HUMBOLDT PEAK
Trent and Mike make it to the top!
Trent and Mike make it to the top!
Before sunrise and after sunset, the mountains can be a beautiful red color like this. It is called "Alpenglow." This is what they saw when they got up and started their climb.
...and this is the same mountain a little later after sunrise.
Starting the climb up...
There is light snow on the ground.
Mike is climbing up ahead...
...and here comes Trent.
Some of the climbing is more difficult...
Almost there...
"I MADE IT!"
I was so surprised when my phone rang shortly after noon on the day of the climb. I could see that it was Trent, and right away I was worried that something had happened. He was supposed to be up on the mountain! And he was! "My phone battery is almost dead," he told me. "I'm tired, but I made it!"
Looking out at other peaks...
What an amazing view!
O God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,
who formed the mountains by your power...
Psalm 65:5-6
(Thanks to Mike for the pictures of Trent!)
...and this is the same mountain a little later after sunrise.
Starting the climb up...
There is light snow on the ground.
Mike is climbing up ahead...
...and here comes Trent.
Some of the climbing is more difficult...
Almost there...
"I MADE IT!"
I was so surprised when my phone rang shortly after noon on the day of the climb. I could see that it was Trent, and right away I was worried that something had happened. He was supposed to be up on the mountain! And he was! "My phone battery is almost dead," he told me. "I'm tired, but I made it!"
Looking out at other peaks...
What an amazing view!
O God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,
who formed the mountains by your power...
Psalm 65:5-6
(Thanks to Mike for the pictures of Trent!)
15 comments:
Beautiful pictures Jeanette. Amazing climbers. Thanks for posting these.
These are beautiful. Breathtaking.
I love how the mountains change colors. Isn't God great?
Much more soothing to my soul than your last pic! ;-)
By the way, since you seem to be attracting the tractor people, I actually have a front end loader story. I'll try to come back later when I have more time and share it. Or maybe I'll save it for my next Coffee Talk . . . Tell your loader friends thanks for the idea!
I'm glad you like the pictures, Nancy and Renae! You know I would never be able to climb like that (understatement), so having pictures is the next best thing.
I took out some of those unrelated comments! I think they were talking on here about selling stuff to each other !!
I'm looking forward to that front end loader story...
Yeah, I get a lot of those spam comments. They are hoping your readers will click on your link and buy their products. I just delete them. Probably they picked up on one of your past posts with a tractor in it, and thought maybe you drew a tractor crowd! Most of those are computer generated with a generic comment.
I've gotten coffee sellers on mine. ;-)
That's what Trent told me, too. I don't like to have the comment moderation enabled on here, and I haven't had too much trouble, but if it gets to be a problem, I'll do that.
Coffee sellers, huh?! If they only knew what that extra cup really is!
Beautiful, beautiful pictures!
Ohhhhhh, Trent! The pictures are beautiful. They take my breath away! When I heard you were hiking, for some reason I thought it was on level ground!
I'm so glad you enjoy the climbing. Be careful-oh!
Love Grandma
Well Trent,
You would truly be amused to have been a fly on the wall while Grandma was wording her comment!
Between gasps of anxiety, she was trying to get in words of encouragement ... we hovered over the whole thing for an enormous amount of time before it was done! You know how heights and loose boulders on a slope get Grandma's blood pressure up! :)
Your photography is truly amazing! I especially like the last one your Mom had as a header -- it was hard to know how she could get a better one ... but the new header has shown me that there is a lot more out there of equal beauty!
Well done! Keep climbin'!
I do think Trent got at least a half dose of the family caution gene, so tell Grandma that he does not take foolish risks--he never has, even when he was little! I also reassure myself that he is also one very smart man and will not be doing any dumb things!
I'm so glad all of you love the pictures as much as I do!
Ha! What a funny comment, Jeanette! Kinza is cut from the same cloth! No risks! She would like to venture out at times and displays an edge of irritation that I hold her back because of MY cautious nature! I'm sure that is true to a point but there are ways that she chooses the road herself! It extends also to the area of music. I doubt we'll ever fight over the volume control on music and even more so, it won't be heavy metal! If anything, she likes to turn down the volume that I set and this Friday she is opting to stay home from youth because they are going to a "Christian" Rock Concert that comes with the recommendation to throw a pair of earplugs in your pocket just in case! Don't misunderstand -- she would totally get into the "social energy" at something like that but the loudness of the music and her disgust for that fact that it is categorized as "music" will keep her away -- at least, for now! I sometimes fear the "social" will one day win out -- especially if there are "hunks" on the stage! :) Mademoiselle has always had an appreciation of a true "hunk"! Dear, dear!
I'm sure Renae will agree with the "Dear, dear!" (Shades of the future, Renae!)
Trent has been attending the Citizens' Police Academy. It is about 12 Wednesday nights of training at the local police department headquarters intended to familiarize the citizens with what the police officers do and how they do it. Last Wednesday, whoever was leading the class asked if there was anyone there who had never been stopped or pulled over by the police. Trent was somewhat chagrined when he discovered that he was the only one to raise his hand!! He said everyone was shocked that he had never been pulled over!! I asked him if that made him feel good, and he said, "It made me feel as if I should not have raised my hand!" Careful good driver who never expects to be pulled over! (another aspect of our family caution gene!)
Another "dear, dear"! How I wish I could be among those who wish they hadn't put up their hand! I am sore to say that I have a heavy foot on the gas and have had the cops stop me at least three times for that. Then there was the time that I had had my birthday but hadn't put that new sticker on my little plate. Then there was the time when I didn't quite see that pedestrian in the intersection as soon as I should have seen him and I had to slow down and swerve a teensie! Of course, if he hadn't stopped to shake his fist at me, I would have been well out of his way and it wouldn't have had such drama that the policeman who happened to be coming the other direction and saw it all wouldn't have had to make that swooping U-turn and draw everyone else's attention to the fact that I was being pulled over which added greatly to my consternation because, being a Hodgson, if we make a mistake, may there be no one else to notice since the humiliation which follows hounds us for decades as the most embarrassing moments of our lives!
Ha ha ha! Carol-Ann, you have hit the nail exactly on the head about how we suffer when caught in a mistake!!! Oh, oh, oh...who gave us that gene, I would just like to know!
I'm grinning reading about your escapades! The only thing is, your chances of getting stopped or pulled over are higher since you have to drive so much. I have been pulled over only once in my life, and that was before we had a car I could drive, and I was driving a borrowed station wagon. The owner had forgotten to change the sticker, so I got pulled over! We were within a block of the owner's house, so the policeman followed me to their house where it was all straightened out! But I remember hoping no one I knew had seen me get pulled over!
Naw Trent really is a wild and crazy guy, so go ahead and worry everyone. Ok, just kidding. I'm one of his friends, so just posting to say hi.
Nice blog Jeannette! You really have put a lot of work into it.
Hi Joe! Thanks for visiting my blog and for the nice comments! Ha ha! I think that is the first time I have ever heard "wild and crazy" to describe Trent!
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