Today was a long day. We got up at 7:00, and for breakfast we had orange and Hot Chocolate. I was definitely not full. We then left for the peak. It was a long hard climb up very steep hills. We finally got all the way up to the top — 15,000 ft. We got some of the snow from the top, got some fruit punch crystals and had slushies on the mountain in 40° weather with 30 m.p.h. winds. Imagine snow on the 4th of July! We hiked 13 miles altogether. When we got back to celebrate independence day we each got two sparklers. Big wow!
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I remember this day well, especially the snow cones on the peak. It was sooo uncomfortable, as cold and windy as it was. But I was pretty sure that Buffalo Peaks was no 15,000 feet, since most of the (much more challenging) peaks in the area (Mts. Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale) are all only 14,000 feet. Sure enough, some Internet searching showed that the higher of the two Buffalo Peaks is a mere 13,300 feet.
All punctuation and spelling has been retained precisely as I wrote it 32 years ago at age 12.
What's this all about? This is what it's all about.
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