When I was a young man about the age of 9 I remember going on a hiking trip with my family to North Caralina. It was a very important experience to me because I learned that day that if I put my mind to something I could finish it even if I thought there was no way that I could do it. And all the odds are against you, you know that if you just put your heart and soul into something that you can accomplish anything.
I thought that our trip up a trail in North Carolina was going to be a normal hike. I thought wrong. We decided to go up Grays first. The mountains were both extremely long and steep. We had to four-wheel drive to get to us to the start of the trailhead. We had to go 3,000 feet up in elevation up the side of the large mountain. We started out and it wasn't that bad a little bit of rocks here and there, but when we got to the base of the mountain there wasn’t a trail in sight; all there was to see was the millions upon millions of rocks on this mountain also all I could see when I looked up the side was pain and tiresome. The only way up Grays was up through a rock slide area on the side where we came to when we arrived. For every step that I took I would fall down six inches to a foot due to the fact that the rocks were not very sturdy on the trail that we were blazing. Every time I fell I could feel my feet slipping out from underneath me and the rocks rolling slowly but surely down the side of the mountain. I began to think that it would be better to climb in snow so that we could have that very little amount of traction that we desperately needed. The sun was shining brightly, and we could feel its heat beating on our bodies cooking our insides as we challenged this mountain with all of our might. We had to take our coats off and put them around our waists because the heat was getting worse as the day moved out. At the time and there wasn't a cloud in the sky all there was, was the sun and that’s it. The trip was three miles long, and for every...