{"id":101,"date":"2012-08-08T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/mt-bierstadt-14060-feet\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:34:00","slug":"mt-bierstadt-14060-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/mt-bierstadt-14060-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Bierstadt = 14,060 Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a second big accomplishment over the weekend. I FINALLY climbed and made it to the summit of a 14ner. <\/p>\n

I have been anticipating hiking this mountain for weeks now, wondering if it was going to be possible for me to make it to the top! 7 miles and 8 hours round trip later, I can finally say that it is marked off my list! <\/p>\n

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(Standing in the parking lot looking at Mt. Bierstadt on the right.) <\/p>\n

As I began my hike up the mountain, I thought I was doing great. I was making quick progress, I felt like I had been hiking for a while, and that for sure I had made it halfway…then I rounded a bend and found out that actually I was probably just barely a quarter of the way to the top. I found at that point that I needed to pace myself, take as many breaks as I needed and just keep going. I kept hiking and made it way farther than I did the first time I tried to hike Mt. Bierstadt 3 years ago, but I finally came to a point that I just didn’t think I could go any farther. I sat down, looked at how much more I had to climb and said “it’s either right now, today that you are going to make it to the top of this mountain or it’s not going to happen”. I got up, and pushed myself the final 45 minutes to the top!<\/p>\n

As soon as I made it, the tears began. I don’t know if it was from pure exhaustion, or from reflecting on how amazing God is, and being part of his amazing creation. All I know is that this hike was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but in the end it was SO rewarding.<\/p>\n

Thinking about all the things we have been through as a couple in the past 2 years, I was reminded at had how strong I am, and how many things I can actually accomplish. After completing this, I feel like there isn’t anything I can’t do. Whatever life may throw my way in the future, I know that I am going to make it through! <\/p>\n

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(Look, I even still had a smile on my face!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a second big accomplishment over the weekend. I FINALLY climbed and made it to the summit of a 14ner. I have been anticipating hiking this mountain for weeks now, wondering if it was going to be possible for me to make it to the top! 7 miles and 8 hours round trip later, I can finally say that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.berry1.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}