Dad really wanted to hike table mountain again (he did it as a 12 year old boy). He knew it would be a tough hike, Tyson did some research and found that it was to be a 12 mile round trip and and there was a 4000 foot elevation gain, most of which was at the end, near the summit. So on Monday July 5th dad, Jon (Meisha's husband), Tyson, Gray and Ky decided to go.
They got away late, it had been raining so they wanted to make sure the weather was good. They left camp at about 930 am with water, snacks, a MRE each (thanks to Reed Jana's fiancee) and some extra clothes, planning to take about 6 hours.
Well.....Meisha and I got everybody headed home, clean up the campground, drove to Targee and back and prepared dinner, Tin Foil dinners. At 5 pm no sign of them... I decided that they wouldn't want to wait for tin foils dinners so I fried bacon and fried potatoes, thinking we would have hamburgers, at 6 pm I decided they wouldn't want to wait to cook hamburgers, because they would be hungry, so I made a meatloaf. At 830pm it was starting to get dark and I decided that they wouldn't want to wait for veggies, and it was getting dark, so I cooked the veggies. And we waited...and waited at about 930 they pulled in. After 16 miles round trip, they were exhausted and hungry and tired. Their clothes were wet and they were sore. They had lost the trail in the snow and had taken the long way. They hadn't taking the time to eat since they left and moved fast all day. So they had a warm dinner and all went to bed. The said the view was amazing, the views of the clouds were awesome, they saw a moose and had a great time. They all said it was worth it.
Ky had worn long pants, yes wide legs and falling off cause the waist was too big on the way up I guess he decided he was too hot and cut off the legs with a pocket knife. It looked like Daisy Duke shorts when he pulled them up to his waist.
11 years ago
