Heart Mountain is our most difficult, yet often our most beloved hike on the trip. It is challenging and extremely rewarding. The views earned by climbing Heart are incredible and enormous. The hike is a slog... up and up and up and up for two and a half hours. Upon reaching the first summit, we stopped for lunch and then hike the ridge on the backside up to a second summit. This section is an easier go and offers incredible 360 degree views and opens into an alpine meadow. Can anyone sing "Doe a deer a female deer?" The final section is down, down, down and we descended quickly until reaching the "never-ending walk" which is a two km flat walk back to the bus down the hydro line. After the hike, this walk felt like 20 km but at the bus we were rewarded with cold water, cold watermelon and popsicles! What a great day! NOTE: Some of the pictures are misleading in that they are meant to look like they are climbing! At no time were students ever in danger or anywhere near a cliff... in fact at one point, in the pictures where it looks like the students are above a cliff, a hiker coming down bounded down the mountain in behind them, basically bouncing down in running shoes!