Hike to the top

This is me at Monarch with a bunch of new friends I met over the weekend. I'm the dorky one with the hummingbird helmet — safety first! I am also wearing Scott's jacket since we were sharing a lift ticket while trading off kids in the lodge with a few other couples. So, when it was my turn to head out on the mountain, instead of just being satisfied using the lifts, we decided to hike all the way up to the tippy top of the mountain. That experience opened up parts of my lungs that hadn't been used in years. This is possibly the only photo from the entire weekend. I could just kick myself for not making better use of the camera.