picture of me on a mountain
I went backpacking over the summer for 2 weeks in New Mexico. This is a picture of me and my crew on top of Baldy Mountain, the highest peak we would achieve, on the final full day of our trek. It was a long journey that covered well over 100 miles and this was the final goal. The trip ended on a triumphant bang as we reached the summit of the final obstacle between us and our trip home. We had marched along for days with the mountain getting ever closer in our sights. It would loom behind us at every campsite we made. It found its way into the backgrounds of pictures we took just 3 days into the journey. At one point someone let us look through their telescope and we were able to see other crews climbing the mountain. Though it looked so far and arduous, we knew that would be us in mere days. We had come a long way and faced many obstacles (running out of water in the middle of a dry ranch being the most daunting) but we still had one to go: climbing Baldy. We felt ourselv...