Anual Hike

I bet that you all noticed that I've been gone for a while. I forgot to tell you that it was again time for my anual hike. Every year I gather up enough food and water to last me a couple of days, and I hike on up the mountain. This year was a good hike, even though it was a bit windy. I usually take the trail up in a couple of days to give myself time to aclimate. When I reach the top, I don't stay long, because it gets really cold up there. I hiked halfway back down this year (usually it's a little bit more, and the next day I set up a camp near the base of the mountain. On the last day I hiked out, but would you believe it, it took me longer to get back to the library than it did to get up the mountain. I picked up some cash on the way, though. Wow. I'm really tired, so I'm going to go sleep now.