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we've got a few weeks left before the holidays, so tune into no love for ned on wlur from 8pm to midnight tonight to hear something new. last week's show is below and streamable when you have time (or just stick around for the re-air at 10pm tonight)!

no love for ned on wlur – november 25th, 2022 from 8-10pm

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jamestkirkish · 5 years

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So @lucks-eterna made this thing.

I had a lot of feelings. So have some post 3x21 angst. Just. Angst.

Devil Undone Rated T Word Count: 1,490 Pairing: Lucifer Morningstar/Chloe Decker (one sided)

He didn't go to Las Vegas. Despite everything, he couldn’t do that to her. Still, he couldn’t stay. While Lucifer knew he would never be able to make himself actually leave her, he definitely needed…a moment. Humans took vacations all the time. He made two calls and two stops before driving north with no intention of stopping until forced to, perhaps by a lack of further road.

The first call was to the precinct, so that a message would be delivered to the Detective when she came into work. He told the receptionist he would be back soon, but ended the call without getting into specifics.

The second call was to arrange the purchase of a large amount of drugs. Even with his celestial metabolism he had no intention of being sober for a moment. He wanted to forget this pain. Once he ran out of drugs, maybe that would be when he came back.

Lucifer’s chest hurt like phantom pains of Michaels sword running through him.

It was agony.

The first stop was to Linda’s office. She wasn’t there - he knew she wouldn’t be. For her he left a note and two bottles of wine. Wine, as an apology for not calling her or texting her, for he knew that’s what she would want of him. Unfortunately, for once in Lucifer’s long life, he could barely speak. It hurt too much.

The second stop, of course, was to pick up the drugs.

The stretch of highway cutting through Los Padres National Forest gave him a view of his stars that he hadn’t been prepared for. Looking at them through wide wet eyes, he screamed at the top of his lungs. The rage was short lived, and the effort broke him.

“What do You WANT?!” he shouted upwards, wanting his Father to hear him and for once answer.

The stars pulsated and moved, but that wasn’t an answer. That was just acid. He snorted, gripping the steering wheel tighter.

“You know, I meant it! REMEMBER OUR DEAL?! I said I’d be the son You always wanted me to be, and You’ve still NOT TOLD ME WHAT THAT IS!” he kept yelling over the noise of the wind, though he found he couldn’t bear to look at the sky any longer. Lucifer found that it just seemed to drive the metaphorical sword even deeper.

“I did my best with Mum, You know! It’s You who isn’t holding up your end of the deal! You were supposed to PROTECT her! Now she’s chosen Cain?! I suppose she could have only chose more dangerously by picking me,” and then his sobs turned into laughter.

The road stretched ahead of him in the dark, and he kept driving.

By sunrise he was filling up his tank at a gas station outside of Redding. His phone had been ringing a moment ago - Lucifer had turned it off without looking at who had called. It didn’t matter. Nothing mattered.

Why had things ever mattered?

These were the kinds of questions he didn’t want to think on. Meant it was time to take some more drugs. There was a chance he wouldn’t have enough to make it to Canada. Then again, he could always find more. Lucifer had always been excellent at acquiring illicit substances.

“Look at what it’s bloody come to,” he seethed, making a harsh turn out of the parking lot and back onto the highway, “the Devil not even strong enough to face himself.”

Lucifer reached into the glovebox and took the first thing his hand landed on - ecstasy. That should pick up his spirits. He took the pills with a swig from his flask.

Lines on the road blurred as he pushed down the gas pedal. He just dared a traffic cop to pull him over, craving the conflict. For some human to try to impose their pointless laws onto him. As if imposing their emotions wasn’t enough.

“Is this my new punishment?!” his flung words at the wind, knowing his Father wasn’t listening. Getting no reply.

The drugs started kicking in as he drove into another national forest.

Somewhere in Oregon is all Lucifer would be able to answer if asked where he was at this moment. Somewhere in Oregon where he could not get decent whiskey, now that he had finished off the many bottles he had thrown into the trunk before leaving Lux. It hadn’t even been 24 hours.

Forgetting was a task much more difficult than he had originally thought.

“Suppose this will have to do,” he mumbled to the check out clerk at the liquor store as she looked him up and down. Lucifer knew that look.

Her hair was too dark. Her smile wasn’t right.

When he got back into his car the twilight sky left him enough light to snort something on his dashboard. He no longer knew what. Couldn’t be bothered to pay attention. It didn’t matter. Nothing mattered.

As he drove onwards, not bothering to take his sunglasses off even when the night became black. For some reason, it all still hurt. Maybe it would never stop.

He hadn’t meant to stop, but there he was. The bar had decent whiskey and he had no idea what state he was in anymore. Lucifer had no idea why he was playing the piano, or who had been playing it before he sat down. All he knew was that the fact he was wondering meant the drugs must be wearing off again.

His rendition of ‘That’s All’ went from upbeat to viciously melancholy.

Perhaps if he was in the Detective’s presence his feeling in his chest would have literally killed him by this point. There was no way a mere mortal could withstand this sort of pain, even if it wasn’t physical.

“You know,” he told a waitress as he passed her, heading toward the exit, “it’s all my fault really. I never told her. Never showed her who I really am, never let her know how I truly felt about her. Then it was too late.”

He didn’t give the girl time to reply. Didn’t know why he told her all that to begin with. Of course it was true, but she didn’t need to know.

It was a purposeful decision, finishing up the last of his drugs - an amount that would have lasted him at least another day. Lucifer wanted to be unconscious. It was his final idea for escaping this feeling. Unconsciousness, however it happened.

He regained consciousness alone, in the front seat of his mangled Corvette. For the first time since he left LA, he was sober.

“Well at least I have the Devil’s luck,” he sighed to himself, finding his phone undamaged and still plenty charged after being off. He ignored all of his notifications, just arranged a tow and an Uber. Apparently he was quite close to Seattle.

Unable to ignore his call history, he cringed. The Detective had rung many times, as had Linda. He lit a cigarette before hitting call back.

“Lucifer?!” his therapist answered immediately.

“Hello, doctor,” he tried to smile but found he couldn’t. Lucifer took a long drag in defeat. This call was the inevitable end to his ill-thought attempt at distraction.

“Where are you? I’ve been trying to get ahold of you for days! Everyone has been worried!”

“Oh, I’m sure that’s not true. It’s not as though it’s the first time I’ve disappeared, after all. Not as though my presence is particularly needed in Los Angeles. Plus I even informed everyone of my absence this time,” he scoffed, not about to fall into that trap. The trap of thinking that maybe the Detective cared that he had been gone, that she had missed him.

“Where are you?”

“Ah yes, I was hoping you might help me with that…I’ll be in Seattle shortly. I was wondering if you might…help me to get home.”

Lucifer was not unaware of how he looked in his destroyed suit, unkempt from days without shower or sleep. Not that that would really stop him if he wanted to remain alone. The thing was…he no longer wanted the silence. His own mind left to itself was waging a civil war. It didn’t matter which side won.

“I’ll be there as soon as I can. We are going to talk on the way back, Lucifer,” she scolded him, and he knew he deserved it.

“Yes, I know,” he sighed. He arranged for Linda to fly up and planned to text her further information once she landed. When he hung up Lucifer put his phone on silent and tossed his forgotten cigarette onto the ground before wiping the trail of ash of his hand.

He missed noticing the small pains that meant the Detective was close by.

“I love her, you know,” he whispered into the wind, knowing still that his Father wouldn’t answer and wasn’t listening.

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mixtake · 6 years

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2017 according to mixtake

Este é o ano da 10ª coletânea anual! Desde 2007! Não vai ter festa de comemoração, mas é provável que role uma edição especial! É sempre um trampo do caralho, mas vale MUITO à pena!

O download, playlist no spotify e link direto pra cada ano tá lá no fim do post. A coletânea de 2017 tem 140 faixas. 9 horas e 47 minutos de música!

Artist : Song : Album Aimee Mann : Good for Me : Mental Illness Airiel : You Sweet Talker : Molten Young Lovers Alex Chilton : Every Time I Close My Eyes (Alt Version) : Take Me Home and Make Me Like It Alvvays : Dreams Tonite : Antisocialites Andrew Bird : Lazuli Bunting : Echolocations: River Angel Olsen : Only with You : Phases Angus & Julia Stone : Snow : Snow Arcade Fire : Creature Comfort : Everything Now Baxter Dury : Mungo : Prince of Tears Beach Fossils : Down The Line : Somersault Beach House : Baby : B-Sides And Rarities Beck : Dear Life : Colors Belle & Sebastian : Fickle Season : How to Solve Our Human Problems Part 1 EP Benjamin Gibbard : December : Bandwagonesque The Black Angels : Medicine : Death Song Black Grape : String Theory : Pop Voodoo Blondie : Already Naked : Pollinator BMX Bandits : Forever : BMX Bandits Forever Bob Dylan : These Foolish Things : Triplicate The Brian Jonestown Massacre : Dropping Bombs on The Sun : Don't Get Lost British Sea Power : The Voice of Ivy Lee : Let the Dancers Inherit the Party Broken Social Scene : Protest Song : Hug of Thunder Carla Bruni : Enjoy the Silence : French Touch The Cars : Just What I Needed : Live at The Agora, 1978 Cast : How Can We Lose : Kicking Up The Dust Chain & the Gang : I Hate Winners : Experimental Music The Charlatans : Plastic Machinery : Different Days Charlotte Gainsbourg : Lying with You : Rest Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker : Tearjerker : Room 29 Chris Robinson Brotherhood : Get Out of My Life Woman : Betty's Blends, Vol. 3: Self-Rising, Southern Blends Chuck Berry : Lady B. Goode : Chuck The Church : Before the Deluge : Man Woman Life Death Infinity Cigarettes After Sex : K. : Cigarettes After Sex The Clientele : Lunar Days : Music for the Age of Miracles Conor Oberst : A Little Uncanny : Salutations Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile : Continental Breakfast : Lotta Sea Lice Cults : With My Eyes Closed : Offering Dan Auerbach : Never in My Wildest Dreams : Waiting on a Song David Bazan : Inner Lives : Care David Bowie : "Heros" (French Single Version, 2017 Remastered Version) : A New Career In A New Town (1977- 1982) David Bowie : When I Met You : No Plan EP The Dears : Guns or Knives : Times Infinity Volume Two Destroyer : Tinseltown Swimming in Blood : Ken Dope Lemon : Neon Lights : Hounds Tooth EP Ducktails : Cemetery Dance : Daffy Duck in Hollywood Ducktails : Solitary Star : Jersey Devil Echo & The Bunnymen : Friction : It's All Live Now El Mató a Un Policía Motorizado : La Noche Eterna : La Síntesis O'Konor Elbow : Magnificent (She Says) : Little Fictions Fazerdaze : Misread : Morningside Firefriend : The Black Hole : The Black Hole The Flaming Lips : How (Live ISS Concert For Peace) : Live Onboard The International Space Station: Concert For Peace The Flaming Lips : Sunrise (Eyes of the Young) : Oczy Mlody Fleet Foxes : If You Need to, Keep Time on Me : Crack-Up The Fresh & Onlys : Qualm of Innocence : Wolf Lie Down Future Islands : Cave : The Far Field Goldfrapp : Moon in Your Mouth : Silver Eye Gorillaz : Saturnz Barz (feat. Popcaan) : Humanz Grandaddy : Evermore : Last Place Guided By Voices : Goodbye Note : August By Cake Half Japanese : The Preventers : Hear The Lions Roar Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions : Sleep : Son of a Lady The Horrors : World Below : V Iron & Wine : Song in Stone : Beast Epic James : What For : Justhipper: The Complete Sire & Blanco Y Negro Recordings 1986-1988 Jamiroquai : Something About You : Automaton Japandroids : Arc of Bar : Near to the Wild Heart of Life Jeff Tweedy : Hummingbird : Together at Last Jesu/Sun Kil Moon : The Greatest Conversation Ever in The History of The Universe : 30 Seconds to The Decline of Planet Earth The Jesus and Mary Chain : Amputation : Damage and Joy Juliana Hatfield : Kellyanne : Pussycat Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble : Committed : Find Me Finding You Lali Puna : Bony Fish (feat. Mary Lattimore) : Two Windows Land of Talk : In Florida : Life After Youth Laura Marling : Nothing, Not Nearly : Semper Femina LCD Soundsystem : Call the Police : American Dream Lee Ranaldo : Let's Start Again : Electric Trim Liam Gallagher : For What It's Worth : As You Were Lo Tom : Overboard : Lo Tom Los Campesinos! : 5 Flucloxacillin : Sick Scenes Luna : GTX3 : A Place of Greater Safety EP Luna : Fire in Cairo (The Cure Cover) : A Sentimental Education Mac DeMarco : For The First Time : This Old Dog Marc Bolan : Girl (Acoustic Session) : Skycloaked Lord (of Precious Light) Mark Kozelek : Astronomy : Night Talks EP Mark Lanegan Band : Drunk on Destruction : Gargoyle Mew : Nothingness and No Regrets : Visuals Mogwai : Party in the Dark : Every Country's Sun Monster Movie : Going Backwards : Keep the Voices Distant Moon Duo : Creepin' : Occult Architecture Vol. 1 Moon Duo : Sevens : Occult Architecture Vol. 2 Morrissey : Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up On the Stage : Low in High School The National : Guilty Party : Sleep Well Beast Neil Young & Promise of the Real : Almost Always : The Visitor Neil Young : Human Highway : Hitchhiker The New Pornographers : Whiteout Conditions : Whiteout Conditions Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds : She Taught Me How To Fly : Who Built The Moon? Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark : Isotype : The Punishment of Luxury The Orwells : Vacation : Terrible Human Beings The Pains of Being Pure at Heart : Falling Apart So Slow : The Echo of Pleasure Paul Weller : Hopper : A Kind Revolution Phoenix : Telefono : Ti Amo Pia Fraus : Endless Clouds : Field Ceremony Radiohead : Lift : OKNOTOK The Raveonettes : Fast Food : 2016 Atomized Ray Davies : The Deal : Americana Real Estate : Darling : In Mind Ride : Cali : Weather Diaries Royal Blood : Where Are You Now? : How Did We Get So Dark? Ryan Adams : Streets Of Philadelphia : Live at Rough Trade Ryan Adams : Do You Still Love Me : Prisoner Ryan Adams : Broken Things : Prisoner (End of World Edition: B-Sides) Saint Etienne : Take It All In : Home Counties Singapore Sling : Evil Angel : Kill Kill Kill Slowdive : Sugar for the Pill : Slowdive The Smiths : Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Demo) : The Queen Is Dead (Deluxe Edition) Sondre Lerche : Siamese Twin : Pleasure Spoon : Hot Thoughts : Hot Thoughts Stars : The Gift of Love : There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light Starsailor : All This Life : All This Life Stereophonics : All In One Night : Scream Above the Sounds Sufjan Stevens : Death with Dignity : Carrie & Lowell Live Temples : Certainty : Volcano Thee Oh Sees : Animated Violence : Orc Thurston Moore : Smoke of Dreams : Rock N Roll Consciousness Tim Bernardes : Talvez : Recomeçar Tindersticks : Peas and Ques : Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith Tricky : The Only Way : Ununiform Ty Segall : Waterloo Sunset : Something Else: A Tribute to the Kinks Ty Segall : Break a Guitar : Ty Segall (2017) The Underground Youth : Alice : What Kind of Dystopian Hellhole Is This? Van Morrison : Roll With the Punches : Roll With the Punches The War On Drugs : Knocked Down : A Deeper Understanding The Waterboys : Love Walks In : Out of All This Blue Waxahatchee : Brass Beam : Out in the Storm Whitney : No Woman (Demo) : Light Upon the Lake: Demo Recordings Widowspeak : When I Tried : Expect the Best The Willowz : Just Can't Wait : Fifth Wire : Diamonds in Cups : Silver/Lead The XX : Say Something Loving : I See You

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light-saint · 7 years

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There is nothing more amazing than the feeling you get when you get to see the sun bathing your face with it’s morning light from the highest peak of your beautiful home country.

I must admit, even though Chirripó is Costa Rica’s highest mountain, I had never actually seen any image that referred to this place. I knew it was there and that it was cold (actually very cold), but never had I seen a picture of it. It was a mystery to me. Like having a treasure hidden in your closet that even though you knew there was something important there, you wouldn’t dare to even look at it.

That is how I felt of this place. I wanted to get to the top with no expectations whatsoever and see everything with my own eyes!

One of the rivers that Flows on the Base of the Mountain

We started out as a group of about 8 people planning to go do the hike. Everyone was excited at the beginning, but when the time came to show up and say “Yes! I’m going, I just payed!”, 6 of them canceled and just Juan and I ended up going. I don’t really know why this happens, and it happens a lot they say, but it’s like the mountain decides who goes and who doesn’t. I guess that for me it’s a little bit of a challenge to keep your intention on going and doing it no matter what. Sad, I must say, because they lost an experience of a lifetime. But well, not really my problem, I, on the other hand, was the happiest person alive to live this experience!

The trip started once that Juan came looking for me at about 5:30am on a Saturday. We had to drive to Perez Zeledón and from there it was like an hour drive to the base of the mountain. It was hard to keep him from listening to Justin Beiber, but I finally convinced him and we could listen to normal music for about 4 and a half hours.

Giving it all to singing.

Getting near Base

The road.

Once we got there, we actually found ourselves joining the tour bus that had left earlier. Yes, we were on a tour schedule, and had to rendezvous at the National Park to get our bracelet and tickets for food and entrance to the Shelter on the valley atop the mountain.

To make it a little bit clearer, there is actually 15 km from the base to the Shelter. Up there you are allowed to stay up to four days depending on the permit you get. We stayed up there only one night. From the shelter you can do lots of hikes. Chirripó is only one of the hikes you can do, about 3 km from the shelter, but there is also Ventisqueros, Crestones, Terbi, Ditkevi, Guardianes de las Aguas Eternas, etc, etc… Chirripo is the highest, though, standing at 3820 meters above sea level. We made all of these hikes in just 2 days, which I don´t really recommend you doing if you want to take it slow!

Deciding what to get and what to leave to the Arrieros.

Meeting Hall

Getting ready to look for the waterfall.

The town at the Base of the Mountain

Once at the base we slept at the Hotel Uran, located about 20 m from the entrance to the Km Zero of the trail. Great food. Amazing service. Had a small talk with the whole tour group to get to know each other and off to relax. Some of us even went to a nearby waterfall located about 15 m from the hotel. Beautiful place to relax!

These are all from the time we spent waiting for midnight and walking to the waterfall.

The time had come. Juan and I were ready and had even taken things off of our backpacks because we knew they were not going to be needed. 11:40 pm. Everything quiet. Backpacks on our backs and headlamps not yet on. We made sure nothing was left on the room and headed out. 11:55pm. We started stretching. We had a 6-7 hour walk in front and this was totally needed. There were 2 groups: the ´slow´ one that started at 12 am and the ´fast´ one that was intended to catch the first group started at 1 am. We were on the slow one because Juan and I were both carrying a lot of weight and thought that maybe we needed to have more time on our side.

12 mid night.

“Let’s go team!” – the team leader shouted.

All of us grabbed on to our walking stick and started moving. All of us cleared our heads, switched the headlamp on and looked straight ahead. Again, much like the Arenal hike, all you could hear were footsteps and see the lights of the people you had in front. It was going to be a 6-7 hour walk, but we had our energy drinks and bars with us.

The first km is called the “Thermometer”, it’s one of the hardest. It’s called like this to measure who can handle the rest of the hike. It does live up to it’s name, i can assure you that!

14 more kilometers to go and you already feel your legs throbbing. This is a very mental hike. All you got to do is look at your next step and keep on doing it. We stayed with one of the guys from the tour and got to know him well. His name is Jean. Curious thing about him is that Juan and I thought we had a lot of weight on our backs… Well, Jean had 16kg on his backpack. He didn’t pay for the things to be taken up (They are called Arrieros, you pay for the weight taken up and they do with horses), like Juan and I did with half of our stuff.

The Thermometer

Kilometer 7 resting spot.

Juan Eating at kilometer 4.

This is Jean.

Views at Kilometer 10

We only made stops at Km 4, the gate where the warden had to be, Km 7, which is half way and there is also a little bit of a shelter where you can fill your Camelback again, and, km 10 that we really needed to rest a little. The last 2 km are the hardest. It’s called “La cuesta de los arrepentidos” or The Repentant Slope, you can imagine why. But from then on you get so much energy knowing that there’s one one km to go!

The repentant Slope

After the Repentant Slope.

Finally! The Albergue (shelter). It’s more like a hostel right now, though. Amazing, I must add. The architecture is great for being so high up and every room has bunk beds with super comfortable mattresses. Once we got there, we had breakfast and went directly to rest. There was a long hike still on the way and our legs weren’t answering. Oh, we also had a cold shower first. Can you imagine? We were at probably 6 degrees Celsius, and THERE WAS NO HOT WATER. All you had to do was stand in front of the shower head, count to three, and open the shower. It literally HURT. It had taken us 6 hours and 20 minutes to get up there. We got there on a great time. Almost nobody had passed us and we had a small window for sleeping.

Juan getting the Shot

View of Crestones from the Shelter

Our Room.

FINALLY AT THE SHELTER

9am. Get up again.

The next hike was Crestones.

We could barely walk but hey! This is the first time I get to go to Chirripó and we had already done 15 km up. There was no way I was going to miss any landscape. So, at a relatively slow pace, we started going up again. This time I took less stuff on my bag, yet the camera gear is heavy.

Crestones is AMAZING. You can feel the scale from the images. Up there, the valley looks like no other landscape in my country. We took a couple of pictures, had lunch, smiled like I never thought I could, and kept walking towards Terbi. We got to Terbi (3760m above sea level) at about 1:15pm. The third highest mountain.

Our Guide Jose

Hi.

Look at the scale of this place!

Can you spot him?

From there we took the same path to get to Guardianes de las Aguas Eternas, a pathway that has rocks on it’s sides and you feel really small. The next stop was El Valle de los Conejos. This was after you went down the mountain and got to a more barren type of valley with a crossroad and some benches. We had the option of going to Ditkevi (a Lake), back to the shelter, or to Ventisqueros, the second highest peak. Only Juan from the 15 of us decided he didn’t want to go to Ditkevi.

Guardianes de las Aguas Eternas

2pm. Waiting for the people at the Crossroad in the Valley.

Valle de los Conejos

3pm. Ditkevi.

This lake’s name, Ditkevi, means: Place to have close encounters with God. Jean and I waited for the group and I went to meditate for some time until everyone gathered. The energy there feels so perfect.

Someone. though, decided it was a good idea to get INSIDE the lake… it was cloudy out, temperature was cold, and yet they wanted to get inside the freezing lake!? Well… it was another challenge. A girl started out and got in with no problem, and obviously everyone started cheering and motivating each other to get in. At the end I had to… Peer Pressure basically… But who cares? I actually did want to get in. So I took off my shirt, thought of all the cold waterfalls I had got into and started running inside. The feeling is none like you’d ever imagined. You do feel like your body just changes. As if you are reborn. The skin itches and you breath again. You are another you and leave that body somewhere inside the mountains of this magical place.

4pm. We were walking back to the Shelter. Done. Some crazy ones decided they were going to Ventisqueros, so they did. My legs would have never been able to. We still had to wake up early in the morning to see the sunrise at Chirripo.

5pm. Rest. 6pm. Dinner. 7pm. Sleep. Even though my head was unbearable from the heat, the weight and the walk, I managed to get some rest.

NEXT DAY.

We woke up at about 1:30 am. Grabbed our stuff, put on a jacket and headlamps and started our walk to Chirripo. When starting out I remembered my camera didn’t have enough battery so Juan waited for me as the group continued. I ran back to the room. That moment when we were out there at 2 am, i glanced up and couldn’t accept what my eyes were looking at. I will just leave you with this image:

The Whole Milky Way!

Yes. The WHOLE Milky Way was on top of us. I just could not believe it. We stayed behind the group and managed to take plenty of long exposure images. WHAT A NIGHT! It was 3km from the Shelter to the Highest Peak, so we still had some way to go.

Finally the sun started rising in the horizon and we were almost at the top. 5 am and there was still a steep way up. We had to leave our jiking poles halfway because at this moment we were to use our hands for grabbing the rock.

5:15 am. We were on the top! I was the happiest person on Earth. The view was something out of this world. The sun was bathing my face with it’s morning glow and I was up there staring at it. Tears fell down my cheeks and and couldn’t stop smiling. The lakes, the volcanoes, the clouds, the Sun. We had the most beautiful treat I could have ever imagined having. We were blessed with that view.

The whole group with the view~

Look at the scale!~

Juan at the top!

This face resembles a lot of happiness, I promise!

The way down was also spectacular. I had never walked such an amazing landscape. It was like walking a painting. Juan and I got to the Shelter, had breakfast and slept for a couple of hours until we were ready to go down. This time we did not pay for Arrieros, so our bags weigh 12 kg each. It was going to be a tough way in the middle of the day, but we were super motivated knowing that we had such a show in the morning and we only had to go down.

Juan With the view

The view and I

Ready. Set. Go! 9am we were on our way. Music on our earphones and nothing was going to stop us. The whole scenery on our way down was also something to notice. it was beautiful. We only stopped at km 7 to re-fill with water, but from then on we knew there was no stopping. To finish it up, it started raining at km 4. This was a bit of a problem because I had a sweater and a towel strapped to my bag and couldn’t get it inside the backpack, so as it got wet, the bag got heavier. My ankles and my legs were moving on their own because I had little energy. I don’t know how I finally got down, but we did, and it was the happiest moment of all. It took us 4 hours to get down.

1pm. We had lunch at the Uran, grabbed everything and threw it in the car. Luckily Juan was the one who decided to drive. I had little to no movement on my legs.

We even stopped at the beach to get to know Dominical which I hadn’t visited, and then continued our way to the city. We were back at about 5 pm.

This was probably one of the most amazing hikes I’ve ever done, and if I have the chance, I will do it again this year for sure. I hope you can as well. The magic in this mountain is something nobody should miss experiencing. I have the treasure now, inside my chest, my lungs and my skin. This is what I was looking for.

Chirripó; the treasure mountain. There is nothing more amazing than the feeling you get when you get to see the sun bathing your face with it's morning light from the highest peak of your beautiful home country.

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