Annalise
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Let's pack our packs and just head up there and go camping. So we, um, Probably had like 35 to 40 pounds in our packs, which was pretty heavy. The way that you get up to the trailhead is a dirt road. And you drive four and a half miles up this dirt road, kind of through the mountains. And you come out to a parking lot with a trailhead.
And then you hike like two miles through this, you know, this trail up to this shelter at the top. We... basically had to park on the highway on this little inlet and hike that whole road up because it was winter time. So they close all of those roads down.
Um, even just getting there is like 45 minutes extra because this road called bare notch road is closed down for the winter because there's just so much snow. They can't maintain it. So we park at the parking lot and we get our packs out and we just started hiking up the road and it was a pretty long hike. It probably took us four hours to get to the trailhead.
So it's quite the haul, you know, and with all that weight, you're just like, Holy, Holy shit. You know, like, I don't even know if I could do it, but I was crushing it. I was just going for it. And we took a break at the trailhead and just like ate some lunch and hung out for a minute and then got back up and decided to do the trail up to the shelter at the top.
Like another thing to note was that I was terrified. I could not shake this feeling. Like as soon as I got onto that road of someone just watching me it was really just this eerie feeling of being watched. I mean, I almost don't even know how else to describe it. It was like, just this presence. I was, you know, looking down at the, the snow on the road.
Cause there was just probably a previous snow's ton of snow pack on it. And there was like deer, you know, footprints, moose, a bear. I think we saw at one point. So that was a little unsettling. Cause you know, there's a bear, clearly there's bears up here, but I've never really ran into one. And I'm like hoping that this won't be the day that it happens. Um, But yeah, we really come to find out.
My partner was feeling the exact same feeling, but we didn't say anything because we didn't want to freak each other out. We just wanted to get up there. But it was just like someone was in the trees watching us or something. I definitely am comfortable in the wilderness. I actually, you know, I think it was the this local trail by myself completely. And I did it every single day for 35 days.
So I had been, you know, hiking completely by myself with no problem. It was strange to feel that way. I kind of just tried to sum it up to, I'm doing this crazy hard hike. I got a ton of weight. Um, it's winter. Like I, once I get up there, I got to have everything that I need, you know, to survive three, four days, five days, however long we stay. So I just kind of kept trucking.
And once you keep your head down and you're just kind of going, you don't, it kind of fades away a little bit because you're just determined on getting from point A to point B. So we get to the trailhead and we're hiking up now the actual trail from the parking lot at the top of the road up to the shelter. And this was really intimidating because there was no footprints, no tracks whatsoever.
And there was a really thick snow on this trail. So when we were hiking up, you're kind of postholing your feet through the snow, which means like there's basically like a foot of snow, two feet of snow, and there's a hard crust over the top, but it's not enough to support your weight. So your feet will just kind of punch right through it.
You have to be really careful because there's big boulders and rocks on this and you can just stick your foot through and then twist an ankle or something. So we were really taking our time going up there, trying to be careful of that. That was a lot of work. You know, you're sweating at that point and it's cold out and you're just trying to kind of get up there. So we took our time.
It probably took another two hours just to hike that two miles up there. And we get to the top and, you know, we were just like, we did it. You know, we made it up here and we were starting to just put our packs down and stretch out a little bit. And I brought two nips of Jack Daniels whiskey.
So we broke those out and we did a victory shot and we just started unpacking and got our tent set up, pulled out our sleeping bags. You know, we had our firewood going. We had some freeze dry meals. We were heating up and we felt really, really good at that point. But again, I couldn't get over this feeling of someone being up there.
And like I said, my partner, the entire time was feeling the exact same way, but we just weren't communicating it because you don't want to let your... your fears kind of show in those moments. Cause what are we going to do? Hike six hours out? You know, we just got up here. We can't freak ourselves out right now. So we were just like, okay, we're going to, you know, hang out.
We did our shot of whiskey. Let's cool down. But I could not. I could not leave my partner's side. I was right there the entire time, just kind of following him, which isn't like me at all. I'm usually like, oh, I'll go down to the bear hang. I'll hang it. I'll throw the bear hang over the pole and hang all the food and help you find firewood. You go that way. I'll go this way.
But I could not do that. And it was so overwhelming to the point that I made him go to the bathroom with me in the privy because I was like, do not leave me alone. I cannot be alone right now. Which, thank God, great guy. Absolutely did it. No question. And, you know, we just were hanging out at that point. And this is the thing is that the sun goes down like three o'clock up there in that time.
So you do not have a lot of daylight. You got to get your firewood. Then you got to have your flashlights ready to go. So the sun kind of started setting and we decided to start a fire. So we started a fire after we ate dinner. We're just kind of hanging out there.
And this is funny because I really don't tell this a lot when I talk to my family and friends about this, because it just all felt like too much. But that first night we did have something strange happen to us, which I, You know, we were just kind of hanging out at the shelter. You know, you're not really talking.
You're just chilling out, enjoying the whole essence of the area, trying to alleviate stress from back home, you know, everything going on with COVID-19. And as we're sitting in front of the fire, we started to hear this sound that sounded like children screaming. And... I kind of assumed it was coyotes, but something didn't seem right about the sound.
It fluctuated in really strange ways that I've never experienced, you know, being here when coyotes were howling or finding something to kill or something like that. Again, it started like children were screaming, like, And then it turned into about 20 of those. And then there was a little bit of yipping involved.
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