Continued...the+death+hike

====The "death hike", is a brutal hike that me, my dad, my sister, my brother, and my Dad's friend took last summer near our cabin in the mountains. Nobody really died, but it was pretty miserable. We take this hike every single year. Except every single year, this trip turns out differently, but this hike was much different, This hike was definitely the worst and the hardest hike I have ever took. It started out at the place we start all of our big death hikes, in a sun flower patch.==== ====Once we start getting just a little bit up the mountain, (About 100 ft,) Its starts getting really steep. We went through about 3 hours of going up a really steep mountain, and jumping over huge rocks and loges.==== ====When we reached the top we when happy to get a big rest, and eat the rest of the beef jerky.When we are at the top we can see all the mountains below us and the whole town of Kremmling. Going down is usually not the hardest part but this time, that changed. We decided to go down a different route and meet my mom at a road in Kremmling, so we started heading down the other side off the mountain to go through with our plan.==== ====But about 10 minutes after we left the top it started to rain, thunder and lightning, so we went over to a low tree to take cover and stay away from the lightning. After being there for almost half an hour, we got up about to leave, thinking that this storm has probably ran its course, but right when we got up, the real storm started, but we still left our tiny protection of the tree, to try and get home to our nice warm cabin.==== ====After an hour or so, we got to a little dirt road and started to follow that. We were tired and hungry and our water was all gone. And once the dirt road split into 2 ways, we saw a big herd of cows across the field in front of us, (by now the rain had stopped), and if wanted to get home we had to cross that field. It wasn't as easy as I thought is would be, because the grass was mushy and wet from the rain storm, and I almost got stuck in it a couple of times. Plus we had to stay out of the way of all of those cows. And, it was for sure that no one had a chance to keep there shoes not soaked and gross.==== ====After getting past the cows, it was a few minutes of easy road, Until we got to another field, going down that was about a mile until the road that my mom was going to pick us up in. Even though we could see my mom and the van, we still had a little bit to go. We hoped a couple electric fences, and when I finally decided I have enough energy to run the last 100 yards, I ran as fast as I could to the van. After thinking back to all of the memories of that hike, I can say that is the best hiking experience I have ever had. I might do that hike again, I just need a couple months to recover from the last one.====