Day 7: We woke up early to catch the ferry out of Seattle so we wouldn't have to drive as much. Once we crossed we ate at this adorable place called the Madison Diner. If you like vintage feeling breakfast joints then I’d say go here. Part of us split up at this point to go on this hike to the top of a mountain. I was nervous because I had previously gotten Covid last year and since then my lungs haven't been the same even though I had a mild case. I knew I could do it if I just walked a slower pace I was just afraid of holding up the group.
One of the Emma's went to go set up our camp for the rest of us embarked on this journey to the top. I was right I walked slower than the rest but still kept a decent pace which I'm not upset about. At one point I almost joined in with another group of girls since we had similar pieces we kind of had a tug-of-war going on, where I would pass them and they would pass me and so on. Eventually we got to the part with the ropes where the trail gets crumbly and narrow. It really isn't that bad if you have good shoes and you hold onto the rope. The top was a lot more narrow than I thought it would be. We need up meeting other content creators up there too so that was a fun little surprise. We all talked, ate some snacks and huddled up since it was pretty windy up there. It was honestly so beautiful especially because you could see some of the Canadian mountain ranges in the distance. But we all waited for sunset/golden hour to come before we became little ants running around on this mountaintop scrambling to do different things in the 10 minute window we had before the light was gone. The girls I sort of packed up with were nearby drinking wine thoroughly entertained they all of us taking photos. The last image one of me is by Albert @alberthbyang
Once the good light was down Ceejay and I decided to head down. I personally wanted to do the rope section when we still had some lasting light. I also recommend going down the rope section like it's a ladder sitting upright using the rope to support you. Anyways since most of the trail is at an incline, the way down felt like we were running down the whole time. At one we heard this weird noise and I swear it sounded like a vibrating phone and I felt bad for someone losing it so I went looking for it. As I got closer to the noise it started to run away and we realized it was some sort of animal but we couldn't figure out what made that creepy noise.
Eventually because we walk slow and because it was so hard to see the trail at on point, the rest of the group caught up to us but we were only like five minutes from the trail head.
We parted ways with our new friends as we headed back to the campsite that Emma stayed to set up. Since we got there when it was dark we basically ate dinner and went to bed shortly afterwards. Here’s a picture of our camp site in the morning.
