First Hike up Slaughter Ridge

WEDNESDAY JUNE 18TH 2014

Jesse and I had a couple days before we started work after getting into Cooper Landing on June 17th so we decided to take a day to ourselves and hike. Get our legs moving after sitting in the car for 60+ hours!

The views are absolutely amazing, breathtaking, beautiful, incredible; Something I have never seen with my own two eyes in real life before. It literally looks like you are staring at one big painting.

And yes momma, I did have my bear bells on that you made me;) And I made Jesse wear some too! Ha... I thought it was silly at first but as we began to get into a very thin trail with bushes on either side of us, my heart began pounding a little faster and I then decided they weren't loud enough just on my wrists so I took them off and began shaking them! :p 

The first view point we came to on the trail. I thought this was beautiful till I got to the top.

That's not just a wall, but the trail! We were practically rock climbing some of this stuff. Locals around here run this and consider it to be the "easy" mountain around here. Meanwhile I huffed and puffed my butt up the "little" mountain!

I didn't think it was possible after seeing the first view point but the farther up the mountain we got, the more beautiful the views became.

The last few hills/walls to climb before getting to the top :)

We made it!!!!

Heading back down.. And all I could think was, "this mountain puts Mt. Pisgah to shame!" Haha

A PERFECT way to start out day one in Alaska this summer ♥