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__The Beautiful Scenic Echo Lake__

The pond glistened in the sunlight, and the leaves seemed to dance on the branches, because of the gentle breeze flowing in and out. All that you could see for what seemed a million miles was the beautiful green trees and the dark brown dirt that covered our trail. "Wow this is really beautiful." I thought.

It was a sunny, but surprisingly not hot day up in the mountains. It was actually a bit chilly, especially in the shade.

I was still half a sleep when we started our hike in a mild trot. But 10 minutes later or so we stopped and had lunch at one of the last nice picnic tables. PB&J, apples, and muffins was the delicacy we enjoyed that morning. After our tummies were almost stuffed full with our lunch we began hiking again, but this time a bit slower for two reasons, one we were full, and two the mountain began to incline. The hike slowly became harder and harder, well at least for me, since my legs aren't as long as most adults. But, like I usually do I kept going with a little whining to my mom here and there, "Mom how much longer?"

Once we had hiked for an hour or so we saw little piles of snow. It seemed all too soon that the snow started to cover our trail. Next thing I knew we were slipping and sliding all over the place, because the snow had obviously been stepped on not only by us, so most of the snow was actually slush.

Finally we caught our selfs and began to hike again.

The snow seemed to saunter away, and then it was just dirt on our trail. We could all tell that we were beginning to reaching the top. And thats exactly what we did, we reached the top. It was about 3 o'clock when we reached our destination. The air smelled clear, and the sunny was shining.

We hiked to these huge boulders, they must have been almost fifteen feet high. I scurried up the bolder like a little mouse, and thats what I looked like, a mouse up on top of that huge boulder. The view was breath taking, you could see all the mountains that were miles away. I then carefully went down the boulder like a spider, I was on all fours.

We climbed on many boulders that day, and one of them we ate our cupcakes on(we were glad to eat the cupcakes after we had been lugging them along all day). After I filled my mom's backpack up with rocks, we slowly climbed down from the bolder and started our hike down the mountain.

The hike down was pretty much the same, except we stopped by the gift shop and got a few souvenirs.

At last I could see our white car in the distance. It had never looked so wonderful before. I almost felt like running, but I knew that would only make me more tired. I could imagine the comfy tan chairs that filled the car.

Finally we reached the car and I slumped down in the seat. "Mom" I laughed, "that was the best hike ever!"