Road Trip 2026, Day Ten

the hike from hell wins

first with a grizzly loping

(who turned into woods)

then the sunrise view

of the flawless Lake Kathleen

before the ascent

the cloud at the peak?

kind of ruined my dream view

until the descent

the descent from hell

with steep scree the whole way down

even dog is stressed

how to recover?

book hotel three hours down

this horrible road

Silver Anniversary Trip, Day Twelve

ten thousand stone steps
slippery at dawn, at noon
as mist never stops
ten thousand reasons 
to be afraid of this hike,
yet we keep trekking
ten thousand peak views
all in different shades of light
just like our marriage
ten thousand questions 
when we married at twenty
look how far we’ve come