Hi guys,
I'm Kiely. I'm new here. I hope you guys can help me.
I need help achieve a dream. I know that most people are ambitious and want to climb famous mountains like Everest. But I've always had a fancy for the strange and obscure. Ever since I was young I wanted to climb the Tourngat Mountains. Why the Tourngats one might ask? Well, its kinda a strange thing, you see my ex-boyfriend was from New Foundland. I thought he was my soulmate, he thought he had a connection to the land, so by proxy I just assumed that this metaphysical connection to terra fima was transferrable. Anyway, a few years after I left him I had a dream one night that I was in a kayak off the coast there, at the base of Mt. Cornelius, ready to climb. It was so vivid, I could hear the clinking of my cowbells and taste the sea salt in the air. The problem was that I wanted it so bad but I simply could not have it. Access was limited because the shore was guarded by polar bears. I even remember the trace of blood dripping on their white fur from the last climber the ferrocious bears devoured. At first I thought it had some sort of Freudian interpretation, but then the more I thought about it, the more clear things became. Even Freud says that some times a cigar is just a cigar. As the days passed on, the meaning of the dream became more and more clear: I need to go climb the Tourngats.
But now I need help. I need something fun to do this winter on the east coast. How should I even begin to train for a climb of this nature? Any ideas guse? Like I said, I don't like famous moutains, so the thought of going to the whites does not hold much appeal. There's no point to the whites, you go, do a hike and be back to the bar by 6. I'm thinking of something more remote and ferrocious, minus the polar bears. Any ideas???
Thanks!!!!!!!!