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Day Two
Kim woke up early, from the sounds outside, the wind had died out during the night, when she got out of the sleeping bag she shared with Ron the night before, she noticed that he was gone,
'Where did he get off to?' She thought, when she stood up, she realized that she was wearing nothing but her underclothes, she scrambled around the tent, picking up her clothes, and getting dressed in a hurry, she then grabbed her snowsuit, and got into it, zipping it up, just as Ron walked into the tent,
"Good morning, sleepyhead." He said, a sly grin plastered to his face,
"What happened last night?" Kim asked, gesturing to her clothes, which she was now wearing,
"You got too hot last night, and stripped off a few layers of clothes, don't ask me why, I was freezing." Ron replied, his face still hitched in that sly grin,
"There's more to it, Ron, spill." Kim said, her eyes narrowing, the two had agreed on no sex until they felt they were ready, which wouldn't be in the near future,
"It's not what you think, KP, so get your mind out of the gutter." Ron said,
"What's with the goofy grin?" Kim asked,
"The storm blew itself out last night. It's a bon-diggity day for mountain climbing." Ron said, throwing the tent flap wide, the sight that greeted Kim was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. A light layer of snow covered everything, making it look like a scene out of a Christmas card, the valley that Middleton lay in looked so peaceful, it was almost amazing that they were twelve hundred feet up the side of a mountain, and ready to climb up some more,
"Well, what are we standing around here for, then," Kim said, looking at Ron, "let's get up the mountain."
Mid afternoon found Kim and Ron about halfway up the side of the mountain from the first base camp, and according to Ron, they were still about a day away from camp two, which was located near Dead Man's Gorge. A large, wide crevasse, located at about the two thousand foot mark. It was the one thing that stopped several climbers from making it to that height. Ron had been the only person in thirty years to successfully jump the gorge, and make it to camp two, and today, if she watched Ron closely, Kim would join him in that elite group.
"Be careful, K.P.," Ron warned, as they reached a glacier near a shelf. They would need to go over it to reach the spot where Ron had to turn back last year, "this glacier is the reason I came down the mountain early last year. According to Paulie, the head Ranger, the temperature of the ice is about 50 below, automatic frostbite, especially if you're not wearing insulated gloves."
"So not the drama, Ron." Kim said, in her usual manner.
"Really," Ron replied, "need I remind you, Kim, I was about ten minutes from losing my fingers last year."
"Yeah, but you had forgotten your gloves last year, along with a first aid kit." Kim said,
"Not this time." Ron said, his hands enclosed in heavy insulated gloves, attached to his pack, was a box, it was marked in large red letters:
/First Aid Kit/
"This year, I came prepared." he said, his face splitting into a wide grin
"Good for you." Kim said, her voice low, so that Ron couldn't hear her, she knew that Ron had brought the kit, and even if he didn't, she had brought her own.
Ron had used the same procedure to climb up the second glacier he had used to climb the first one, he went up first, then threw down the rope, and ice spikes to Kim, who climbed up, using the rope, and spikes for leverage,
"Cool, let's do it again." Kim said, her voice becoming more, and more excited,
"You're getting the hang of this, K.P." Ron replied, smiling back at Kim. He had set up a ring of stones in the center of a clearing, and in a small pile, near the edge of what was to be a fire pit, were several fish, most of them had already been cleaned, and dressed,
"Where'd you get those?" Kim asked,
"Hidden stash of food I put away about a couple of months ago, I stuck it in that ice pack over there." Ron said, pointing to a small patch of ice, which had a small hole gouged out of it,
"Ingenious, Ron." Kim said, who had to admit, Ron had thought ahead this year, she wondered if he had other stashes like this, scattered all over the mountain, and how he had done it,
"Yeah, I had Wade call in a favor I owed from the Oh Boyz. They loaned me a helicopter, and I went up the mountain, planting food stashes, just like this one. There's another near the place we're gonna be setting up camp for the night." Ron said, Kim remembered how it was Ron, not her, that helped the Oh Boyz to escape the Seniors, and she knew that was one, of only a few favors that was owed to Ron,
"Well, I've got to admit, Ron, you planned ahead for this, didn't you?" Kim asked,
"You didn't think I'd let us starve, did you?" Ron replied, answering Kim's question with a question.
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Night began to fall quickly, and they were still not near the campsite for the night,
"We must've taken a wrong turn somewhere." Kim said, looking back at Ron, who was looking at a compass,
"No, we're going the right way. It should be just over that rise there." Ron said, pointing to a rock wall, about fifty feet in front of them,
"I hope there's enough room." Kim said, looking up at the ledge,
"There is," Ron said, "there were about thirty hikers on the mountain last year, most of us camped here the second night."
Kim pulled out a climbing harness from her bag, then looked back at Ron,
"You coming, or what?" she asked,
"Gimme a second, K.P." Ron replied, now pulling out his own climbing harness, and preparing for the climb up the ledge, and onto the plateau above.
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Kim and Ron agreed to sleep in separate tents tonight, but before doing so, he had cooked both of them a large dinner of smoked salmon, and some of the wild berries that grew around Mt. Middleton, if there was one thing to be said about Ron, he could survive in the wilderness without any outside help at all,
'Now, if he doesn't snore too loud tonight, I'll be golden.' Kim thought, as she crawled into her tent, unfortunately, it wasn't as heavily insulated as Ron's tent, but it served its purpose.
As the moon rose onto the clearing, bathing everything in a bluish light, Kim fell asleep, lost in dreams about this time tomorrow, when they would be attacking Dead Man's Gorge, and hopefully, they would make to camp two, and be nearer to the summit, and Ron could finally stop attempting to conquer the mountain.
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A/N: Well, day two is in the books, and so far, the only thing that seems to worry Kim, is the fact they have to get across an unpassable crevasse, just keep your eyes open, it'll get better from here, I'm not going to give away what happens next, so you're just going to have to read, and find out.
Kim woke up early, from the sounds outside, the wind had died out during the night, when she got out of the sleeping bag she shared with Ron the night before, she noticed that he was gone,
'Where did he get off to?' She thought, when she stood up, she realized that she was wearing nothing but her underclothes, she scrambled around the tent, picking up her clothes, and getting dressed in a hurry, she then grabbed her snowsuit, and got into it, zipping it up, just as Ron walked into the tent,
"Good morning, sleepyhead." He said, a sly grin plastered to his face,
"What happened last night?" Kim asked, gesturing to her clothes, which she was now wearing,
"You got too hot last night, and stripped off a few layers of clothes, don't ask me why, I was freezing." Ron replied, his face still hitched in that sly grin,
"There's more to it, Ron, spill." Kim said, her eyes narrowing, the two had agreed on no sex until they felt they were ready, which wouldn't be in the near future,
"It's not what you think, KP, so get your mind out of the gutter." Ron said,
"What's with the goofy grin?" Kim asked,
"The storm blew itself out last night. It's a bon-diggity day for mountain climbing." Ron said, throwing the tent flap wide, the sight that greeted Kim was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. A light layer of snow covered everything, making it look like a scene out of a Christmas card, the valley that Middleton lay in looked so peaceful, it was almost amazing that they were twelve hundred feet up the side of a mountain, and ready to climb up some more,
"Well, what are we standing around here for, then," Kim said, looking at Ron, "let's get up the mountain."
Mid afternoon found Kim and Ron about halfway up the side of the mountain from the first base camp, and according to Ron, they were still about a day away from camp two, which was located near Dead Man's Gorge. A large, wide crevasse, located at about the two thousand foot mark. It was the one thing that stopped several climbers from making it to that height. Ron had been the only person in thirty years to successfully jump the gorge, and make it to camp two, and today, if she watched Ron closely, Kim would join him in that elite group.
"Be careful, K.P.," Ron warned, as they reached a glacier near a shelf. They would need to go over it to reach the spot where Ron had to turn back last year, "this glacier is the reason I came down the mountain early last year. According to Paulie, the head Ranger, the temperature of the ice is about 50 below, automatic frostbite, especially if you're not wearing insulated gloves."
"So not the drama, Ron." Kim said, in her usual manner.
"Really," Ron replied, "need I remind you, Kim, I was about ten minutes from losing my fingers last year."
"Yeah, but you had forgotten your gloves last year, along with a first aid kit." Kim said,
"Not this time." Ron said, his hands enclosed in heavy insulated gloves, attached to his pack, was a box, it was marked in large red letters:
/First Aid Kit/
"This year, I came prepared." he said, his face splitting into a wide grin
"Good for you." Kim said, her voice low, so that Ron couldn't hear her, she knew that Ron had brought the kit, and even if he didn't, she had brought her own.
Ron had used the same procedure to climb up the second glacier he had used to climb the first one, he went up first, then threw down the rope, and ice spikes to Kim, who climbed up, using the rope, and spikes for leverage,
"Cool, let's do it again." Kim said, her voice becoming more, and more excited,
"You're getting the hang of this, K.P." Ron replied, smiling back at Kim. He had set up a ring of stones in the center of a clearing, and in a small pile, near the edge of what was to be a fire pit, were several fish, most of them had already been cleaned, and dressed,
"Where'd you get those?" Kim asked,
"Hidden stash of food I put away about a couple of months ago, I stuck it in that ice pack over there." Ron said, pointing to a small patch of ice, which had a small hole gouged out of it,
"Ingenious, Ron." Kim said, who had to admit, Ron had thought ahead this year, she wondered if he had other stashes like this, scattered all over the mountain, and how he had done it,
"Yeah, I had Wade call in a favor I owed from the Oh Boyz. They loaned me a helicopter, and I went up the mountain, planting food stashes, just like this one. There's another near the place we're gonna be setting up camp for the night." Ron said, Kim remembered how it was Ron, not her, that helped the Oh Boyz to escape the Seniors, and she knew that was one, of only a few favors that was owed to Ron,
"Well, I've got to admit, Ron, you planned ahead for this, didn't you?" Kim asked,
"You didn't think I'd let us starve, did you?" Ron replied, answering Kim's question with a question.
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Night began to fall quickly, and they were still not near the campsite for the night,
"We must've taken a wrong turn somewhere." Kim said, looking back at Ron, who was looking at a compass,
"No, we're going the right way. It should be just over that rise there." Ron said, pointing to a rock wall, about fifty feet in front of them,
"I hope there's enough room." Kim said, looking up at the ledge,
"There is," Ron said, "there were about thirty hikers on the mountain last year, most of us camped here the second night."
Kim pulled out a climbing harness from her bag, then looked back at Ron,
"You coming, or what?" she asked,
"Gimme a second, K.P." Ron replied, now pulling out his own climbing harness, and preparing for the climb up the ledge, and onto the plateau above.
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Kim and Ron agreed to sleep in separate tents tonight, but before doing so, he had cooked both of them a large dinner of smoked salmon, and some of the wild berries that grew around Mt. Middleton, if there was one thing to be said about Ron, he could survive in the wilderness without any outside help at all,
'Now, if he doesn't snore too loud tonight, I'll be golden.' Kim thought, as she crawled into her tent, unfortunately, it wasn't as heavily insulated as Ron's tent, but it served its purpose.
As the moon rose onto the clearing, bathing everything in a bluish light, Kim fell asleep, lost in dreams about this time tomorrow, when they would be attacking Dead Man's Gorge, and hopefully, they would make to camp two, and be nearer to the summit, and Ron could finally stop attempting to conquer the mountain.
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A/N: Well, day two is in the books, and so far, the only thing that seems to worry Kim, is the fact they have to get across an unpassable crevasse, just keep your eyes open, it'll get better from here, I'm not going to give away what happens next, so you're just going to have to read, and find out.
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