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A challenging outdoor activity in St Lucia is to hike Gros Piton. We read online about the hike and thought that it was long but worth the effort. We arrived and were assigned a guide for our trip. The guide told us to make sure and have enough water and my wife rented a hiking stick. Very early in the hike we could tell it was not as we had been led to believe. The"moderate" first half of the hike was rocky and difficult. It only got worse.
I kept going and then it got quite difficult. It was not a hike but a climb up boulders and rocks at an extreme angle. I came to a point where I wanted to quit. I was tired and winded. But I’m not a quitter, so I continued to the top. It was not nearly as exhilarating as I had hoped. All I could think about was how I had to climb all the way back down. The constant pounding on my knees, the risk of falling and increasing heat were beyond challenging. When I finally finished, I was totally exhausted. I needed ice, massage and lots of stretching just to recover and not ruin the rest of our trip.
It was one of the hardest physical challenges I’ve experienced. Five hours of climbing, over 2,600 feet. It was equal to 160 floors — the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa in Dubai is 163 floors.
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