Bergen Peak

Mr X and I hiked Bergen Peak last weekend. It doesn't look particularly long or hard but it's quite a long hike, actually. It's 10 miles (5 each way) and parts are quite strenuous. We had tried it before, inadvertently. We went for a Sunday 'stroll' after church and we decided it didn't look to hard or too far so we tried it. After an hour and a half and the top nowhere near us, we decided we'd better turn around - we hadn't meant for our Sunday stroll to become a 3 hour hike. Anyway, this time we planned more time for it and completed it. The views were great and the chipmunks were aggressive. I know we shouldn't have fed them but they were practically crawling all over us and the only way to keep them away was to toss them bits of my dried mango snack. Here are our photos:

(Mr X feeding our snacks to the squirrels. They were literally eating out of his hand.)