Don’t Take the Shortcut on the Hike

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast
Episode 856 of the Final Season:  Don’t Take the Shortcut on the Hike
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The one big thing that I put down as something to do this year was take a hike. Last week was spring break and we went to Mt. Charleston National Park to do just that.  Round trip it was a 3.8 mile hike with an elevation climb of a little over one-thousand feet. I can’t recall the elevation of where we were at just that we climbed more than one-thousand feet in elevation.

As we got closer to the side of the mountain there were signs that read, “don’t take the shortcut.” When I read the sign I didn’t fully understand until I started to see how the path zig zagged.  My oldest son took the bait and immediately crossed between the lower portion of the path and the higher one. I told him not to do it again and he asked why?

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