Adams peak: to&fro- 12 hours, 10,600 steps, 14k , and I started the journey with approx 1:38 min of total sleep time . Delirium. At the top, right before day break, the trail bottlenecked into one "up" and "down" lane. obnoxious tourists on "original" quests to document a sunrise, began hopping over the lanes and cutting in front of everyone else who was waiting over two hours in line (and had just hiked 5 hours). One Israeli man (and his chinless wife) scolded me (after i had just snapped at them for cutting) that I was rude for not allowing others to skip the line. "live and let live", he lectured, while looking down at me from his vantage point, 40 stairs up. Joe muttered," LIz!!!" (but it was too late, i utilized my vocal cords so effectively that each person in between our 40 stair gap turned) ."pshhhhh, says the man who cut the line...Well, let us all make team t- shirts entitled LIVE aND LET LIVE 2013: that will totally make me feel relaxed and carefree when we miss out on this sunset for allowing all of you to cut. Such a stereotype! Live and let live, kiss my fat ass!" (joe said he has never been so proud, and I made the man so uncomfortable that him and his chinless wife left before sunrise). NEWsFLasH: when they left/ had to walk down the stairs past me, i clapped ...
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