This post will be historical and biographical. And I can hear people saying , "Oh here goes for another story again!"
I was a middle school teacher who taught 37 years between 1958 and 1997. For a number of years I was assigned an outdoor education class. This meant teaching about weather, clothing, foods, safety, maps... Of course, we would do a couple of field trips to put things into practice.
Now my teaching partner and I liked to find good places for a trip. We'd driven by Windy Point Ridge for a few years and always looked up at it. So one weekend we decided to go up Windy Point Ridge and check it out. So these photos are from our first trip up the ridge to the peak. Now here's the history. These photos are from 1992. And yes, the area is still as beautiful as ever.
Going up the side of the bare rock ridge is steep. 75% of the time you can walk but at other times it's scrambling. (using hands)
The ridge is made up of three peaks and a couple of buckles joining the peaks.
To gain the highest peak we had to go around the back of it and it was an easy walk to the top. The cliff face was about 500 ft.
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| Crossing a buckle |
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| Keep on moving |
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| The top of the cliff is the orange rock in the front of the photo |
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| Will this guy ever get to the top? |
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| Going behind the peak to get to the top |
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| My turn to be on the peak |
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| Down below is Windy point and the highway. |
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| My partner on the edge of the cliff we could see on the way up. |
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| Scrambling Can you see the road beside the water? |
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| There's a small cairn at the top Well, after all that effort we decided that this was not a very good place to take middle school kids but we had a lot of fun climbing up the ridge.. |
