Last week, we went on a hike to Cascade Pass. Dad was so excited to go. He’d read about it the night before, and decided that’s where we were going to hike. When we got to the pass, Dad wanted to keep hiking to the top of the next pass, but couldn’t. He told Megan and I to keep hiking for 30 minutes, and we would make it to the top-where he wanted to go. So we hiked on, and we hiked faster than ever because we had to turn around in 30 minutes, but we HAD to make it to the top because Dad believed that we could make it.

One of Dad’s other rules was that we had to stick together. So at the last minute, Megan ran ahead to the top, because if she made it to the top I would have to go to the top too. We hiked to the top of that pass for Dad; to take pictures for him to see how beautiful it was. We made it to the top because Dad believed in us; he always believed in us.

Madison