Papa met a lot of cool new friends when he went to college in Utah. He was
still friends with some of them even as an adult. A few of them were at his
funeral. One summer, after he was finished with his junior year at
Promontory University, some of these friends decided that they wanted to go
hiking and camping. Normally in the summer, papa would go home to stay with
his parents, but he wanted to go on the trip too. They had done trips like
this before, but always somewhere close. A mountain called Wheeler Peak
would have taken them twelve hours to drive, but none of them wanted to be
on the road for that long, so they bought train tickets instead. The journey
was actually longer, because trains have to make a lot of stops, but it was
much more comfortable. It was a popular destination for college kids, so a
train went pretty close to both places. They still had to take a car to get
to the mountain. They didn’t want to spend money on a rental, so they
hitchhiked, which means they asked for a ride from a stranger. Dad says
never to do that, because it’s dangerous, but papa and his friends were
okay. They hiked for several miles up the mountain, and it was really hard,
but they enjoyed it. I’ve seen the pictures that he took while he was there.
They’re very beautiful. Once they were finished with the hike, they went
back to the train station, and took different trains, because they needed to
go to different places. Papa did end up going back home to Idaho until it
was time for his senior year.
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