Tue, 03 Jul 2007
Hiking the Chief
By Christina Farnell
The Chief
This past Saturday I went hiking with a group of my class mates. We drove about 1 1/2 NW of here and hiked "The Chief". As you can see from the picture below, the front side is pretty impressive. Don't worry, we hiked up the back side.
This past Saturday I went hiking with a group of my class mates. We drove about 1 1/2 NW of here and hiked "The Chief". As you can see from the picture below, the front side is pretty impressive. Don't worry, we hiked up the back side.
Yes, we were headed for the highest point there on the left.
This guy chose the more difficult way to get to the top (at least in my opinion).
Here are some pictures to show what the trail was like where I went. Very steep, but when it was necessary they had chains or ladders to help make it simple.
I was grateful for the good tread on my boots.
Here are some pictures to show what the trail was like where I went. Very steep, but when it was necessary they had chains or ladders to help make it simple.
I was grateful for the good tread on my boots.
Here's a picture of some of the coloring on the rock from water running over it.
This should give you an idea of just how steep it was. I'm not yet to the top.
Almost there!!
Standing on the top. Yeah!! That was a long hike, but fun.
I think both this chipmunk and this man are crazy...way too close to the edge for my comfort!
I stayed away from the edge.
There was a small plane that kept flying in really close to us. I couldn't get a very good picture because it was going really fast. It was awesome though, he did some tricks a few times.
This is a view from halfway down the mountain.
And when we got to the bottom again we read the sign. I guess it might have been a good idea to read the sign before starting the hike. But, everybody made it safely and it was really fun.
