Met a hiker coming down the mountains as I was coming up. Unicorn named Proud Pinnacle, though she insisted on being called “Pinny”. Real enthusiastic about mountains; she practically shoved her tail in my face to show off her mountain cutie mark. I get that it makes you happy, but could you let me keep my space?
Barring that, she was actually quite nice, if prone to not shutting up. Just kept talking and talking. She said she was just coming down from Mt. Whinny, which was probably too hard for me, but if I wanted to go to the top of A mountain and didn’t care which one, I could go for that smaller one right over there (she didn’t name it). Might do that; I’m fairly close to it anyway. Really liked the view from the top of Foal Mountain, but this is on the other side of Equestria; might be able to see Canterlot, if I’m lucky.
The San Palomino Desert’s just on the other side of the Neighvada. And from there, it’s a straight shot home. A LONG straight shot, but one nonetheless. It’s weird, thinking I’m close to being done. Wonder what I’ll be doing then. Kind of feeling like I’ll be prone to wander a bit more, but I dunno. Maybe I’ll just plonk down, never leave town again, and have stories of that one time I went all around Equestria and it was AWESOME and now I’m all old and boring and don’t do stuff like that anymore. I dunno.
Feeling a little nervous about getting to the top of the mountain. Mountains and me don’t have the best history. I mean, I seriously think that something bad’s happened to me whenever I climbed a mountain. There was that hermit in the Macintosh Hills, getting stuck on that cliff on Foal Mountain, the manticore in the Unicorn Range… Am I forgetting something? Probably. But I don’t feel like thinking too much about it now.
At mountain ranges, I gain
Nothing but a great deal of pain.
It all goes downhill
In them. Yet I still
Go through them again and again.
Sounds kind of awkward, but I’m tired. Don’t want to do any more work on it.
Wait. “Downhill”? Ugh. Unintentional puns are the worst.