I stole a rock

After our morning grogginess subsided, we ventured out once again for a hike around Mt. Lemon. This time, we all piled into the cars and drove to Summer Haven. We began our ascent on a slushy, muddy trail. About half way up, DA advised that a few of us taxed, slower hikers turn back. Again determined to reach the top with the reward of a wonderful view, Don and I kept trucking. About three quarters of the way up, DA again urged Don and I to turn around. I took an extra puff from my inhaler and a 30 second breather before Don and I again decided to defy our professor's warning. It took a while, and two breaks before we reached the top and exhaustively peered out over the horizon and were again flabbergasted by the view we had come across. Our lungs were on fire and we probably should have turned back, but I stand by the decision to keep going as the scenery was well worth taxing our out-of-shape bodies once more. On the way back down the mountain, i decided that, similar to the stick from the top of Mt. Bigelow, I'd like to have something to commemorate my hike and found a nice rock to carry with me. Once we came off of the summit, we stopped for pizza and headed back again to start off tonight imaging. That night, we took one last look at the sky. The jupiter team got another video, our team got almost three more hours of NGC2022 and each of us chose a piece of the sky we wanted to image. I chose M1, the "Crab Nebula". The image I took turned out absolutely amazing and I can't wait to calibrate it and see what the final product looks like. We finished off the night with some blurry footage of Saturn and called it a night.