Aaron, Chris and Hayden as we get to the top of the trail with all of our sampling gear on our backs.

The view from the top. You can see Rattlesnake Lake below. All of these valleys were carved out by glaciers during the last ice age. As a result, there are tons of really shallow mountain lakes and dotting the system of u-shaped valleys among the Cascade Mountains.

Our tablecloth didn't hang properly because there was a giant real rock in the way. It seemed fitting, so we left the table there. Plus, if we would have moved back any farther, we would have probably fallen off the cliff.

Things to note in this photo: Chris is still really hot and tired. He didn't want to put a shirt on - he is becoming something of a nudist (all speedos all the time), we have uncrushed fresh blueberries, ice cold yogurt, and yes, we never let up with the meticulous cleanliness; Clorox wipes.

Ready! And beautiful. We had to lay the bags of Bear Naked down because the wind kept blowing them off the table.

When we got all set-up, there were around 50 hikers sitting around the top of the rock, taking in the view. I went around to all of them and invited them to come get a parfait. Everyone thanked me, but almost no one took me up on the offer. I though that they were scared of falling off. Later my girlfriend, who was sitting in the middle of the rock area, told me that almost everyone was just scared that we were going to fall off the edge and die. I guess they didn't want to be an accessory to the disaster. It didn't look scary from behind the table, but when I climbed down the cliff a bit to get this picture, I could see where they were coming from. There is about 800 more feet of drop-off, not shown in the picture.

The team (from left to right): Aaron, Chris, Hayden (soon to be referred to exclusively as "Haymaker").

We REALLY wanted to run back down the mountain and jump in the lake. It was HOT at the top. So hot in fact, that Chris and Hayden had a serious 10 minute long conversation about the possibility of turning one of our backpacks into a wing suit and flying down to the lake below.Chris and Haymaker hard at work.

Haymaker trying to look natural while kneeling so that he fits in the picture. He's pullin it off.

Second location. We moved here due to hiker fear of the edge. After we moved here, we were busy the whole time! Who would have ever thought that there would be a line at a free granola stand on top of a mountain? I love it! The best part of the day came about 2 hours into our sampling efforts. Hikers often talk to each other when they pass by one another on the trail. Apparently, some of the descending hikers were excitedly telling ascending hikers, (perhaps for a bit of extra encouragement), that we were making parfaits with cold yogurt, Bear Naked Granola and FRESH BLUEBERRIES on top. Everyone obviously thought that they were lying until they emerged from the trail and saw our orange table. People were seriously so shocked that they would just stop and laugh. Everyone loved it. Then they would ask, "So, what other trails can we find you at?"

Besides the view, there is a large fissure in the rock at the top of the ridge. The rest of the pictures are just us playing in the fissure. We were having so much fun, and laughing so hard, that for the first 30 minutes of our hike down, everyone we passed (people heading up) told us they knew that they were close because they could hear us cheering. You forget that if you belly laugh on top of a mountain, people hear you!

Chris being a bear. He passes.

Cliffhanger! Who invited Sylvester Stallone?

Chris' butt got stuck as he tried to shimmy though a crevasse. You can see his feet kicking with giggly panic. He eventually made it out and we played in the lake. It was a great day.