Cascades

Today I was up and walking by 8:30, the cascade mountains lay ahead, the altitude was killing me, had to stop nearly every 50 yards to breath, got 18 miles in all up hill...whew..killer, I had at 8 to 10 people stop and tell me they didn't think it was safe for me to try the 2nd peak or to camp out on the 2nd peak, as there was a fair amount of snow pretty cold, and a chance of snow/rain in the overcast, the last person to stop was a man, who had set out to meet me, he too had done a similar walk, I spoke with him for a bit, but what everyone had told me was weighing on me, I asked him for a ride over the next peak...I'm so happy I did...it was pretty snowy for sure, and looked like it would snow or rain any min.  Lesson learned on this trip, doesn't matter what anyone thinks, it only matters what I think, which is my safety above all comes first.  While it was kind of the man who drove me, and I'm thankful he did,  in hind site his partying remarks...that he walked the whole thing, where unnecessary.  The walk is something I want to do for me, there's no rules, my life and my safety aren't a game...