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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bsowa1029, post: 1425408, member: 34652&quot;]I forgot to add the quick story about my photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing too riveting. Just a quick hiking trip I did with a buddy of mine. I got the idea one day of how awesome it would be to see the sunrise from the top of a mountain so I asked my friend if that was something he&#039;d be interested in doing. He said he would and was actually really excited to do it, which surprised me at the time, but now looking back on it I don&#039;t know why that would have surprised me.</p><p><br /></p><p>So we planned to do the hike on a Saturday and on that particular day sunrise was at 6:52 AM. So i figured to be up at the summit a few minutes before sunrise we would have to leave my house at 2:30 in the morning to get the the trail head at 4 AM and allow ourselves 15 minutes to get everything together and do a quick stretch before we needed to hit the trail. That would allow us about 2hrs 45mins for the hike, which I thought would be plenty because I had hiked the same trail a few weeks earlier with my brother and it took us 2hrs and 30mins to get to the summit at a pretty leisurely pace. Well, my friend wasn&#039;t in as good of shape as my brother and I. We started our hike a few minutes ahead of schedule, at 4:10 exactly, but it took us 2hrs and 47mins to get above treeline which was at 6:57, 5 minutes after sunrise.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though we weren&#039;t at the summit for sunrise, our first glimpse of the sun was still amazing. Treeline on the mountain we hiked is 98% of the way up, so we were pretty much at the summit when we got the first glimpse of the sun 5 minutes after it had rose so it was still right at the horizon line. In total I think we stayed at the top for about half an hour because it was such an amazing sight and a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky and the air was warm and comfortable.</p><p><br /></p><p>The picture I submitted was taken probably 15 minutes after we got to the summit, so 20-25 minutes after sunrise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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