Hesten Hike

Today we woke up to sunny and gorgeous! Sunrise is getting later and later so we actually catch some of it. We got ready to go and headed over for our hike for the day, Hesten. Now I thought this was going to be a very difficult hike even though it wasn’t very long as all the reviews I read made it seem really difficult/we might not make it that far…but it ended up being one of the easier hikes we have done! We started walking and it was gorgeous, but when we were most of the way up it started rain/snow/sleeting! It wasn’t windy so it was okay, but then the trail got very steep and muddy and I was literally sliding backwards down the hill so we were almost at the ridge at that point and there were no good places to stop so we got up to the ridge, ate a granola bar, and headed back down since you couldn’t see much as the clouds were getting low. Even with that it was one of the easiest hikes we have done. It was so cold and wet on the ridge we were freezing! But luckily once we got down a little bit it was much warmer. The way down wasn’t that bad as you could see a path that wasn’t so muddy which was good. I thought once we get past this steep bit it will be fine as it was going up…but the rain and sleet made the lower part a muddy mess! Less steep so just sliding all over the place but not falling, but it wasn’t like that going up.

We got back to the car at noon (lunchtime) so we headed on to a viewpoint to see if we could see anything and to relax a bit as we didn’t really take a break on the hike. The rain/sleet/hail kept rolling through, but finally seemed to stop around 3 so we headed off to do some chores.Read more