McCauley Mountain

Folks, we have liftoff! We have climbed THOUSANDS of feet (literally) and are in the MOUNTAINS. Look at those trees! Smell that delicious alpiney oxygen! Is it better than regular oxygen? Yes!

We scheduled a "day off" after our first big climbing day during which we were simply going to move from one campground to another, but one thing led to another and we ended up biking 8 miles through some steep hills. AGAIN. Our second day off in a row which turned out to be fake news. We did eventually find some time to look at a pretty lake in some Adirondack chairs, which aren't like, the most comfortable, but are everywhere around here (weird). We also already saw one bear in our first campground, which was a little disconcerting. The conversation with the ranger at our second campground wasn't heartening:

Ranger: this is BEAR country. We DEFINITELY have bears. Put your food in your CAR. LOCK your car.

Us: um, we don't have a car.

Ranger: oh, well, I wouldn't worry about it then.

Us: We saw one last night at the campground 5 miles away.

Ranger: oh...yeah...I mean, they don't come HERE too much...

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