Mt. Olympus is a tough one! I started this summer with a big only bucket list of things to get done and well this one I didn't plan for very well. One morning Mary and I couldn't decide what to do. I looked at my bucket list and decided that it was time to cross Mt. Olympus off the list. We put on some hiking shoes, sports bras, tank tops, running shorts, 1 water bottle each, a small snack, and ran out the door. This was our first mistake....when hiking a huge Mountain bring more than one water bottle per person. We soon found we needed at least 3! Our next mistake was starting this hike at 12:30 in the afternoon on a 97 degree day. Yes, we are idiots!
At first we were doing really well! Feeling pretty good about ourselves!
See we are about 30 minutes into it...we thought that meant we were about a third of the way up.....
After about an hour of hiking the heat was killing us! Mary had taken off her shirt and I followed after 10 minutes. Of course, as soon as the shirts came off we saw the first people we had seen since we started the hike.....2 hours of hiking went by and we thought we were close to the top. Then a very nice man informed us we had another hour and half to go.
Picture this. Two teenage girls, no shirts, out of water, in the middle of the day, on a mountain, thinking they were almost done, then being told they had just barely made the half way point. It was not a pretty sight.
We made the smart choice of turning around and getting some water in us. I was super bummed and frustrated but it just wasn't safe to go the rest without water or food.
On the way down we had a photo shoot :)
YOLO We will just have to try again when we are more prepared!
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