7-19-15

Today was a much better day, weather-wise.  The rain wasn't supposed to come until noon. 

Yesterday we started at Humber Park and headed up Devil's Slide.  

Today we are going up Marion Mountain Trail instead, which is steeer (over 6mi up, instead of 8mi) 

Lots of rocky, technical trails 

Sometimes the trail was hard to follow...

Pascale and Dawn (a newbie to trails, and hadn't run more than 10mi before today) 

Absolutely gorgeous! 

Looking...just looking :) 

This picture doesn't do this justice.  Those purple flowers in the background were soooo pretty! 

Clouds coming in..

a whole bunch of campsites here 

Our only group shot for the 5 of us (we were the slower group; the others were about an hour ahead, by the time they reached the top)

About a mile from the summit, we saw Keira and Sarah descending.  They encouraged us to keep on going!  The weather was going to turn soon, but they didn't want to deny us the opportunity to summit!

Sarah gave me an extra 10oz of water...

A Hiker's Cabin!  

Annie was the first one up; she led us the whole way.  

We finally made it!!!

I was the second one up :) 

Followed by Heather! 

And then Pascale! 

(I didn't take any pics of Dawn...hmmm...but I know others did) 

NO visibility up there. 

I have a video but can't post it through the app on my phone...later :) 

After we descended the summit, things went sour.  Pascale didn't look to see where she was going and ended up circling around the summit and got lost.  

At this point in time I don't want to relocate the whole story anymore...

Search and rescuer found her before nightfall and she was going to be safe.