Mountain Climbing

The other day Josh and I took this lovely little, but very steep, path part way up the mountain behind our school...

We got a very good view of the school from there but we had the stroller with us and it was getting really difficult to go any further so we turned around and went home.

Today on the other hand we decided to go back up again for a short walk and we brought a backpack carrier for Gabriel to sit in so it would be easier. We didn't bring anything with us because we had only planned on being gone for maybe a half hour... but it didn't turn out that way! First we decided to go off the path just a little bit up this hill because it was covered in chestnuts and we wanted to find some...

... and I found some cool mushrooms...

Once we got to the top of this little hill we found a path so we decided to see where it led to. We found out that there were a few graves up there...

At this point we were already this high...

On the other side of the graves we saw another little path, so we decided to see where it led to...

It was very beautiful walking around and nothing was really super steep so we kept going...

Well, we soon found out that the path started to get steeper and steeper... and we were running out of energy and breath! But, we kept seeing these crests and it looked like it was the top so we kept going up and then realizing that there was another crest and another and another, each one we were thinking was the top...it actually got disappointing after awhile because each time you were so excited to get to the top and then you were never really there!

 Josh carried Gabriel the whole way!

So in this picture I basically just turned to the side from our path and took a picture... you can see how steep it is!

We finally, sort of, made it to the top! As you can kind of see from the pictures, the forest is very thick here and even when we got to the top we couldn't really see anything so I didn't take any pictures (and we weren't exactly pretty looking from a hike that wasn't planned). And I say we 'sort of' got to the top because we were exhausted and got to one of the crests towards the top when we realized that it looked like there was yet another one. We really needed to get back because as I said before, we didn't bring anything, it was supposed to be a short walk after all so we never went up, what we think was, the final big crest. Oh well, I still say that I climbed the mountain:) The walk down though nearly killed us, literally. It was very steep and slippery and we lost our footing quite a few times! No tumbles though and no broken bones so we were pretty happy! We were just very tired and hot and thirsty when we finally got home about 2 hours after we left!