I went for my first hike!!!

Apr 24, 2011

So a few weeks after I had surgery I went with some friends on a trip to Las Vegas and two of them were avid hikers.   They wanted me to go on a hike with them in Redrock Canyon, but needless to say I was still almost 400 lbs and really not in the shape to hike not to mention I had just had surgery a month prior.  We decided in one year I would return to Vegas with them and Hike my little heart out.   Imagine my suprise when I recieve a text from the same friends two weeks ago letting me know they would be in vegas on 4/19 and wanted me to meet them for a hike!!!!  My first thought was oh EFF I am not ready for this!!!!   I still have 4 months until my one year dang it!!!!  but then I came back to reality I have lost 160 lbs walk 2-3 miles a day I CAN do this.   So on Tuesday 4/19/11 I went on my first hike in Redrock Canyon.

We chose La Madre Spring trail a little over a 3.5 mile hike

here we are starting out. My friends were so great they took pictures of me starting the hike and getting to the top and the cheered me on the whole way!

Now lets talk about the hike so  3.5 miles didn't seem to bad to me and honestly it wasn't too bad until i got to the last 1/2 mile before the top!!! I think that was the longest 1/2 mile of my life!  (did I mention this climbs 700 feet  kind of a lot for this first time hiker)  A few times I thought forget it i'm not going to make it you guys just go on a ahead (did i mention they did the most difficult trail earlier that morning so they already had 10 miles under their belt)  I stopped for a breather just before the top and my friends must have told some people up ahead because hikers coming down were cheering me on... Honestly my friends were the best :)  
Here are a few pics of the trail ( i didn't take my camera out on the trail so all the pics are from the website but one of my friends took a ton of pics i'll have to wait for her to send me some before i post them)
The start of the trail up not too bad........i can' find the steep pics but coming down was a lot easier I can just say that


When I reached this point I felt like I was treking accross the desert and just found my oasis!   It was here that I realized I accomplished a huge feat that I would never have even tried had I not had my RNY

 In the right hand corner there is a rock where I sat to rest up for my trip down and while there a gentle breeze I sat there and took in the great feeling of accomplishment!

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