YOUR'RE TAKING US WHERE? OR-NEVER WALK WITH A GUY WHO CLIMBS ICE WALLS FOR FUN

We were all excited to be going on a "hike" with the group-or at least most of them.
Walt had a plan-so we took off to Glacier-and again took that road that goes to the sun.I had no idea what was in store for me that day-otherwise I would have not been able to do it!the "walk" turned out to be a walk alright-a walk straight up Mt.Oberlin. I could not believe where Walt kept pointing-I kept thinking(hoping) that he was just being Walt and was kidding-not. We kept climbing-and climbing,I kept whining-and they kept saying "you can do it"-so I kept doing it-the scenery was awesome-it was a perfect day-sunny, warm and so clear-I know there were no clouds-because I was UP high enough that I would have felt them! This really has to be the most scary thing I have done-but so cool now its done! I finally had to quit-just short of the summit-I was feeling so dizzy from the elevation(we climbed from about 6000ft to over 86000ft in less than two miles-I did not feel safe climbing any higher,Mike stayed with me-he could have just left the bear spray, but that is my Mike-we just sat and drank water, and gazed out over the area where we had just been walking-way,way way down. After a bit, we decided to start heading down. the down was so steep-and all shale(slippery) I was not looking forward to it at all. Turns out it was not so bad-you just had to kind of go down sideways-works muscles that you did not know about-Mike told me not to look out ahead-just down in front of me-he was right-I looked out once-not good-we were sooo high up still! Finally we made it to semi level ground. I was once again able to start enjoying the scenery!
It was a good walk back to the visitors center-and along the way we saw several bighorn sheep-they are soo huge! We never saw a bear, although we did see some scat(that is a fancy term for bear poop-for you non-Montanans) We sat for a bit at the center-the rest of our group came along shortly,we were all glad to see each other alive! While we were waiting-I went into the center to get the specifics of how far we hiked,and how high we climbed-the ranger said,when I told her we had hiked the Oberlin trail-"that is not a designated trail,that is mountain climbing!" So,be careful who you hike with-and if they climb ice walls for fun-well you had better just go on that hike!! in the pic of the mountain from the parking lot at the visitors center-t last place on top where you can see grass-that is where we were.the rest of the group went all the way to the top-amazing!

the pics are just different scenes along our hike-behind the group photo are mountain goats-all over the walls by the falls-amazing!