Questions to be asked at Iron Mountain

Perhaps a ray from heaven


Early morning fire


Jenni waits for the sun to surface


Gentle on our minds...and souls

You might ask what would make a person wake at 4:30am to take a hike up a mountain, part way in the dark. We would say that’s a fair question. Then you might ask, why would that person repeat the exercise two days later. That would be a better question although enough with the questions already. Just last week, we noticed people were asking questions…more than usual. Even at the table on a couple of nights, the youngest child asked questions. Not one or two but four. What’s with all the inquisitiveness going on at this time of the year?


Clouds come rolling in like the tides


Feeling on top of the world as sun 'warms' the back


Blazing sun starts the day in struggle with clouds

Back to our reasons for doing what we did. Firstly, as our friend Sean often says: He believes the early morning is Hashem’s time. Who are we to disagree. The way the earth progresses from darkness to light is truly a marvel. However, the process happens slowly at first, then speeding up and remaining constant for the rest of the day. Perhaps the crescendo occurs, very early, just as the orb appears over a mountaintop, announcing its arrival in a blaze of glory as it spreads its light and warmth to almost every nook and cranny. Here’s our question. Who can resist that?


Impressive cloud formations toying with mountain tops


Male team members arrive after leader, Jenni


Fascinating inter-play of clouds and sun

Another reason for the repeat is that it gave us the opportunity to hike with Joe and Sam Resnikoff, a treat for us. Joe wanted to hike with us but his parameter was not ‘where’ but ‘when’. Being a specialist medical man, he has limited time to fool around like others…ahem. He wanted a hike based upon time focusing on the special period of sunrise or sunset—this made Iron Mountain the logical choice. None of us were disappointed. With his minor son Sam joining us with a miner’s lamp, the path at 5:30am was well illuminated.


Not an easy place to leave

We notice in this world of ours that places may appear to remain the same from day-to-day. However, we submit this not the case. Each day the same place looks different, affected by the sun, clouds…you get the idea. Today was no different. As many times as we go up that little mountain, about 6 miles return, it always provides us with pleasure in a different visual form.


Another of morning fire, quite spectacular

Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey