hiking

today a group of girls from my stairwell drove up to st marys glacier, although i would in no way even begin to call it a glacier. haha. along the way we ran into some firemen who were offering free hot dogs for donations into their boot. so we got some tasty food and some quality time with firemen. i love them. we drove the rest of the way up to the trailhead. we started hiking up. it was kind of hard because it was pretty steep and there was no real trail. just lots of big loose rocks. we finally made it to the lower summit. it was so beautiful. there was a little clear lake, pretty trees, and a cute bridge. we watched some people jump off of the rocks into the lake. it looked like fun. we decided to go up further to reach the upper summit. that climb was a lot harder and steeper. for me the alaskan, elevation zero, i wanted to die. my lungs hurt so bad and i felt so light headed. we stopped for a minute to see these huge storm clouds coming in as well as thunder. we decided it would probably be a good idea to turn around. the thunder got closer and it started to rain. when we were almost to the lower summit it started to pour rain and the lightening was right over us. it was terrifying. it made the popping sound and echoed off of the mountain walls. we started running down the mountain and it started to hail. the hail was so thick you could barely see and it was so incredibly painful. there was no tree covering so we ran most of the way to the bottem for fifteen more minutes while we were underneath the lightening and getting peltd by hail. we finally made it to the car. safe and wet.