mt. sherman

all summer i have been dying to climb a fourteener. i have been wanting to do it on a weekday when it is less crowded...but apparently most people have normal jobs and have to work. i finally convinced my little sister to do one the day before she started school. i woke up at 3:30am...got to my parents house at 4 to pick her up and she was all ready to go. my mom woke up too and as i was looking up directions my mom all the sudden remembers that my sister has some 5 hour orientation thing for school that starts at 7am. seriously? i tried talking her out of going, but as a the new girl starting her sophomore year at a school called ralston valley...she wanted to be as prepared as possible (its seems that schools ending with the word 'valley' the girls can be a little more uh...stuck up...ha).
needless to say we all went back to bed.
my little sister still owes me a 14er...but in the mean time one of my best friends evie came to town last sunday. she is currently in med school and is spending six months traveling around to different hospitals for rotations. i was pumped that one of them was in colorado!! she was able to stay at my house all week and although i was at work for most of it, we did get to go to the cheesecake factory, celebrate erins birthday, and hike a fourteener. we decided to do mt. sherman, we heard it was easy and i was certain that the term 'easy' is relative. climbing any huge mountain is a challenge and thats one of the reasons why i love it! the books said it would take 8 hours...and well it took less than four! maybe there was a harder routt or something...but we felt a little jipped. i mean it was a great hike and the view from the top is never disappointing, but we may need to hike another one next week...