Journal entry 12

Continuing my post about my red castle lake trip/hike. The next day we decide to just take a day and hike up really quick. We did hear that it was about 30 miles round trip, but we didn't really register how far that really was. As we started out, we felt pretty good, but after going about 10 miles, we were starting to get tired. We felt like we were getting delirious already when we reached the top at 15 miles and the thought of heading back down felt like it was a daunting task. All the way back down, we had to talk a lot to each other to distract ourselves from the pain in our legs. It felt like it took forever but we finally got back down after 30 miles and went back to camp. We decided to never do that again, but in retrospect i'm glad we did it!