My First Real Hike

Well, had some down time this afternoon and was feeling good so I took off from the house and headed UP!  There is a good size mountain directly behind us, not sure how tall it is, but it's up there far enough for a midwesterner like me.  To make a long story short the accent took a little more than an hour and about 40min to hike down.  The view is always breath taking (or maybe that was the altitude getting to my lungs), and it just makes you feel great to make it up to the top...well almost.  From the road the 'top' is not actually the top.  Once I got on the rocks that appeared to be the top of the mountain I found out it was far from it.  Probably another hour hike to make it all the way and not what I could handle this early on.  Here is a pic of me at the highest point I made it to.

The house is down there in the first neighborhood.  Trust me when I say it's a LONG ways down!

The actual top is this: