weekend adventures
Last Thursday afternoon, I managed to weasel my way into a road trip organized by a group of friends who wanted to go rock climbing. My own interests in rock climbing peaked briefly sometime last year and then fizzled out when it turned out that my fear of heights combined with an absolute lack of aptitude for the sport combined to make me the opposite of a natural. Nonetheless, I was set on taking advantage of their friendship to bum a ride up to Bishop, CA so that I could then ditch my companions and have my own adventures.
It became clear very early on that this would be a weekend to remember. In a fit of pure genius, I created a batch of trail mix using white chocolate, which is so obviously superior to its more mundane milk chocolate laden cousin that the world of calorie-dense outdoorsman snack treats may never be the same. And yet, this revelation was only the beginning.
When we arrived in Bishop in the early afternoon, my compatriots set out to do their dirty business upon the boulders of the area. With my pack weighed down with pure white chocolate pleasure, I began my hike.
My path gradually climbed until I arrived at a large open plateau. The sides of the plain fell away to cliffs in the distance, and as the sun was beginning to set, I decided to not attempt anything reckless. The only signs of civilization was one perfect little house, built at the edge of a gorge with an amazing view.
As the sun set behind the mountains, I wandered the area and took my golden hour photos.
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The ground below was covered in frost mere minutes after the sun went down, and I layered on all of my gear as protection against the increasing wind and made my way back to the group.
The next day: Giant rabbits! Alien moonscapes! Mules??? Snow! To be continued…
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i love the cliff landscape pic =) can’t wait to see the rest of it!! were we really on the same trip? =p
White chocolate may taste better than its darker cousins, but it’s not real chocolate. It’s made with cocoa butter instead of cocoa powder, and a foodie like you should know better than to mix them up.
Nice pics; I can’t wait for the rest of them!
I believe she was referring to trail mix with milk chocolate being the cousin of trail mix with white chocolate, not implying that white chocolate is a type of real chocolate. The “batch of trail mix” was the antecedent.
Thanks for clarifying. I read it as “white chocolate, which is so obviously superior to its more mundane milk chocolate…cousin,” which I completely agree with (not counting the incorrect word “cousin,” and the iffy grammar). However, if you expand that ellipsis out to the word “laden,” it does seem like she’s comparing white chocolate trail mix to milk chocolate trail mix.
My mistake!
Understandable. While I am going to mark a point as “grammar FTW,” let us also point out that you are probably reading this at work whereas my unemployed self has ample time to proofread blog comments. =)