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I'm Tanya Wilmoth. I wonder if any of you are afraid of anything.

This summer I did something I've never done before. I talked about doing it for a while but the

reality was that when it came down to it I was too

scared. Even this summer I was looking for excuses at the last minute. The girls had just

had surgery I should stay home with them. But no Eric said the girls are fine you should go

this big thing at least to me that I was wanting but so afraid to do was an overnight

backpacking trip in the mountains the kind where you pack in all your food and pack out all your toilet paper.

Filter your water, sleep in a tent, hang up your food in a bare canister in a tree at night, sleep at elevation, hike a few mountain passes, and have no

cell service or Wi-Fi. It was amazing. It was the most beautiful mountain scenery I have ever

witnessed. It was hard. I had moments

each day that I thought my backpack plus me were not going to make it over the pass.

Sometimes I was actually really scared.

When the wind on the top of the past was so strong, I had to use my poles to stay upright,

or when I wasn't feeling well one night and we still had to set up camp.

But Brayden, my 19-year-old hiking partner, he didn't seem to be bothered by any of it.

He was cool as a cucumber the whole time.

Each night, when it was beginning to get dark, I would start to make my way over to the tent so I would be nice and

tucked into my sleeping bag before the thickness of the night settled over the mountains.

Braden was the only reason I stayed up. He wanted to see the stars. The stars, yes of course!

I swallowed my survival instincts the second night to see what he was waiting up for.

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