This is how we do hiking...

These pictures were taken on a hike up Bontani Valley on a Sabbath afternoon. The spot is not too far from Fountainview Academy. While on the hike, my friends and I decided to pretend we were Israelites - Moses, Aaron, and Miriam - on the way to the promised land! In the process we crossed two big puddles (the Red Sea and Jordan River), fought off armies with our swords (whacked bushes with sticks), made it to the promised land so we could have honey on our biscuits, marched around Jericho (ran around the bus), stoned Achon (pretended to stone poor Cho John), and appointed Joshua as leader (Shannon). Then we loaded the bus and headed back to campus. What a great Sabbath! Enjoy these shots!

"You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves." ~ Lito Tejada-Flores

"Climbing is as close as we can come to flying." ~ Margaret Young

"After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value." ~ George Macauley Trevelyan

"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." ~ Unknown

"Come climb the hill with me

Come and be still with me

Come watch the sun sink away

If you will with me

Come watch the garden grow

Down by the gravel road

Come warm you hands in the gold

Of the afterglow

Into the peace of these wild things,

Into the wilds of this grace,

Into the grace of this blessing,

Speak in the peace of this place

Come walk the cedar stand

Over the broken dam

Sit on the bench at the bend

In the trail again

Look how the children laugh

Out in the tumble grass

Bright as a fire

And as fine as a photograph

(chorus)

Here at the magic hour

Time and eternity

Mingle a moment in chorus

Here at the magic hour

Bright is the mystery

Plain is the beauty before us

Could this beauty be for us?

What is that voice that sings

Holy and hovering

Over this hill in the sill of the evening?

Son of God, speak.

(chorus)

~ The Magic Hour ~ Andrew Peterson