The hike itself was indescribable to me in how it was. Not undescribable as in awestruck, I just don’t know how to generally state what its was like, the whole thing was still fun though. It was a great place to socialize and joke around, for instance me and someone else were making “Yee” puns. These are puns where any sound that is or sounds like “ee” or “ie” and et cetera is replaced with saying “yee.” An example would be say memory. It would be said as “memor-yee”. Weird, but fun. A little later later, we got up higher into the “boreal zone,” a region of the mountain where it starts to get cold (a great example of regions, and moving from one region to another). There we stopped to sketch a nice valley of hills that were below. As we got further up the mountain, we were able to see the tip Firescrew, also the old firewatch tower that was up there, and by that time we had noticed the white scratches and stripes in the rock. While one stripe we found was actually just quartz, but anyways the explanation we were given is that they were “glacial striations,” formed by ice and such that slid down the mountain many years ago. That was pretty cool to think about, how it happened so long ago. Continuing upwards, the peak of Firescrew became fully viewable, and I also noticed the steep incline we had to do to reach the top of Cardigan. Obscure detail, there were also some red-berried trees that added nice color contrast. After enough delaying, we had to climb to the summit. And so we did. It wasn’t actually as hard as expected, but it was still quite the calf workout. With a final push, I had reached the top! Ok, the rest of this needs to go pretty quick, as this is becoming unnecessarily long. So, short version, we hiked the “saddle” over to firescrew, moving into a new region, did a sketch there, hiked down Firescrew. To pass the time, I ended up telling someone the whole Hunger Games Book 1 story, and according to audible.com, I saved them 11 hours of reading. And just like that we had gotten off the trail, and reached the lodge. After dinner, we did stories, and then I went straight up to bed after a long day.