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just got back from summer camp.... stayed over by mt. st helens got the chance to hike the mountain as well.... it costs $15 for the climbing permit, and its well worth it, it took up 4 hours to climb to the summit ridge, whitch had an awesome view of the crater and the dome, and even at helens's low altituse here was still snow, not much but there was long strips down the mountain, i really wished i brought my snowboard but i didnt and my friend bret backman just ran and jumped into the snow off of the summit and started to ski on his books, now i really suck at skiing so i fel on my butt a lot and slid on my butt a lot... bad idea, because the shotts i was wearing no longer have a butt, and i think i lost some of my own butt that day... but when we finally reached the end of the snow we realised that we were about 3/4 mile off the trail, so we had to cross 3 stinkin ravines full of rocks, but the rocks on that mountain dont like to stay where their supposed to be, they like to fall, so that was interesting to see because we had to be very careful not to knock rocks on eachother, and these werent the "ouch my hand" rocks, these are the "THUMP" and your dead rocks. it turns out that it took close to 2 hours to cross those suckers, but it was fun and well worth it, but the people that couldnt climb the mountain were mad that we took so long, 4 hours to ho up, and almost 6 to get down, funny, painful, hard, AND SO FRICKING WORTH IT!!! the only bad part is that i kinda forgot sunscrean and now im really burnt,whitch is funny, but kinda painful, but not as bad as my friends wierd cherry burns on his legs, ir looks like red and white camo, he was on the snow a lil too long, and wiped his sunscrean off :-D.............. on this trip[ i also had an experiment:400mg of caffene + wired + medidate= severe tweaking, twitching, high blood pressure, and accelerated heartrate, delirium, and severe addrenaline rushes... over all, veru painful. do not retest experiment