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| - I successfully tricked my friend into doing this hike, telling her it was fine for people who don't exercise. Let me preface this by saying we're young, healthy, twenty-somethings. Although neither of us are hardcore hikers (c'mon, we wore our normal sneakers and jeans), we managed to gasp our way to the top in the middle of a rain shower (which makes rocks very slippery).
The first part of the course is what I would consider a hike: walking up a path. Eventually "walking" turns into "climbing" and the "path" turns into a maze of boulders. We overheard people on their way down saying that blue paint continued to mark the way to go on the rocks, and we followed them the rest of our way up.
I won't lie, it's a challenging hike, and my quads were very sore the next day. But it's doable if you don't have any major injuries and you have a go-getter attitude. Note: we did this hike in 50-degree weather and still needed about 24 ounces of water each. Gloves would have been helpful, as there is definite rock-scaling involved. The view at the top is beautiful, and climbing down is just as challenging, if not more so, than climbing up!
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