I’ve been up King’s Mountain before. This time though, I went with an old friend, Del, and Truman (and Frodo). We took it slow, but it was super fun, and Tru did great!

Truman wanted to carry my Camelbak for a while, so he carried it from just below the summit ridge up to the summit. Then he kept it on all the way down to the car. I think the weight made it a little tough for him on some of the descents, since he kept sliding, slipping and falling. But he had a really great attitude the whole time. It would’ve been easy to get grumpy, since we walked for a total of 4.5 hours, and experienced lots of weather from warm forest to chilly rain and fog at the summit. But he was a champ the whole time.