hike

Today, we had to get up at 6:30 to get ready in order to leave at 7:30.
Connor set his alarm for 6:00 and it went off twice, which was very annoying because I was trying to sleep. Then later, around 6:30, he went and turned on my light, which was also annoying. I didn’t get out of bed until around 6:45 or so.
We left later then we planed, some time around eight.
Dad drove us out to Herring Cove, and we hiked up to a bench by a lake by Beaver lake.
We took a forest trail that went off the main trail from that bench, and not too far along that trail, I slipped and fell on my butt. I slipped about eight more times total after that. I also tripped and got scratched sometimes as well.
On the way up, a guy that was going hunting passed us, just after we saw a deer. Later we heard a gunshot, and sometime after we got out of the trees, we saw the guy was taking the bones out of the deer he’d shot.
Eventually, when we were out of the trees and sort of on the top, dad told me that we were on Bear Mountain.
We hiked for a while longer, I would take breaks.
I felt a bit better after I ate lunch, which was good.
Though, while we were eating lunch, it got cloudy and windy. Later it also started raining a little bit and continued on and off until we were back in the trees.
After lunch we wandered around for awhile.
While we were wandering, we saw two lakes that the snow was melting into. We stopped on a ridge near one of the lakes.
Not too long before we left, dad spotted some ptarmigan flying. We saw where they landed and Connor ran down to get some photos of them.
I almost liked coming up the mountain better than coming down because it was really steep on some parts.
I was glad when we made it back to the car.
Why was it raining up where we were, but not in town?
Where were the ptarmigan flying from?
Why was there still snow up on the mountain?