On the Saturday I went with a friend (Charlene) and her niece to check out Alouette lake. Charlene had busted her her ankle real bad and had a moon boot on so she was pretty stoked to get out of the house. We failed pretty bad at finding the lake. We managed to find a womens prison, a dirt bike track and a timber yard place. We bailed on the lake and headed back out to the main road to hunt for a new picnic spot. We managed to stumble upon a place called Cliff Falls which turned out to be pretty awesome. Charlene hobbled down to the picnic area ok and we ate delicious brownies. We then went for a wander and found the falls. There wasn't really any cliffs but the creek kinda followed a an old lava flow thing which made for a couple of cool photos:
On Sunday a few people from work were going up the Chief so I decided to tag along. I also took Charlenes niece as well. I didn't really know what I was getting into. When we got to the trail head it dawned on me that as she was only 16 I was kinda responsible for a semi-child thing. I discovered that she didn't really know her own fitness to well. I asked if she was fit enough to hit all three peaks and she said yes. Then after walking for about 10min she was absolutely gassed and tells me sometimes she has problems with her lungs. I gave her a puff of my inhaler and that seemed to sort her out but she certainly wasn't capable of of doing three peaks! We made up to second peak with no worries though and took a couple of pics.
Then we decided that there was enough hours in the day to head over to third peak which I was pretty stoked about because I hadn't been there before. On the way there was some pretty cool cliffs and drop offs. All up it was a pretty long day for an unfit 16 year old but we all went and burgers for dinner and freaked Charlene out at all the shinanigans her niece got up to when she was left alone in my supervision.
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