Mt. Timp

I have always wanted to hike Timp as I have heard others talk about how cool it is…so, I created a facebook group and invited everyone to come with me on Friday, September 4th.

Unfortunately, however, I got sick the day before going and decided that it would not be to my advantage to go hike the mountain. One week, I decided that I could not put it off any longer. So, at 11:30pm on Friday the 11th, Matt, Rachel Connell and I left to go hike the mountain. Chrissy spent the week preparing us by telling us about her not-so-fabulous experience so we came well-prepared. The picture below is just above “The Saddle” of the mountain. Matt and I made it about 15-20 minutes above the saddle trying to summit before we decided to turn around. We had a time limit as Rachel and I had to be at work at 8am the next morning. We made it up to the Saddle around 3:45am.

Here is what it looked like most of the time. Those are flashlights of those who came behind me. The picture is not as cool as I wanted it to look but I think it gets the point across. It was pitch black and we had to use our flashlights. It was hard even to use the light of others’ flashlights because there were rocks and obstacles much of the way.

This photo was taken around 6:30am. It was getting light but it was still really dark on the trail.

Matt was really excited to be in this picture.

We were lucky to have Rachel come with us. :)

YAY. Pictures.

It was really pretty once we got to see everything.

YAY. We made it. We left at 12:20 and made it down at about 7:10.