seattle, wa. the emerald city, portal to the pacific, whatever you want to call it. awesome music, good people, beautiful surroundings, and great food and beer.
it was amazing. 3 ridiculous days of great music. highlights were nine inch nails, deadmau5, and girl talk. awesome moment when girl talk played you make me wanna shout. LETS GO BUFFALO! got to do some serious moshing and crowdsurfing. so much fun and sort of addicting.
so much fun and wow, what a venue. maddie, marissa and myself even contributed to someones "get home" fund by buying mixed drinks from them outside haha. but yea, pretty magnificent place.
while maddie and marissa visited we went on a hike i've wanted to do for awhile. its located out by leavenworth. so we headed out there, hit up the 59er diner on the way and then hit up the trailhead. the hike was beautiful. started off pretty easy and then started to get a little steeper towards the end. took us about 4 hours and because we didn't start until almost 5pm the snow was pretty soft which definitely had us hip deep at times. we got up to the lake right before sunset and set up camp. met and hung out with two guys who were already up there. good people and had some fun talking to them. we slept in a bit and woke up to a blue bird day with it being about 80 degrees which was surprising as it was definitely below freezing when we went to bed. but yea this was awesome and pretty unforgettable.
took me about 7 hours round trip and its about a 4000 ft elevation gain, got pretty snowy, def happy i had crampons on the way down. started a lil late but made it down just at sunset. its a cool climb but it is pretty steep and doing it with a 60 lbs pack on really helped to kick my ass. the view was worth it, also, kinda weird story but ran into this one girl who was right behind me most of the way up but then decided to head down pretty quickly cause it was getting late, she ended up getting lost and after blowing my whistle on my pack for the fun of it a few times, i got back to my car to find a note on it from her thanking me for blowing my whistle which helped her get back to trail. pretty cool.