monday morning we meet our rafting guide for our training in whitewater paddling. Our guide will teach us how to direct our raft toward the best bumps and splashes as we maneuver through the rapids. There is not much to learn. The skills are really quite simple. You will learn to paddle to the guide's instructions as he shouts, "All Hard" or "Left Side Hard" or "Break Right ...

Explaining our day at Katahdin is going to be really hard for me, because I don't want to seem like a chicken, but I don't want to leave out the fact that I was incredibly intimidated and crushed by the whole thing. Mt. Katahdin is 5400 ft tall. The trail starts at Katahdin Stream Campground 3400 ft below the peak. Andrew and Benji and I got a late start because of some site reservations issues. Our plan had been to start at 5 AM, which given an average eight hour climbing time ...

Well, I went out to the Lower Deck for some live traditional maritme music. (Banjo and fiddle) some Keith's and then joined an American and two Sask girls to the Keith's bar. $2.00 drinks. Yahoo. Well the morning was groggy but too sunny to sleep away. So I left Halifax - a great place to visit and deserved more time but I wanted to see Peggy's cove. The most photographed place in Canada for a reason. Beautiful. Postcard perfect. Also ...

... I started up and it wasn't too difficult, but I could't gauge how long it would take me and if it would be trouble coming back down. Then about half way up I passed a family with a couple elementary school kids just taking their time and I realized it wasn't going to be too difficult. I had left at 10:15 and arrived at the top at 12:39. It was beautiful and what made it more impressive was the fact that it was just like it was ...

... the road and slowly at this point made enough progress to make it all the way up and when I got over on the shoulder I turned to see what I had heard as everything had been flung off the shelves and I had a lot of straightening up to do again. I went on south a little and parked by on an old bi-pass road near Sherman, glad my van at least didn't become a boat. My art website http://home.earthlink.net/~greenvanartu sa/index.html