Mueller hut - Zeke’s version

Rainy day in Okinawa and we are going back in time to Zeke’s recollections of the Mueller hut. A glimpse into a 13 year old in the alpine:​

First me, Ty and dad started at a camp ground where we left mom, Mikaya and Levi, it started off as a long flight stairs that lasted 2000 steps In the first half. All the first half was stairs then we got to a very steep rocky trail, then it went to a big landslide we had to climb up that for a while, then it got to boulder hopping which was really fun! I listened to music the whole way up which made it way more fun for me. 

When we made it there it Was a huge party in there every single spot was taken up, dad started up some potato’s, curry, and Ramon on the stoves instead of eating it with everyone else we went to our tent to go eat it all by ourselves

After a guy told us we realized that these really cute birds called keas eat your tent, so as soon as we heard that Ty ran to protect our tent, so after that every single time we made food one of us had to protect it. One time I had to protect it and I had 3 of them all playing me, one of them would go on the back of the tent so I would go to the back of the tent to scare it off and as I did that another one would go on the front then they just kept repeating that. 

Then we watched the beautiful sunset, we had the top peak all to ourselves it was so beautiful! One of the best things I’ve ever seen. 

at 9:00pm dad found this guitar that a band from Spotify gave to the hut. He played it underneath the beautiful stars it was so pretty we all had to sleep in a tight 3man tent with a sleeping bag stuffed with clothes as our pillow, the next morning we woke up at 7:15 to go watch the beautiful sunrise we had the hut manager and 2 other girls at the top with us we stayed up there for a hour I think, we went down took down our tent so the keas won’t eat it when we went into the cooking area to make some hot chocolate and oatmeal, but we thought we would walk into a big breakfast party but turns out everyone left very early for some reason we were all so confused, it was only me, Ty, and dad and the hut guy, and 2other girls left.

We stayed until 10:00 and we saw a bunch of people hiking up for lunch, we started Down and we were way faster than dad we had to wait every 10-15 minutes, we got down in 2hours!