charlie's blog

Mt. Rose

Last night at about 9:00 pm, chuck and i were just arriving at his house, when he looks at me and asks what we should do. I responded that i really didn't have any idea. After a few seconds of thought he says, "you know what would be fun." now having had enough adventures with petar and the rest of the gang i know what normally happens when somebody asks that question. It turns out chuck wanted to hike up Rose, but not in the daytime, right then, he wanted to sleep on the top. Now back when my life was as calm and pleasent as it is now and there were other external forces at work, i came up with this same idea at about 1 in the morning. i don't remember much except that it was pretty cold. So needless to say i said sure and we started gathering some stuff up. Chuck's dad thought it wasn't such a good idea (his exact words might have been something like "you guys are f@%$ing crazy, you guys are f#&!ing crazy", and then he made chuck take the .45 in case there were bears stalking us for our bag of peanuts, cause there are a lot bears above treeline, on mt rose, (secretly i like that he is so worried, mary does the same thing, so does pete's mom, my parents never seemed to care, maybe it was because Andrew was off riding across the country or living in Thailand, go figure)) So we started up the trail a little heavier than we would have liked, we hit the top at maybe 1 in the morning. The stars were absolutely breathtaking and the conversation covered many different topics. We planned on waking up for the sunrise. I tried this too when i did it a while back. For some reason it just doesn't really happen. Chuck said he got some pictures of it and then went back to sleep. It was super windy up there all night but i didn't really feel cold until right before sun up or so. We headed on down, born again from our night on the mountain, and emotional, (wait, i don't mean that, i don't think about emotions, i don't want to be emo, pete sent this to all of us, i don't want to know how he found it and why he felt it necessary to share with the rest of us) mental, and physical rebirth.