It has been quite a cold Spring this year, so appropriately, my friends and I went hiking to Cold Spring. There was a huge group of students from the International House going there as well. We all met at the I-House entrance early in the morning. Everyone besides my 3 friends and I took the Metro-North train to Breakneck Ridge which dropped them off right at the beginning of the hiking trails. Since one of my friends had a car, we drove instead of taking the train. The timing was perfect. In a matter of minutes after we parked the car on the side of the road at the final destination, we saw the I-House army coming from the train station. Just before getting into the woods, the guide of the group probably wished he had a megaphone as he was announcing the lack of bathrooms in the forest.

The start of the hike was quite difficult. We had to climb quite a steep mountain. Some of the members of the group needed help to get through some of the tricky parts of the climb. The hard work got paid off by the spectacular views of the Hudson River valley that we saw from the top of the mountain. The road on which we drove looked just like from an airplane. I brought the American Flag with me to celebrate the upcoming Memorial Day holiday. (Just kidding)

We ate lunch, took a nap without the fear of sliding down 1000 feet and separated from the rest of the I-House group since they could not keep up with our professional hiking pace. Several times we got confused which way to go. Fortunately there were some fellow hikers on our way who had a map.

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