For my girlfriend Jill’s birthday this past Monday, three of my girlfriends and myself met at 7 am and hiked Mount Olympus. I have only been on this trail once and that was about 3 years ago, at that time we only hiked a 1/3 of the way up. But on Monday we hiked to the Summit!! Mount Olympus is a very difficult hike…in fact the last quarter of the hike is climbing boulders straight up. The base of Mount Olympus is around 4800 FT, it’s a 3 mile hike straight up to the Summit which is about 9800 FT at the top.  It was by far the most difficult hike I have ever done. Making it to the Summit and sitting up there with three of my close friends was a remarkable experience and I was so proud of all of us for accomplishing this…I truly feel that when women get together whether it be friends, sisters, mothers and daughters there really is nothing we can’t accomplish together..

This first photo below on the left is of a mailbox surrounded by rocks that sits at the top of the Summit. Inside the mailbox is a pen and notepad..every person who Summits Mt Olympus writes in their name, the date and something they may want to say of significance. It was very meaningful.

You can see the boulders that we are climbing are huge!  But then…we reach the top!! Here the girls are signing in their names…

One of the many views from the top – all of the Valley and beyond!

I encourage anyone who loves to hike to make it a goal to hike Mt Olympus, you won’t regret it!!